Charles Fox
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Charles Fox may refer to:
- Charles Fox (mathematician)Charles Fox (mathematician)Charles Fox was a mathematician who introduced the Fox H-function.-References:...
(1897-1977) Mathematician - Charles Douglas FoxCharles Douglas FoxSir Douglas Fox was a British civil engineer.-Early life:Douglas was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, the oldest son of Sir Charles Fox and had two brothers and a sister. Sir Charles was a civil engineer and had designed, amongst other things, The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park...
(1840–1921), British civil engineer - Charles James FoxCharles James FoxCharles James Fox PC , styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger...
(1749–1806), British politician - Charles Fox (composer)Charles Fox (composer)Charles Ira Fox is an American composer for film and television. His most heard compositions are probably the "love themes" , and the dramatic theme music to ABC's Wide World of Sports and the original Monday Night Football.....
(born 1940), film and television composer - Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer) (1810–1874), British civil and railway engineer, built The Crystal Palace
- Charles Fox (Paymaster) (1660–1713), British politician
- Charles Fox (scientist)Charles Fox (scientist)Charles Fox , a Quaker scientist, developed Trebah Garden, near Mawnan Smith in Cornwall. He was a member of the influential Fox family of Falmouth....
(1797–1878), British scientist - Charles Eli Fox (1879–1926), American architect, partner in the Chicago firm of Marshall and FoxMarshall and FoxMarshall and Fox was an United States architectural firm based in Chicago from 1905 to 1926. The principals, Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox, designed a number of significant buildings of many types, in Chicago and other cities, but they were best known for luxury hotels and apartment...
- Charles Elliot FoxCharles Elliot FoxCharles Elliot Fox was a Anglican missionary and teacher in Melanesia.Fox was born in Stalbridge, Dorset, England, and educated in New Zealand, graduating from University of New Zealand...
, English ethnographer and missionary - Charlie FoxCharlie FoxCharles Francis Fox was an American manager, general manager, scout, coach—and, briefly, a catcher—in Major League Baseball...
, full name Charles Francis Fox, (1920–2004), American baseball manager, scout, coach, and athlete - Charlie Fox (rugby)Charlie Fox (rugby)Charlie Fox was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative second-rower who made 36 appearances for the Wallabies, playing in 17 Test matches and captained the national side on seven occasions in 1925.-Representative career:Charles Fox was twenty-one years of age and...
, Australian rugby union player - Charles Philip Fox (1913–2003), a.k.a. Chappie FoxChappie FoxCharles Philip "Chappie" Fox was a circus historian and philanthropist born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who greatly expanded the Circus World Museum and helped found the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee....
, circus historian and philanthropist - Charles Richard FoxCharles Richard FoxGeneral Charles Richard Fox was a British army general, and later a politician.Fox was born at Brompton, the illegitimate son of Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, through a liaison with Lady Webster, whom Lord Holland would later marry.After some service in the Royal Navy, Fox entered...
(1796–1873), illegitimate son of Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland - Charley FoxCharley FoxCharles William Fox, DFCand Bar, CD was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II...
, full name Charles W. Fox, (1920–2008), Canadian Air Force officer in WWII - Inez and Charlie FoxxInez and Charlie FoxxCharlie Foxx and his sister Inez Foxx were an African-American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang back-up and played guitar.Their most successful record was with their novelty composition, "Mockingbird"...
, American musicians - Charles Fox (jazz critic)Charles Fox (jazz critic)Charles Richard Jeremy Fox was an English writer and broadcaster specialising in jazz.Fox worked as the jazz critic of the New Statesman. In addition he occasionally contributed to The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Gramophone. From the early 1960s he hosted the British radio programme Jazz...
(1921–1991), British jazz critic - Charles Masson FoxCharles Masson FoxCharles Masson Fox was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the gay history of Edwardian England....
(1866–1935), Cornish businessman and chess player
See also
- Charles Fox BennettCharles Fox BennettCharles James Fox Bennett was a merchant and politician who successfully fought attempts to take Newfoundland into Canadian confederation. Bennett was a successful businessman and one of the island's richest residents with interests in the fisheries, distillery and brewery industry and shipbuilding...
, English-Canadian merchant and politician - Charles Fox BurneyCharles Fox BurneyRev. Charles Fox Burney was Biblical scholar at Oxford University, England.-Early life:Charles was the son of Charles Burney, Paymaster Chief Royal Navy, and his wife Eleanor Norton, daughter of the Rev. W. A. Norton, rector of Alderton and Eye, Suffolk. He was educated at Merchant Taylors'...
, British biblical scholar - Charles Fox ParhamCharles Fox ParhamCharles Fox Parham was an American preacher and evangelist. Together with William J. Seymour, Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and early spread of Pentecostalism...
, U.S. preacher - Charles Fox TownshendCharles Fox TownshendCharles Fox Townshend was the founder of the Eton Society.Townshend was the eldest son of Lord John Townshend, second son of George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend. His mother was Georgiana Anne, daughter of William Poyntz, while George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, was his uncle...
, founder of The Eton Society