Charles facts for kids
Charles is a boy's name of German origin. There are many famous people named Charles:
- Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer
- Charles Babbage, English inventor
- Charles Barkley, American basketball player
- Charles Blanvillain, French rapper
- Charles Bronson, American actor
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Charles Chaplin, American actor
- Charles Chesnutt, American author
- Charles Colson, American lawyer
- Charles Cornwallis, British general and politician
- Charles Court, Australian politician
- Charles Curtis, Vice-President of the United States
- Charles Darwin, who came up with the theory of evolution
- Charles G. Dawes, Nobel Laureate and Vice-President of the United States
- Charles Ellis, English physicist
- Charles de Gaulle, French general and President
- Charles Dickens, English author
- Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Charles Foster, Ohio Congressman
- Charles Gounod, French composer
- Charles Hendry, British MP
- Charles Higounet, French historian
- Charles Hoare, English computer scientist
- Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Charles Ives, American composer
- Charles Lindbergh, American pilot
- Charles Lummis, American author and historian
- Charles-Louis Montesquieu, French philosopher
- Charles Spurgeon, British preacher
- Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racecar driver
- Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist
- Charles Frederick Worth, fashion designer
Rulers and noblemen named Charles
- Charles I of England, King of England, 1625-49
- Charles II of England, King of England, 1660-85
- Charles IV of France, King of France, 1322-28
- Charles I of Spain, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-58
- Charles IV of Spain, King of Spain 1788-1808
- Charles, Duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV
- Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman
- Charles Edward Stuart, a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobin pretender
- Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675
- Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia 1730-1773
- Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, King of Sardinia 1796-1802
- Charles Felix of Sardinia, King of Sardinia 1821-1831
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British PM
- Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne
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