Charlotte

Charlotte

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	French
Other names
Related names	Charles

Charlotte commonly refers to:

• Charlotte (name), a feminine form of the given name Charles
• Charlotte, North Carolina, a major United States city

Charlotte may also refer to:

Geographical places

Other cities

United States

• Charlotte, Iowa
• Charlotte, Maine
• Charlotte, Michigan
• Charlotte, New York, a town in Chautauqua County
• Charlotte, Rochester, New York, a neighborhood
• Charlotte, Tennessee, location of a meteorite fall in 1835
• Charlotte, Texas
• Charlotte, Vermont
• Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands
• Charlotte Amalie West, United States Virgin Islands

Canada

• Queen Charlotte, British Columbia

Counties and parishes

• Charlotte County, 4 counties in the United States and Canada with the name
• Charlotte Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Canadian electoral districts

• New Brunswick Southwest (formerly known as Charlotte and St. Croix—Belleisle), a federal electoral district in New Brunswick
• Charlotte (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada from 1994 to 2006
• Charlotte-The Isles, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
• Charlotte-Campobello, a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

Geographic features

• Queen Charlotte Islands, an archipelago off the northwest coast of British Columbia, Canada
• Queen Charlotte Basin, the continental shelf offshore of the British Columbia mainland
• Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia
• Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand

See also

• Charlottesville, Virginia
• Charlottetown, provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Port Charlotte, Florida

Universities

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

People

• Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
• Charlotte Brontë, English novelist that authored Jane Eyre
• Charlotte Church, actress, soprano, chat-show host and pop singer
• Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and musician
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American poet, writer and social reformer
• Charlotte Hatherley, British rock musician
• Charlotte (singer) (Charlotte Kelly), a blind R&B singer
• Charlotte Krona, Swedish model
• Charlotte Lamb, the pseudonym of Sheila Holland, a bestselling romantic novelist.
• Charlotte Oelschlagel, German figure skater who performed professionally as "Charlotte"
• Charlotte Rampling, actress
• Charlotte Teske, German long-distance runner

These women are usually identified as Charlotte with an appended title rather than a surname:

• Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany
• Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• Charlotte, Princess Royal, later Queen Charlotte of Württemberg
• Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico
• Charlotte of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia, Queen
• Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ("Queen Charlotte"), the queen consort of George III
• Charlotte of Savoy, wife of Louis XI of France
• Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Cassel (or Hesse-Kassel), Queen of Denmark
• Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Princess of Monaco
• Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only legitimate child of George IV of the United Kingdom
• Archduchess Charlotte of Austria

• several women known as Princess Charlotte

Fiction

Media

• Charlotte Sometimes, a children's novel by Penelope Farmer
• Charlotte's Web, a children's novel by E. B. White
• Wakakusa no Charlotte, a Japanese cartoon series

Names

• Charlotte Angelica Winfrey, a character in Making Fiends
• Charlotte Doyle, title character in the novel The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
• Charlotte Hollis, a character played by Bette Davis in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• Charlotte Lewis (Lost), a character in Lost
• Charlotte York, a character in Sex and The City

Misc

• Charlotte, the object of the title character's unrequited love in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music

See People section above for individual musician names

Bands

• Good Charlotte, a U.S. pop rock band from Waldorf, Maryland
• Charlotte (band), a Japanese Oshare Kei/indies band

Song names

• Charlotte (song), by Air Traffic
• Charlotte (Kittie song), the second single released by all-female alternative metal band Kittie
• "Charlotte the Harlot", a song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden

Sports

• Charlotte 49ers, the name of sports teams at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Lowe's Motor Speedway, originally named Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina near Charlotte
• Charlotte Bobcats, of the National Basketball Association
• Charlotte Checkers, of the East Coast Hockey League
• Charlotte Eagles, of the United Soccer Leagues Second Division
• Charlotte Knights, of the AAA baseball International League
• Charlotte Lady Eagles, of USL W-League Atlantic Division
• Charlotte (figure skating), a figure skating spiral move

Nautical

• Charlotte (ship), a First Fleet convict transport ship to Australia
• Charlotte (sloop), a ship sunk off the New South Wales coast in 1808
• Charlotte (sternwheeler), a paddle steamer from the Fraser River
• HMS Queen Charlotte, four ships of the Royal Navy
• Queen Charlotte merchant ship, British merchant ship of the 18th century

Other

• Charlotte (dessert), a type of dessert
• Charlotte High School, a list of high schools named Charlotte

See also

• Lotte, a short form of Charlotte