Top Celebrity Names Starting With Charles

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   Charles B. Rangel

   Age 82 Male
   

   Recipient of the Purple Heart and Politician

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   Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the third-longest currently serving member of the House of Representatives. As its most senior member, he is also the Dean of New York's congressional delegation. In January 2007, Rangel became Chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the first African-American to do so. He is also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.… read more

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   Charles Barkley

   Age 49 Male
   

   Basketball Player

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   Charles Wade Barkley is a former American professional basketball player and current analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's (NBA's) most dominating power forwards. He was selected to the All-NBA First Team five times, the All-NBA Second Team five times, and once to the All-NBA Third Team.… read more

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   Charles Busch

   Age 57 Female
   

   Actor, Scriptwriter, Dramatist

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   Charles Louis Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote and starred in his early plays Off-off-Broadway beginning in 1978, generally in drag roles, and also acted in the works of other playwrights. He also wrote for television and began to act in films and on television in the late 1990s.… read more

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   Charles Kennedy

   Age 52 Male
   

   Politician

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   Charles Peter Kennedy is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency. In the 1983 General Election he stood for the Ross, Cromarty & Skye constituency, then held by the Conservative MP and Minister, Hamish Gray.… read more

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   Charles Dickens

   1812 - 1870 Male
   

   Novelist

   
   

   Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.. During his lifetime Dickens' works enjoyed unprecedented popularity and fame, and they remain popular today. It was in the twentieth century, however, that his literary genius was fully recognized by critics and scholars.… read more

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   Charles Aznavour

   Age 88 Male
   

   Singer

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   Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world. Charles Aznavour is known for his unique tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes.… read more

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   Charles Haughey

   1925 - 2006 Male
   

   Politician, Taoiseach

   
   

   Charles James "Charlie" Haughey was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office (from December 1979 to June 1981, March 1982 to December 1982, and March 1987 to February 1992). He was also the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil (from 1979 until 1992). Haughey was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin North–East in 1957, and was re-elected in each election until 1992.… read more

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   Charles de Gaulle

   1890 - 1970 Male
   

   Politician

   
   
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   Charles Barron

   Age 61 Male
   

   Politician, Teacher

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   Charles Barron is a Democratic politician who represents the 42nd District of New York City in the New York City Council. He is a former Black Panther with staunch beliefs in affirmative action, reparations for slavery, Ebonics training for teachers, and a dislike of capitalism. Barron led protests and community activism in the East New York section of Brooklyn in the 1980s. He transitioned into elected office in 1997 at the urging of his supporters in East New York.… read more

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    Charles Manson

    Age 77 Male
    

    Convict Who Led the "manson Family"

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    Charles Mathias

    1922 - 2010 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias, Jr. was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1969 to 1987. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1960, and of the United States House of Representatives, representing the of Maryland from 1961 to 1969. After studying law and serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Mathias worked as a lawyer and was elected to the state legislature in 1958.… read more

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    Charles Sanders Peirce

    1839 - 1914 Male
    

    Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist

    
    

    Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.… read more

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    Charles Lindbergh

    1902 - 1974 Male
    

    Aviator

    
    

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh (nicknamed "Slim", "Lucky Lindy", and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States and the Americas. In March 1932, however, his infant son, Charles, Jr.… read more

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    Charles Colson

    Age 80 Male
    

    Former Special Counsel For President Richard Nixon

    
    

    Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson is a Christian leader, cultural commentator, and former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He was commonly named as one of the Watergate Seven, and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg.… read more

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    Charles Mingus

    1922 - 1979 Male
    

    Bassist

    
    

    Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist. Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet Mingus avoided categorization, forging his own brand of music that fused tradition with unique and unexplored realms of jazz.… read more

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    Charles Darwin

    1809 - 1882 Male
    

    Natural History

    
    

    Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.… read more

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    Charles Taylor

    Age 64 Male
    

    Politician, Guerrilla

    
    

    Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor was the 22nd President of Liberia, serving from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003. Born in Arthington, Montserrado County, Liberia, Taylor earned a degree at Bentley College in the United States before returning to Liberia to work in the government of Samuel Doe. After being removed for embezzlement, he eventually arrived in Libya, where he was trained as a guerilla fighter.… read more

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    Charles I of England

    1600 - 1649 Male
    

    King of England and Ireland

    
    

    Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649, and is a saint in the Church of England. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained.… read more

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    Charles B. Pierce

    1938 - 2010 Male
    

    Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Set Decorator, Cinematographer, and Actor

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    Charles B. Pierce was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, set decorator, cinematographer and actor, and is considered one of the first independent filmmakers. Pierce directed thirteen films over the span of 26 years, but is best known for his cult hits The Legend of Boggy Creek (1973) and The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976). Pierce was born in Hammond, Indiana, but moved to Arkansas early in his childhood.… read more

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    Charles Burnett

    Age 68 Male
    

    Film Maker, Writer, Editor

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    Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother's Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007) He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series.… read more

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    Charles Scott

    1749 - 1813 Male
    

    Politician and General

    
    

    Charles Scott was an 18th century American soldier who was elected the fourth governor of Kentucky in 1808. Orphaned at an early age, Scott enlisted in the Virginia Regiment in October 1755 and served as a scout and escort during the French and Indian War. He quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a captain by the end of the war.… read more

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    Charles Keating

    Age 88 Male
    

    Lawyer, Banker, Financier

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    Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. is an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, and financier, most known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s. Keating was a champion swimmer for the University of Cincinnati in the 1940s. From the late 1950s through the 1970s, he was a noted anti-pornography crusader, founding decency organizations and serving as a dissenting member on the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.… read more

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    Charles Sumner

    1811 - 1874 Male
    

    Abolitionist and Politician

    
    
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    Charles III of Spain

    1716 - 1788 Male
    

    King of Spain

    
    

    Charles III was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788. He was the eldest son of Philip V of Spain and his second wife, the Princess Elisabeth Farnese. In 1731, the fifteen-year-old Charles became the Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I, at the death of his childless great uncle Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma.… read more

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    Charles Bukowski

    1920 - 1994 Male
    

    Novelist, Poet

    
    

    Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work.… read more