What is Charles?
'''Charles''' is a boy's name of [[Germany|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 Drummond Ellis|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 Antony Richard Hoare|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 * [[Montesquieu|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 Spain|Charles IV of Spains]], King of Spain 1788-18