Charles

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 Spains, King of Spain 1788-1808 
 Charles, Duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV
 Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman
 Charles I of Austria , final monarch of AUSTROHUNGARIAN KINGDOM
 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