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Charles Palmerston Anderson
Charles Palmerston Anderson was a Canadian-born Episcopal clergyman, Bishop of Chicago from 1900 until 1929 and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from November 1929 until his death in January 1930.
Charles Payne (television personality)
Charles Payne is an American financial commentator and television host of Making Money on Fox Business, and founder of the stock research firm Wall Street Strategies.
Charles Pelot Summerall
Charles Pelot Summerall (1867-1955), American general and Army Chief of Staff 1926-1930, commanded the 1st Division and V Corps in World War I France and later served as president of The Citadel, 1931-1953.
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French writer and Louis XIV civil servant whose 1697 Histoires ou contes du temps passé, or Tales of Mother Goose, published under his son's name, established the literary fairy tale.
Charles Perry (Texas politician)
Charles Perry is an American politician and certified public accountant who has served as a Republican Texas senator for District 28 since 2014, after two terms in the Texas House.
Charles Plott
Charles Plott is an American experimental economist at Caltech who founded its experimental economics laboratory in the 1970s and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
Charles Ponzi
Charles Ponzi, born Carlo Ponzi, was an Italian-born swindler whose Boston company took in about $9.6 million from thousands of investors in 1920, giving the Ponzi scheme its name.
Charles Porterfield Krauth
Charles Porterfield Krauth (1823–1883) was an American Lutheran theologian, pastor, and editor who led the confessional revival, founded the General Council in 1867, and wrote The Conservative Reformation (1871).
Charles Q. Brown Jr.
Charles Q. Brown Jr. (born 1962) is a retired USAF general, 22nd Air Force chief of staff (2020, first Black service chief) and 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (2023-2025), fired by Trump in February 2025.
Charles R. Breyer
Charles R. Breyer, born in 1941 in San Francisco, is a senior federal district judge in Northern California appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997, known for ruling against the 2025 National Guard deployment in Los Angeles.
Charles R. Butler, Jr.
Charles R. Butler, Jr., also known as Charles Randolph Butler, Jr., is a US district judge in Alabama, appointed by Reagan in 1988 and chief judge from 1994 to 2003.
Charles R. Eskridge III
Charles R. Eskridge III (born 1963) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Houston since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Charles R. Nelson
Charles R. Nelson is an American economist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, known for the Nelson-Plosser unit-root findings, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, and the Nelson-Siegel yield curve model.
Charles R. Norgle, Sr.
Charles R. Norgle, Sr., born Charles Ronald Norgle, Sr. in 1937, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Illinois from 1984 to 2022.
Charles R. Schwab
Charles Robert Schwab is an American businessman who founded discount brokerage Charles Schwab & Co. in 1971, pioneering low-cost trading, and remains Co-Chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation.
Charles R. Simpson III
Charles R. Simpson III is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Kentucky since 2013, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Charles R. Wilson
Charles R. Wilson (born 1954) is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel (1930–2025), Harlem Democrat and 'Lion of Lenox Avenue,' served 46 years in the U.S. House, founded the Congressional Black Caucus, and was the first African American chair of Ways and Means before a 2010 censure.
Charles Ray Crawford
Charles Ray Crawford, Mississippi death row inmate executed October 15, 2025, for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Kristy Ray; his McCoy v. Louisiana claim was denied by the Supreme Court.
Charles Renouvier
Charles Renouvier (1815–1903) was a French philosopher, founder of neo-criticism, a revised Kantianism rejecting the thing-in-itself; he never held an academic post yet influenced William James.
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 36 U.S. 420 (1837), also called Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge, a Supreme Court Contract Clause case: Taney held charters grant nothing by implication, allowing a competing free bridge.
Charles Robert Jenkins
Charles Robert Jenkins, US Army sergeant born 1940 in Rich Square, North Carolina, who deserted across the Korean DMZ in January 1965, spent nearly 40 years in North Korea as a propaganda figure, married abductee Hitomi Soga, and faced court martial in Japan in 2004.
Charles Rodman Campbell
Charles Rodman Campbell, murderer executed by hanging in Washington on May 27, 1994, for the 1982 Clearview killings of Renae Wicklund, her daughter Shannah, and Barbara Hendrickson; his case was Washington's last judicial hanging.
Charles Rothschild
Charles Rothschild, also known as Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, was a British banker and naturalist who founded the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves in 1912.
Charles Ryu
Charles Ryu (Cheol Ryu, born 1994) is a North Korean defector who escaped twice as a teen, resettled in the US, and became a Westmont College developer and founder of the Freedom Bridge Foundation.
Charles S. Haight, Jr.
Charles S. Haight, Jr., also known as Charles Sherman Haight, Jr., is an American jurist and senior federal district judge in New York, appointed in 1976.
Charles S. Spencer
Charles S. Spencer is an American anthropological archaeologist, Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, known for research on how chiefdoms and early states formed.
Charles Sabini
Charles "Darby" Sabini (1888–1951), real name Ottavio Sabini, led the Anglo-Italian Sabini gang of Clerkenwell's Little Italy, dominating London racecourse protection rackets in the 1920s before internment in 1940.
Charles Schmid
Charles Schmid (Charles Howard Schmid Jr., 1942–1975), the "Pied Piper of Tucson", was an American murderer who killed three teenage girls near Tucson, Arizona, in 1964–1965, was sentenced to death in 1966, and died after a 1975 inmate stabbing.
Charles Schwab Corporation
The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American brokerage company serving individual investors and independent investment advisors, holding $13.08 trillion in client assets and 39.8 million brokerage accounts in 2026.