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Charles Schwertner
Charles Schwertner is an American politician and practicing orthopedic surgeon, a Republican Texas senator for District 5 since 2013 who chairs the Business and Commerce Committee.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons was a New York publishing house founded in 1846, one of the leading American literary houses before becoming a Simon & Schuster imprint.
Charles Secretan
Charles Secretan, born Charles Gabriel Rodolphe Secrétan, was a Swiss Protestant philosopher and professor at Lausanne, known for his 1849 work La philosophie de la liberté.
Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj, "The Serpent" and "Bikini Killer", French serial killer born 1944 in Saigon; drugged and robbed Western backpackers on the 1970s Hippie Trail, convicted of murder in India and Nepal, freed from Nepal in December 2022 and deported to France.
Charles Spearman
Charles Spearman (1863–1945) was a British psychologist who founded the statistical study of human intelligence, originated factor analysis, proposed the g theory of general intelligence, and led the London school at University College London.
Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871-1934), called Sunny, owner of Blenheim Palace from 1892; married Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1896, whose money restored Blenheim, and later Gladys Deacon.
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (born 1964), British historian, broadcaster, and younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales; delivered her 1997 funeral eulogy, owns Althorp, and wrote A Very Private School and Swan Song.
Charles Sporck
Charles E. Sporck (1927-2024) was an American semiconductor executive who built National Semiconductor from near bankruptcy into a billion-dollar chip company as CEO from 1967 to 1991.
Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), known as the "Prince of Preachers", was an English Baptist preacher who pastored London's Metropolitan Tabernacle from 1861 and led the Downgrade Controversy of 1887–88.
Charles Stanford
Charles Stanford (1823–1886) was an English Baptist minister and devotional author, pastor in turn at Loughborough, Devizes, and Denmark Place Chapel, Camberwell, and a writer of biographical and devotional works.
Charles Stanish
Charles Stanish is an American archaeologist of the Andes who spent most of his career at UCLA, directing the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology from 2001 to 2016.
Charles Stanley
Charles Stanley, born Charles Frazier Stanley, was an American Southern Baptist pastor, senior pastor of First Baptist Atlanta for five decades and founder of In Touch Ministries.
Charles Stark Draper Prize
The Charles Stark Draper Prize, also known as the Draper Prize, is a biennial $500,000 award from the National Academy of Engineering, often called the Nobel Prize of engineering.
Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather (1938-1959), Lincoln, Nebraska spree killer who with girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate murdered 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1957-58; executed in the electric chair June 25, 1959.
Charles Stewart Mott
Charles Stewart Mott (1875–1973) was an American industrialist who built Weston-Mott into the world's largest axle maker and served 60 years on General Motors' board.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891), Anglo-Irish Protestant landlord and Irish nationalist leader, led the Irish Parliamentary Party and Land League, won balance-of-power status in 1885, backed Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill, and fell in the 1890 O'Shea divorce case.
Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican abolitionist, caned on the Senate floor in 1856 after his Crime Against Kansas speech; later championed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Charles Sweeney
Charles W. Sweeney (1919–2006), American Air Force major general, piloted Bockscar on the Nagasaki atomic mission of August 9, 1945, and flew the instrument plane on the Hiroshima raid; later led the 102nd Tactical Fighter Wing.
Charles Sydnor (Maryland politician)
Charles E. Sydnor III is an American Democratic politician, a Maryland State Senator for the 44th district since 2020 who earlier served in the House of Delegates from 2015 to 2020.
Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)
Charles Taylor, Liberian politician and NPFL warlord, president 1997-2003, backed Sierra Leone's RUF in an arms-for-diamonds trade, and in 2012 became the first former head of state since Nuremberg convicted of war crimes, serving 50 years in the UK.
Charles Taylor (philosopher)
Charles Taylor (born 1931, Montreal) is a Canadian philosopher, McGill professor emeritus and Oxford Chichele Professor, known for Hegel (1975), Sources of the Self, A Secular Age, communitarian critique of Rawls, the politics of recognition, deep diversity, and the Bouchard-Taylor Commission; Templeton, Kyoto, Kluge, and Berggruen laureate.
Charles Taze Russell
Charles Taze Russell, known as Pastor Russell, was an American preacher who led the Bible Student movement from the 1870s and founded the International Bible Students Association.
Charles Templeton
Charles Bradley Templeton (1915-2001), Canadian evangelist, broadcaster, editor, and author; co-founded Youth for Christ International with Billy Graham, led the Toronto Star and CTV news, co-hosted Dialogue, and later wrote Farewell to God rejecting his faith.
Charles Thau
Charles Thau, born Chaim Thau, was a Jewish partisan from Poland who fought at the Battle of Berlin and is the Soviet soldier at the center of the 1945 Elbe handshake photograph.
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald (823–877), youngest son of Louis the Pious, King of West Francia 843–877 and Carolingian Emperor 875–877; won Fontenay 841, gained the western third at the Treaty of Verdun 843, and took the imperial title in 875.
Charles the Bold
Charles the Bold (Charles le Téméraire, 1433–1477), last Valois duke of Burgundy (1467–1477), sought a sovereign state between France and Germany; defeated by the Swiss at Grandson and Morat, killed at Nancy 1477.
Charles the Fat
Charles the Fat, or Charles III, was a great-grandson of Charlemagne who briefly reunited the Frankish empire before being deposed in 887, marking a major end to Carolingian authority.
Charles the Simple
Charles the Simple (Charles III, 879–929), Carolingian king of West Francia from 893/898, made the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte with Rollo, creating Normandy; deposed 922, imprisoned, died 929.
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
Charles Theodore (Karl Theodor, 1724–1799), Wittelsbach Elector Palatine from 1742 and Elector of Bavaria 1777–1799; his accession triggered the War of the Bavarian Succession, and he patronized the Mannheim court of muses.
Charles Thomas Longley
Charles Thomas Longley (1794–1868) was an Anglican bishop who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death, and convened the first Lambeth Conference in 1867.