title: Charles Thornton
text: # Charles Thornton
  
  Charles Thornton may refer to:
  
  * Tex Thornton (1913–1981), American businessman
  * Charles Thornton (cricketer) (1850–1929), English cricketer
  * Charles "Cookie" Thornton, resident of Kirkwood, Missouri involved, in Kirkwood City Council shooting
  * Charles Irving Thornton (1841–1842), American infant from the state of Virginia
  * Charles Jonas Thornton (1850–1932), political figure in Durham, Ontario
  * Charles Wade Thornton (1764–1854), British military officer
  * Charles E. Thornton (1930s–1985), medical reporter and the first American journalist killed in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion of 1979
  