Charles or Charlie Smith may refer to:

Academics

  • C. Alphonso Smith (1864–1924), American professor, college dean, philologist, and folklorist
  • Charles Emrys Smith aka Dr.Charles Smith Brocca, British economist, educator, Swansea Metropolitan University / University of Wales
  • Charles Roach Smith (1806–1890), founding member of the British Archaeological Association
  • Charles Saumarez Smith (born 1954), British art historian
  • Charles Smith (topographer) (1715–1763), Irish topographer and writer
  • Charles Sprague Smith (1853–1910), founder and director of the People's Institute
  • Charles Piper Smith (1877–1955), American botanist
  • Charles Smith (mathematician) (1844–1916), British academic
  • Charles Forster Smith (1852–1931), American classical philologist

Arts and entertainment

  • Bubba Smith (Charles Aaron Smith, 1945–2011), American actor and football player
  • Charles A. Smith (architect) (1866–1948), American architect
  • Charles Alexander Smith (1864–1915), Canadian painter from Ontario
  • Charles Martin Smith (born 1953), American actor and director
  • Charles Patrick Smith (1877–1963), Australian journalist
  • Charles Smith (actor) (1920–1988), American actor
  • Charles Smith (artist) (1749–1824), Scottish artist
  • Charles Smith (singer) (1786–1856), English tenor and bass, organist and composer
  • Charles Smith (songwriter), American record producer and songwriter
  • Charlie Smith (musician, born 1979), American jazz musician
  • Charlie Smith (drummer) (1927–1966), American jazz drummer
  • Charlie Smith (footballer) (1915–1984), Welsh footballer
  • Charlie Smith (American poet) (born 1947), American poet and novelist
  • Charlie Smith (Romani poet) (1956–2005), British poet and politician
  • Charles Smith (playwright), American playwright and educator
  • Charles Edward Smith (jazz) (1904–1970), American jazz author and critic
  • Charles Harriott Smith (1792-1864) English sculptor
  • Charles Raymond Smith (1798-1888) English sculptor
  • Dr. Charles Smith (born 1940), artist and activist

Military

  • Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), Australian aviator in WWI and afterwards
  • Charles Aitchison Smith (1871–1940), Indian army officer and administrator
  • Charles Douglass Smith (–1855), British army officer and colonial administrator
  • Charles Hamilton Smith (1776–1859), British artist, soldier and spy
  • Charles Felix Smith (1786–1858), British army officer
  • Charles Bean Smith, later Sir Charles Euan-Smith (1842–1910), British soldier and diplomat
  • Charles Bradford Smith (1916–2004), American army officer and Silver Star recipient
  • Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862), Union General of the American Civil War
  • Charles Henry Smith (Navy Medal of Honor) (1826–1898), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Charles Henry Smith (Army Medal of Honor) (1827–1902), American Civil War officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Politics

Australia

  • Charles Throsby Smith (1798–1876), Australian explorer and mayor
  • Charles Smith (Victorian politician) (1833–1903), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 1883–1892
  • Charles Smith (Western Australian politician) (born 1970), member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 2017

Canada

  • Charles A. Smith (Canadian politician) (1845–?), Canadian merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia
  • Charles L. Smith (Canadian politician) (1853–?), Canadian politician in New Brunswick
  • Charles Napier Smith (1866–1919), Canadian politician in Ontario
  • Charles Rhodes Smith (1896–1993), Canadian politician in Manitoba

United Kingdom

  • C. A. Smith (1895–?), British socialist and anti-communist activist
  • Charles Culling Smith (1775–1853), British politician and courtier
  • Charles Harding Smith (1931–1997), loyalist leader in Northern Ireland
  • Charles Smith (MP) (1756–1814), British politician, member of parliament

United States

  • Charles Aurelius Smith (1861–1916), governor of South Carolina
  • Charles Bennett Smith (1870–1939), U.S. representative from New York
  • Charles Brooks Smith (1844–1899), U.S. representative from West Virginia
  • Charles C. Smith (Virginia politician), mayor of Newport News, Virginia, 1924–1926
  • Charles C. Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (1908–1970), American representative from Pennsylvania
  • Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908), American journalist and politician
  • Charles F. Smith (politician) (1912–1962), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
  • Charles F. Smith Jr. (1918–2001), American politician in Wisconsin senate
  • Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903), American politician in Georgia senate and writer under the nom de plume Bill Arp
  • Charles H. Smith (Wisconsin politician) (1863–1915), Wisconsin state legislator
  • Charles K. Smith (1799–1866), American politician, lawyer, and first secretary of Minnesota Territory
  • Charles L. Smith (Seattle politician) (1892–1982), mayor of Seattle, Washington
  • Charles Lynwood Smith Jr. (born 1943), U.S. federal judge
  • Charles Manley Smith (1868–1937), governor of Vermont, 1935–37
  • Charles P. Smith (politician) (1926–2014), Wisconsin state treasurer
  • Charles P. Smith (judge) (1878–1948), United States Tax Court judge
  • Charles Plympton Smith (born 1954), American banker and former member of the Vermont House of Representatives
  • Chuck Smith (Florida politician) (Charles R. Smith, 1928–2021), American politician
  • Charles Sydney Smith (mayor) (1828–1907), jeweler and mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
  • Charles Z. Smith (1927–2016), Washington State Supreme Court justice
  • Charles Wallace Smith (1864–1939), speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives
  • Charlie Smith (Louisiana lobbyist) (1942–2012), American lobbyist

Other

  • Charles Abercrombie Smith (1834–1919), scientist, politician and civil servant of the Cape Colony
  • Robert Smith (colonial administrator) (Charles Robert Smith, 1887–1959), British colonial administrator and Governor of North Borneo

Science and technology

  • Charles H. Smith (historian) (born 1950), American historian of science
  • Charles Smith (pathologist), Canadian forensic pathologist reprimanded for his evidence in shaken baby cases since 1992
  • Charles Michie Smith (1854–1922), Scottish astronomer

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Sports

American football

  • Charles H. Smith (American football) (active 1883–1894), American football center
  • Charles Smith (American football) (1924–2013), American football back
  • Charlie Smith (tackle) (1889–1961), American football tackle
  • Charlie Smith (running back) (born 1946), American football running back
  • Charlie Smith (wide receiver) (born 1950), American football wide receiver
  • Bubba Smith (Charles Aaron Smith, 1945–2011), American football defensive end and actor

Baseball

  • Charles R. Smith (coach) (died 1969), American baseball and basketball coach
  • Charley Smith (1937–1994), American MLB third baseman
  • Charlie Smith (pitcher) (1880–1929), American MLB pitcher
  • Charlie Smith (infielder) (1840–1897), American MLB infielder
  • Chino Smith (Charles Smith, 1903–1932), Negro league baseball player
  • Pop Smith (Charles Marv Smith, 1856–1927), Canadian MLB infielder, 1880–1891
  • Red Smith (pitcher) (Charles Smith), American Negro league baseball player

Basketball

  • Charles Smith (basketball, born 1965), University of Pittsburgh and New York Knicks
  • Charles Smith (basketball, born 1967), Georgetown University and Boston Celtics
  • Charles Smith (basketball, born August 1975), University of New Mexico and Portland Trail Blazers
  • Charles Smith (basketball, born October 1975), American-English basketball player
  • Charles Smith (basketball coach) (born 1949), American high school basketball coach

Cricket

  • Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), English actor and cricketer
  • Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1879) (1879–1949), English cricketer
  • Charlie Smith (South African cricketer) (1872–1947), South African cricketer
  • Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1925), English cricketer
  • Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1920), New Zealand cricketer and administrator
  • Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1930), English cricketer
  • Charles Smith (South African cricketer) (1905–1967), South African cricketer
  • Charlie Smith (English cricketer) (1859–1942), English cricketer
  • Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1838) (1838–1909), English cricketer
  • Charles Smith (cricketer, born 1898) (1898–1955), English cricketer

Other sports

  • Charles Smith (sailor) (1889–1969), American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
  • Charles Sydney Smith (1876–1951), British three times Olympic water polo champion
  • Charles Eastlake Smith (1850–1917), British football player
  • Charles Smith (polo) (active 1972–1981), American polo player
  • Charles Smith (rugby) (1909–1976), New Zealand rugby football player
  • Charles C. Smith (boxer) (1860–1924), African American boxer
  • Charles Smith (Australian footballer) (1901–1968), Australian footballer
  • Charles Smith (English footballer), English footballer
  • Charlie Smith (golfer) (1931–2011), American golfer

Other people

  • Charles Smith (cowboy) ("Hairlip" Charlie Smith; 1844–1907), frontiersman and lawman in the Old West, member of Wyatt Earp's posse
  • Charles Lee Smith (1887–1964), American atheist activist
  • Charlie Smith (centenarian) (1874–1979), claimed to be the oldest person in the United States
  • Charles Pressley Smith (1862–1935), Anglican priest
  • Charles John Smith (1803–1838), English engraver
  • Charles Rattray Smith (1859–1941), schoolteacher in Britain and New South Wales, Australia
  • Charles Smith (developer) (1901–1995), American real estate developer and philanthropist in the Washington DC area
  • Charles Smith (priest), English Anglican priest
  • Charles Spencer Smith (1852–1923), American bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal church
  • Charles Edward Smith (Baptist) (1835–1929), American author and Baptist ecclesiologist and apologist
  • Charles R. Smith, head of the Menasha Wooden Ware Co., who named Ladysmith, Wisconsin, after his wife
  • Charles "Chip" Smith, an alias of German murderer Christian Gerhartsreiter
  • Charles Howard Smith (1888–1942), British diplomat
  • Charles Howard Smith (trade unionist) (1875–1965), British trade union leader
  • Charles Loraine Smith (1751–1835), sportsman, artist and politician
  • J. Charles Smith III (born 1964), American prosecutor in Frederick County, Maryland

Fictional characters

  • Charles Smith, character in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Charlie Smith, character in the television series Class

Other uses

  • Charles E. Smith Co.
  • Chuck Smith (disambiguation)
  • Charles Smyth (disambiguation)