| Native Name: | ชรินทร์ นันทนาคร |
| Native Name Lang: | th |
| Birth Date: | 1 February 1933 |
| Birth Place: | Chiang Mai Province, Siam |
| Death Place: | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Awards: | 1998 National Artist Performing Arts (International Thai Songs - Sing) |
| Children: | 3 (2 daughters with Sapan and 1 with Petchara but died) |
| Birth Name: | Mai Wattanathanin[1] |
Charin Nanthanakorn or former name Charin Ngam-muang[2] (1 February 1933 – 20 August 2024) was a Thai artist, singer, actor, film director and a film producer. Recognized by the National Cultural Commission as a 1998 National Artist Performing Arts (International Thai Songs - Sing), the second marriage with Petchara Chaowarat, a former famous heroine in Thailand and also National Artist Performing Arts, the owner of the nickname "Heroine Eyes Honey Drops".
Charin Nantanakorn co-created the song "Psalm Maharaja", which resulted in him being awarded the "Conch Ngern" honorary award for using art to create patriotism and the monarchy.
Charin Nantanakorn is regarded as the one who sang international Thai songs mixed with traditional Thai songs having a high and low melody with a charming voice that invites you to hear. There are about 1,500 songs recorded to phonograph records.
Charin Ngam-Muang was born on Chiang Mai Province on 1 February 1933, graduated Primary School from Dara Academy, Secondary school from Montfort College Chiang Mai Province and Assumption Commercial College Bangkok. He began to learn to sing with Kru Salai Krailert, a famous composer at that time and started singing interlude in the stage play Nang Prai in 1949 with the song Duangjai Nai Fun and started platter recording for distribution for the first time that year, followed by Adonis Lament (อิเหนารำพัน) in 1951. Then he moved back to Chiang Mai, his hometown works at Kamol-Sukosol Company, Chiang Mai Branch then the head office called to work in Bangkok in the accounting department, foreign department to the platter department.[3]
Nantanakorn died at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok on 20 August 2024, at the age of 91.[4]