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Charles Lee (general)
Charles Lee (1731/1732-1782), British-born soldier of fortune and Continental Army major general, second in command under Washington; captured in 1776, disgraced by the Monmouth court-martial of 1778, dismissed in 1780.
Charles Lee Burton
Charles Lee "Sonny" Burton, Alabama death row inmate convicted under the felony murder doctrine for the 1991 Talladega AutoZone robbery killing of Doug Battle, though Derrick DeBruce fired the shot; Governor Kay Ivey commuted his sentence to life without parole on March 10, 2026.
Charles Lucien Gautier
Charles Lucien Gautier (Lucien Charles Gautier-Hentsch, 1850–1924) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and Semitic scholar who held the Old Testament chair in Lausanne and translated al-Ghazali into French.
Charles Lwanga
Charles Lwanga (Kaloli Lwanga), Ugandan Catholic martyr and chief of the royal pages under King Mwanga II of Buganda, burned at Namugongo 3 June 1886; beatified 1920, canonized 1964 among the twenty-two Uganda Martyrs, patron of African youth.
Charles M. Blow
Charles M. Blow, born 1970 in Louisiana, is an American journalist and commentator, former New York Times visual op-ed columnist and graphics director, author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones and The Devil You Know, now Harvard's inaugural Langston Hughes Fellow.
Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939) was an American steel executive who rose from laborer to president of Carnegie Steel, then built Bethlehem Steel into a giant.
Charles Manners Sutton
Charles Manners Sutton (Charles Manners-Sutton, 1755–1828) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828, a favorite of George III whose primacy saw the National Society founded and the Additional Churches Act of 1818.
Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby
Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby (1754–1787), 4th Duke of Rutland and Pitt's first Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1784–1787), friend and patron of William Pitt the younger; managed the failed 1785 commercial propositions, died in Dublin aged 33.
Charles Manson
Charles Manson (1934–2017), American cult leader of the Manson Family, convicted of ordering nine 1969 murders including Sharon Tate's; death sentences commuted to life in 1972; died at Corcoran State Prison.
Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel
Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel (1635–1685), French diplomat and Louis XIV's ambassador to the Ottoman Porte 1670–1679; renewed the Capitulations in 1673, toured the Aegean with Antoine Galland, and built a noted cabinet of curiosities.
Charles Martel
Charles Martel (c. 689–741), illegitimate son of Pepin d'Heristal, Frankish mayor of the palace 715–741, victor over Abd al-Rahman at Tours-Poitiers (732/3) and confiscator of Church lands; founder-figure of the Carolingian dynasty, never king.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) was a French bishop-turned-diplomat who served six regimes and four terms as foreign minister, splitting the allies at the Congress of Vienna and securing France's 1792 borders.
Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (1785–1846), was an East India Company administrator who negotiated the 1809 treaty with Ranjit Singh and acted as provisional Governor-General of India.
Charles Michel
Charles Michel (born 1975, Namur) is a Belgian MR liberal, Prime Minister of Belgium 2014-2019 and third President of the European Council, 1 December 2019 to 30 November 2024, succeeded by António Costa.
Charles Milliard
Charles Milliard, Quebec pharmacist-business executive, is the 17th leader of the Parti libéral du Québec since February 2026, elected by acclamation after Pablo Rodriguez's resignation; former FCCQ CEO; led Liberals in the October 5, 2026 election.
Charles Mimouni
Charles Mimouni is a French physician and founding president of Medadom, a Paris-based teleconsultation company founded in 2017 that places teleconsultation devices in pharmacies and was the first approved by the French Ministry of Health.
Charles Moldow
Charles Moldow is a General Partner at Foundation Capital who has invested in financial technology startups since 2005, best known as an early backer of LendingClub.
Charles Momsen
Charles "Swede" Momsen (1896–1967), U.S. Navy vice admiral, invented the Momsen lung submarine escape device (1928), co-developed the submarine rescue chamber, and led the 1939 rescue of 33 survivors from USS Squalus.
Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham
Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, is an English journalist and author who wrote the three-volume authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher and became a non-affiliated peer in 2020.
Charles Munger Jr.
Charles Munger Jr., Palo Alto physicist and Republican donor, son of Berkshire Hathaway's Charles Munger Sr.; funded California's independent redistricting commission and top-two primary, and led $33 million opposition to 2025's Proposition 50.
Charles Murray (political scientist)
Charles Murray (born 1943) is an American libertarian political scientist at AEI, author of Losing Ground (1984) and The Bell Curve (1994, with Richard Herrnstein), works on welfare, IQ, and class that drew major controversy.
Charles Mzingeli
Charles Mzingeli (1905–1980) was a Zimbabwean labor activist and politician whose Reformed Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union dominated African urban politics in Salisbury, now Harare, from 1945 to the early 1950s.
Charles Nerinckx
Charles Nerinckx (1761–1824) was a Belgian-born Catholic missionary priest who spent nineteen years as a circuit missionary in Kentucky and founded the Sisters of Loretto in 1812.
Charles Newhall III
Charles Newhall III, known as Chuck Newhall, is an American venture capitalist who co-founded New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 1977 and retired from the firm in 2012.
Charles Ng (吴志达)
Charles Chitat Ng (吴志达), born 1960 in Hong Kong, is an American death-row murderer who with Leonard Lake killed at least 11 adults and two children in California in 1984-1985; convicted 1999, affirmed 2022.
Charles Njonjo
Charles Mugane Njonjo was a Kenyan lawyer and politician, the first Attorney General of independent Kenya from 1963 to 1980, later Minister for Constitutional Affairs under President Moi.
Charles of Blois-Châtillon
Charles of Blois-Châtillon (Charles de Blois, 1319–1364), duke of Brittany by marriage to Jeanne de Penthièvre and French recognition, killed at Auray; canonization proclaimed in 1376.
Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood (Charles Osgood Wood III, 1933-2024), American CBS broadcast journalist; anchored CBS Sunday Morning 1994-2016 and wrote The Osgood File radio commentaries for nearly 46 years.
Charles P. Kindleberger
Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003) was an American economist and economic historian at MIT, a leading architect of the Marshall Plan, and author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes.
Charles P. Kocoras
Charles P. Kocoras, born in Chicago in 1938, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.