Charles Brown

Charles or Charlie Brown may refer to:

People

Athletes

• Charlie Brown (Australian footballer) (1896–1956), Australian rules footballer for Collingwood
• Charlie Brown (footballer, born 1873) (1873–1941), Australian rules footballer for Carlton
• Charlie Brown (footballer, born 1898) (1898–1979), English footballer with Southampton and Queens Park Rangers
• Charlie Brown (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer who played for Queen of the South
• Ed Brown (quarterback) (Charles Edward Brown, 1928–2007), American football quarterback and punter in the National Football League
• Charles Edwin Brown (born 1936), college and professional American football player
• Charlie Brown (defensive back) (born 1942), American Football League player
• Charlie Brown (running back) (born 1945), National Football League player
• Charlie Brown (wide receiver) (born 1958), National Football League player
• Charles Brown (offensive lineman) (born 1987), American football player
• Charles Brown (roque player) (1867–1937), American roque player and Olympic bronze medalist
• Charles Brown (boxer) (born 1939), Olympic boxer and bronze medalist
• Charlie Brown (boxer) (born 1958), former boxing champion
• Charlie Brown (baseball) (1871–1938), baseball player
• Charles Brown (cricketer) (1854–1917), Australian-born English cricketer
• Charles Brown (ice hockey) (born 1947), American ice hockey player
• Charles Brown (rugby union) (1887–1966), New Zealand rugby union player
• Charles Brown (tennis), Canadian Olympic tennis player
• Charles Brown (water polo), former water polo representative from New Zealand
• Charlie Brown (wrestler) (born 1942), former professional wrestler and author better known as Jimmy Valiant

Clergymen

• Charles Arthur Brown (1919–1997), American-born Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• Charles John Brown (born 1959), American Catholic Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
• Charles Oliver Brown (1848–1941), Congregational Minister and bugler in the American Civil War
• Charles Reynolds Brown (1862–1950), American Congregational clergyman and educator
• Charles Rufus Brown (1849–1914), American Baptist clergyman and Semitic scholar

Entertainers

• Charles Brown (actor) (1946–2004), Tony Award-nominated performer with Negro Ensemble Company
• Charles Brown (musician) (1922–1999), blues singer
• Charles D. Brown (1887–1948), American stage and film actor
• Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (1863–1924), founder of BBC/Asea Brown Boveri
• Carlinhos Brown (Portuguese for Charlie Brown, born 1962), Brazilian musician
• Charlie Brown, member of Leaders of the New School
• Charlie Brown (DJ), host of On the Beach on WVCO and other stations
• Charlie Brown (singer) (born 1991), British singer
• Chuck Brown (1936–2012), American guitarist and singer

Military people

• Charles Brown (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1678–1753), Royal Navy officer
• Charles Brown (soldier) (1841–1919), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Charles Brown (Medal of Honor) (1849–?), American 1871 Korean Expedition sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Charles E. Brown, Jr., Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Army
• Charlie Brown of the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, American World War II pilot whose heavily damaged bomber was not shot down by a Luftwaffe pilot
• Charles Henry Brown (1872–1917), New Zealand Army officer who served during World War I
• Charles R. Brown (1899–1983), United States Navy four-star admiral
• Charles Q. Brown Jr. (born 1962), U.S. Air Force general

Politicians

• Charlie Brown (California politician) (born 1949), retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, candidate for Congress for California
• Charles Brown (Labour politician) (1884–1940), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Mansfield, 1929–1940
• Charles Brown (Taranaki) (1820–1901), New Zealand politician from Taranaki
• Charlie Brown (Indiana politician) (born 1938), Indiana State Representative
• Charles Brown (congressman) (1797–1883), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• Charles Elwood Brown (1834–1904), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Charles Harrison Brown (1920–2003), U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Charles Henry Brown (Vermont) (1904–1959), Vermont lawyer and politician
• Charles Hunter Brown (1825–1898), New Zealand politician from Canterbury
• Charles Brown (Australian politician) (1895–1970), Australian politician from Queensland
• Charles M. Brown (1903–1995), Atlanta politician for whom the airport Charlie Brown Field is named
• Charles Brown (mayor) (1873–1943), mayor of Murray, Utah, 1906–1909
• Chuck Brown (Minnesota politician) (1951–2003), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Writers

• Charles Farrar Browne (1834–1867), U.S. humor writer better known under his pen name, Artemus Ward
• Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), U.S. novelist
• Charles Armitage Brown (1787–1842), friend of poet John Keats
• Charles N. Brown (1937–2009), founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy industry magazine Locus
• Charles Phillip Brown (1798–1884), Telugu writer
• Charles Hopel Brown (born 1964), Jamaican writer

Other

• Charlie Brown, Peanuts character
• Charles Oliver Brown (1848–1941), bugler in the American Civil War, minister and public speaker
• Charles E. Brown (photographer) (1896–1982), commercial aviation photographer
• Charles Brown, aka Kite Man, minor villain in Batman comic books
• Charles Brown (engineer) (1827–1905), British engineer
• Charles Harvey Brown (1875–1960), American librarian
• Charles Barrington Brown, British geologist and explorer

Music

• "Charlie Brown" (The Coasters song), a 1959 hit song written by Leiber and Stoller
• "Charlie Brown" (Coldplay song), a 2011 song from Coldplay's fifth album, Mylo Xyloto
• "Charlie Brown," a 1975 song by Two Man Sound
• Charlie Brown Jr., a Brazilian rock band

Other uses

• Charlie Brown, the callsign of Apollo 10's Command Module
• Charlie Brown Field, aka Fulton County Airport (Georgia), after Charles M. Brown
• Charlie Brown's Steakhouse, a regional United States chain with locations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
• Charles E. Brown Middle School, a public junior high school in Newton, Massachusetts
• Charlie Brown's, Limehouse, a pub in Limehouse, London, demolished in 1989
• Charlie Brown's Roundabout, a roundabout in north east London

See also

• Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), British footballer
• Carlos Brown (disambiguation)