Famous People with Name Charlie

Charlie Wilson            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Charlie Wilson: was an English footballer who played for Liverpool and Stockport County. He won the League Title with Liverpool in 1901, but was forced to retire through injury four years later. He remained at Anfield in various scouting and coaching roles up until the start of World War II.

Charlie White            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charlie White: a Los Angeles-based artist.White’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums such as The Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, China; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Oberösterreichisches Landesumuseum, Linz, Austria; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. He is represented by Brändström & Se, Berlin, Germany. His latest monograph, tilted "Monsters" will be published by powerHouse Books, New York in Spring of 2007.

Charlie Fowler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charlie Fowler: was an American mountain climber, writer, and photographer. He was one of North America’s most experienced mountain climbers, and successfully climbed many of the world’s highest peaks. Along with his climbing partner, Christine Boskoff, he went missing i

Charlie Glotzbach            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charlie Glotzbach: is a former ARCA and NASCAR driver who competed in NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) events. Charlie holds one of the oldest race records in NASCAR. He was also known as "The Chargin' Comet" and "Chargin' Charlie". He was born in Edwardsv

Charlie Drake            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Charlie Drake: was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.Drake made his first appearance on stage at the age of eight, and after leaving school toured working men's clubs. After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Drake turned professional and ma

Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier: was a Swedish astronomer.He received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Lund University from 1897.He made extensive statistical studies of the stars in our galaxy and their positions and motions, and tried to develop a model of the galaxy based on this.Related to his work on galactic structure, he also developed a cosmological theory based on the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert. In the resulting Lambert-Charlier Hierarchical Cosmology, increasingly large areas of space contain decreasing densities of matter, the principle being introduced to avoid the observational inconsistency that would otherwise emerge from Olbers Paradox.

Sebastien Charlier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Sebastien Charlier: is a french diatonic harmonica player, born in Beaumont sur Oise in 1971. His incredible technic enables him to play chromatically, in all keys, on a single blues harp. His music is inspired by many different influences, from Blues to Jazz, from Fusion to Electro-Pop.