Famous People with Name Charles

Charles Wesley Walls            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Wesley Walls: is a former American football tight end who played 14 seasons in the National Football League.Walls' ability at Pontotoc High earned him a scholarship to the University of Mississippi. He actually played defensive end for three years, but became a linebacker in his senior year. In addition, he played tight end.

Charles Wade Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Wade Wilson: is a former American football quarterback who played for the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys and the Oakland Raiders in a seventeen year career from 1981 to 1998 in the National Football League. He is currently the Quarterbacks Coach for the Dallas Cowboys.

Charles White            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles White: is a former professional American football running back. He had a distinguished college career and later played in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns and the Los Angeles Rams.

Charles Edward Barnes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Edward Barnes: is a former football end in the American Football League for the Dallas Texans. He played college football at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and was drafted in the eighth round of the 1961 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. Barnes was also drafted in the nineteenth round of the 1961 AFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills.

Charles Elmer Collett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Elmer Collett: a Fire Fighter with the Kentfield Fire District and former professional American football player.

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

Teddy Charles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Teddy Charles: is an American jazz pianist, drummer and vibraphone musician. Born Theodore Charles Cohen in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, he began his musical career studying at Juilliard School of Music as a percussionist. Later he started recording and making persona