Famous People with Name Charles

Charles L. "Chas" Halsted            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles L. "Chas" Halsted: was a Minnesota politician, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate in Minnesota's 1948 gubernatorial election. Halsted served as town clerk in Brainerd, Minnesota, and worked as a grocer. He was

Charles Clifton "Cliff" Finch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Clifton "Cliff" Finch: was an American politician who was 56th Governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980. Finch entered politics and was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1960. He was elected district attorney for the Seventeenth judicial

Charles Gustav Binderup            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Gustav Binderup: was a Nebraska Democratic politician.He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1939, but failed to be reelected in 1938. He ran as an Independent for the Seventy-seventh Congress but

Charles Henry Sloan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Henry Sloan: was a Nebraska Republican politician.He started practice in Fairmont but then moved to Geneva, Nebraska in 1891. He became the director of the Geneva State Bank and then the prosecuting attorney of Fillmore County from 1890 to 1894.He was elected to the s

Charles Robley Evans            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Robley Evans: was a United States Representative from Nevada. He was a Democrat and served only one term.

Kenneth M. Charles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth M. Charles: is a retired Trinidadian and Tobagonian basketball player who played guard for the Buffalo Braves (1973-76) and Atlanta Hawks (1976-78). He was a 6'3" (1.90 m), 180 lb (82 kg) guard.In 5 seasons he played in 322 games and played 7,637 minutes (23.7 per game), had a .441 field goal percentage (1,083 for 2,458), .789 free throw percentage (581 for 736), 640 rebounds (2.0 per game), 806 assists (2.5 per game), 407 steals (1.3 per game), 128 blocked shots (.4 per game) and 2,747 points (8.5 per game).

Lorenzo Emile Charles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lorenzo Emile Charles: is an American former college and professional basketball player.Charles is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. While playing for the North Carolina State University Wolfpack, Charles scored the game-winning dunk in the championship game of the 1983 NCAA Tournament over the heavily favored Houston Cougars led by Akeem Olajuwon, Clyde "The Glide" Drexler and the rest of Phi Slama Jama. Coincidentally, Charles would go on to play for a Cougars team years later — for the United States Basketball League's Raleigh Cougars.

Joshua Aaron Charles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joshua Aaron Charles: an American stage, film and television actor.Charles' film debut was in fellow Baltimore resident John Waters’s Hairspray in 1988. The following year, he starred alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in the Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society. Subsequent film roles have included Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Threesome, Pie in the Sky, Muppets from Space, S.W.A.T and Four Brothers.

Grégory Charles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Grégory Charles: a Quebec performing artist of Trinidadian origin.At the age of 7, he won the national Canadian piano contest, after which he performed with most of the country's symphonic orchestras. In 1979, he represented Canada at an international piano contest in Par

Bobby Charles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bobby Charles: is an American singer and songwriter.An ethnic Cajun, Charles grew up listening to Cajun music and the country and western music of Hank Williams. At the age of 15, he heard a performance by Fats Domino, an event that "changed my life forever," he recalle