Charles Turner
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Australia
- Charles Turner (cricketer)Charles Turner (cricketer)Charles Thomas Biass Turner was a bowler who is regarded as one of the finest ever produced by Australia....
(1862–1944), Australian cricketer - Charles Turner (water polo), Australian water polo player in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
Canada
- Charles Turner (Canadian politician)Charles Turner (Canadian politician)Charles Robert Turner was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons and later became a member of the Senate of Canada...
(1916–1993), Liberal MP for London East, then Senator from Ontario - Charlie Turner (Canadian football), Canadian football player
United Kingdom
- Charles Turner (engraver)Charles Turner (engraver)Charles Turner was an English mezzotint engraver and draughtsman. Through his mother's influence he had access to the famous gallery at Blenheim Palace...
(1773–1857), English engraver - Charles Turner (MP)Charles Turner (MP)Charles Turner was a British businessman and Conservative politician.He was the son of Ralph Turner, a trader from Hull, Yorkshire. He entered business in Liverpool as an East India Company merchant. He subsequently became chairman of the British Shipowners Company and of the Royal Insurance...
(1803–1875), MP for Liverpool, South Lancashire and South West Lancashire - Charles Turner (bishop) (1842–1923), suffragan Bishop of Islington
- Charles Turner (composer)Charles Turner (composer)Charles Turner was an English composer and part-time spy, who took the last recorded British pre-World War II photographs of Adolf Hitler....
(1907–1977), minor English composer, who took the last pre-war photographs of Hitler - Charles Turner (cricketer, born 1862)Charles Turner (cricketer, born 1862)Charles Turner was an English cricketer and British Army officer. Turner's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born in Gringley-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire and died at Thatcham House, Thatcham, Berkshire....
(1862–1925), cricketer - Charles Tennyson TurnerCharles Tennyson TurnerCharles Tennyson Turner was an English poet.Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and "heart union" with his greater brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers. He married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfred's future wife; another...
(1808–1879), British poet - Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Warham (1666–1738), British Member of Parliament for King's Lynn, 1695–1738
- Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham (1727–1783), British Member of Parliament for York, 1768–1783
- Sir Charles Turner, 2nd BaronetSir Charles Turner, 2nd BaronetSir Charles Turner, 2nd Baronet was an English politician.He was elected at the 1796 general election as a Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull,and held the seat until the 1802 general election....
(1773–1810), British Member of Parliament for Hull, 1796–1802
United States
- Charles Turner (musician)Charles Turner (musician)Charles Turner was an American jazz trumpeter. Turner performed with Frank Sinatra for eight years, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Ralph Flanagan, Harry James, Charlie Spivak, Count Basie and many other great musicians of the 20th century. Charles Turner was one of America’s greatest lead jazz...
(1936–2006), American jazz trumpeter - Charles Turner, Jr.Charles Turner, Jr.Charles Turner, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Turner received a common-school education at Duxbury and Scituate, Massachusetts. He was commissioned an adjutant in the Massachusetts State Militia in 1787...
(1760–1839), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts - Charles H. Turner (attorney)Charles H. Turner (attorney)Charles H. Turner is a former United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. Prior to his presidential appointment as U.S. Attorney, Turner worked under his predecessor, Sidney I. Lezak, for 14 years. He was appointed as Lezak's replacement by President Ronald Reagan.As U.S...
, U.S. Attorney for Oregon - Charles Henry Turner (painter)Charles Henry Turner (painter)Charles Henry Francis Turner was an American watercolourist and oil painter of landscapes, portraits, illustrations, and genre scenes, who from 1877 studied with Otto Grundmann , founder of the "Boston School", at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School...
(1848–1908), American painter - Charles Henry Turner (U.S. Representative) (1861–1913), U.S. Representative from New York
- Charles Henry Turner (zoologist) (1867–1923), American zoologist
- Charles W. TurnerCharles W. TurnerCharles William Turner was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 1, 1950.-Medal of Honor citation:Rank and...
(1921–1950), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient - Charles Yardley TurnerCharles Yardley TurnerCharles Yardley Turner was an American artist and muralist.Born in Baltimore, Turner studied art in Europe under French masters Jean-Paul Laurens, Mihály Munkácsy and Léon Bonnat...
(1850–1919), American painter - Chuck TurnerChuck TurnerChuck Turner is a Boston, Massachusetts politician, activist, and convicted felon, who served on the Boston City Council representing District 7. Turner is a member of the Green-Rainbow Party Massachusetts affiliate to the national Green Party...
, Boston councillor