This time in “First Names First” one of the most popular male names ever - Charles. Also the nickname derived from it, Charlie.
Below you can see the list of these particular first names. Pick at least one of them, then follow the Wikipedia link to read about that person, and see what if anything he could contribute your life with. Inspiration, passion, enlightenment, encouragement, empathy, etc. Or just thoughts for the day. Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived may all have something worthwhile to tell us – let them!
Charles IV* (b Wenceslaus) Holy Roman Emperor – Prague (1316)
King Charles VII of France* “Charles the Victorious” – Paris, France (1403)
Charles VIII of Sweden* (b Karl Knutsson) – Ekholmen Castle, Uppsala, Sweden (1409) The birth year could also be 1408.
Charles V* Holy Roman Emperor – Ghent, Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands (1500)
Charles Lallemant* jesuit missionary – Paris, Kingdom of France (1587)
Charles Garnier* (B) Jesuit missionary in New France – Paris, France (1606)
King Charles XI of Sweden* Tre Kronor, Stockholm, Sweden (1655)
Charles Rollin* historian/educator – Paris, France (1661)
Charles Bridges* (B) painter/ missionary – Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, England (1672)
Charles Collé* dramatist/songwriter – Paris, France (1709)
Charles-Nicolas Cochin* engraver/ designer/writer – Paris, France (1715)
Charles-Rene Dejordy de Villebon* French-Canadian explorer – Saint-Sulpice, QC (1715)
Charles III of Spain* King of Spain (1759-1788) – Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Spain (1716)
Charles De Geer* industrialist/entomologist – Finspång, Sweden (1720)
Charles Bonnet* naturalist/ philosophical writer – Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1720)
Charles Messier* astronomer/publisher – Badonviller, France (1730)
Charles Michel* marquis de Villette/writer/politician – Paris, France (1736)
Charles Carroll* planter/ politician/signer of the Declaration of Independence – Annapolis, Maryland, British America (1737)
Charles IV of Spain* King of Spain (1788-1808) – Palace of Portici, Naples (1748)
Charles X of France* King of France (1824 -1830) – Palace of Versailles, France (1757)
Charles XIV John of Sweden* (b Jean Bernadotte) King of Sweden (1818-1844)/the first in the line of Bernadottes – Pau, Bearn, Kingdom of France (1763)
Charles Bulfinch* architect – Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1763)
Charles Grey* 2nd Earl Grey/PM/gave name to Earl Grey Tea – Fallodon, Northumberland, England (1764)
Charles Hatchett* chemist/mineralogist – Chelsea, London, England (1765)
Charles Tennant* chemist/industrialist/discovered bleaching powder – Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland (1768)
Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont* general/military governor of French Algeria – Chaumont, France (1783)
Charles Edward Horn* composer/singer – St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England (1786)
Charles Babbage* polymath/inventor/originated the concept of a digital programmable computer – London, England (1791)
Charles Lock Eastlake* painter/ gallery director/writer – Plymouth, Devon, England (1793)
Charles Poulett Thomson* 1st Baron Sydenham/businessman/ diplomat and the first Governor General of the united Province of Canada – Waverley Abbey, Farnham, England (1799)
Charles Knowlton* physician/atheist/writer – Templeton, Massachusetts USA (1800)
Charles Goodyear* chemist/inventor of vulganized rubber – New Haven, CT USA (1800)
Charles Wheatstone* scientist/inventor – Barnwood, Gloucestershire, England (1802)
Charles Darwin* naturalist/ biologist – Shrewsbury, Shropshire England (1809)
Charles Sumner* politician/powerful orator – Boston, MA USA (1811)
Charles Dickens* author/social critic – Landport, Hampshire England (1812)
Charles Lewis Tiffany* jewelry trader/founder of New York City’s Tiffany & Co – Killingly, CT USA (1812)
Charles-Francois Gounod* composer – Paris, France (1818)
Charles Baudelaire* poet/translator – Paris, France (1821)
Charles Blondin* tightrope walker – St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France (1824)
Charles Frederick Worth* pioneering fashion designer – Bourne, Lincolnshire, England (1825)
Charles Lecocq* composer – Paris, France (1832)
Charles Spurgeon* preacher/”Prince of Preachers” – Kelvedon, Essex, England (1834)
Charles Ingalls* farmer/ carpenter/father or Laura – Cuba, New York USA (1836)
Charles J. Guiteau* assassin of U.S.President James A. Garfield – Freeport, IL USA (1841)
Charles Albert Gobat* lawyer/educational administrator/ politician/N – Tramelan, Switzerland (1843)
Charles-Émile Reynaud* inventor/pioneer in animated films – Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France (1844)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran* physician/N – Paris, France (1845)
Charles Stewart Parnell* nationalist political leader – Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland (1846)
Charles Richet* physiologist/ immunologist/N – Paris, France (1850)
Charles Dow* journalist/co-founder of Dow Jones & Company – Sterling, CT USA (1851)
Charles Sumner Tainter* engineer/scientific instrument maker/inventor – Watertown, MA USA (1854)
Charles Wacker* businessman/ Chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission/ philanthropist – Chicago, IL USA (1856)
Charles E. Rushmore* businessman – New York, NY USA (1857)
Charles Martin Loeffler* German-American violinist/composer – Mulhouse. Alsace, Germany (1861)
Charles Édouard Guillaume* physicist/N – Fleurier, Switzerland (1861)
Charles Chaplin Sr.* music hall entertainer – Marylebone, London, England (1863)
Charles Martin Hall* chemist/inventor/businessman – Thompson, OH USA (1863)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson* physicist/N – Glencorse, Scotland (1869)
Charles Rudolph Walgreen* founder of Walgreens/son of Swedish immigrants – Knoxville, IL USA (1873)
Charles Hatfield* rainmaker – Fort Scott, KS USA (1875)
Charles Keck* sculptor – New York City, NY USA (1875)
Charles Barkla* physicist/N – Widnes, Lancashire, England (1877)
Charles Rolls* co-founder of Rolls-Royce – Berkeley Square, London, England (1877)
Charles Ponzi* swindler/con artist – Lugo, Italy (1882)
Charles “Charlie” Chaplin* actor – Walworth, London, England (1889) pic
Charles de Gaulle* politician – Lille, France (1890)
Charles A. Levine* scrap metal millionaire/ the first passenger aboard a transatlantic flight – North Adams, MA USA (1897)
Charles Laughton* actor – Scarborough, Yorkshire England (1899)
Charles Francis Richter* seismologist/inventor – Overbeck, OH USA (1900)
Charles Lindbergh* aviator/ author/activist – Detroit, MI USA (1902)
Charles J. Pedersen* American organic chemist/N – Busan, Korea (1904)
Charles Schepens* pioneering ophthalmologist – Mouscron, Belgium (1912)
Charles Scorsese* actor/father of Martin Scorsese – New York City, NY USA (1913)
Charles H. Townes* physicist/N – Greenville, SC USA (1915)
Charles Hornig* editor/one of the earliest contributors to the science fiction genre – Jersey City, NJ USA (1916)
Charles Bronson* actor – Ehrenfeld, PA USA (1921)
Charles M. Schulz* cartoonist – Minneapolis, MN USA (1922)
Charles Durning* actor – Highland Falls, NY USA (1923)
Charles Aznavour* singer/ activist/diplomat – Paris, France (1924)
Charles J. Urstadt* real estate executive/ investor/co-developer of Battery Park City – Manhattan, NY USA (1928)
Charles K. Kao* electrical engineer/physicist/N – Shanghai, Republic of China (1933)
Charles Manson* criminal cult leader – Cincinnati, OH USA (1934)
Charles Duke* astronaut/10Moon1972 – Charlotte, NC USA (1935)
Charles Dance* actor – Redditch, Worcestershire, England (1946)
Charles S. Dutton* actor/director – Baltimore, MD USA (1951)
Charles Leclerc* racing driver – Monte Carlo, Monaco (1997)
Updated 10.6.2021