Charles Parker Explained

Charles or Charlie Parker may refer to:

Politicians and administrators

• Charles D. Parker (1827–1925), former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• Charles H. Parker (1814–1890), Wisconsin legislator
• Charles Parker (Australian politician) (1896–1956), New South Wales politician
• Charles Parker (British politician), activist in the British National Party
• Charles Parker (New Zealand politician) (1809–1898), New Zealand politician and carpenter
• Charles Parker (Michigan politician) (1877–1934), member of the Michigan House of Representatives
• Charlie Parker (Nova Scotia politician) (born 1951), NDP MLA for Pictou West in Nova Scotia, Canada
• Charles Stuart Parker (1829–1909), British Member of Parliament for Perth, 1878–1892
• Charles William Parker (1912–1997), clergyman and politician in British Columbia, Canada

Sportsmen

• Charlie Parker (basketball) (born 1948), American basketball coach
• Charlie Parker (cricketer) (1882–1959), English cricketer
• Charlie Parker (footballer) (1891–1969), English footballer
• Charlie Parker (Canadian football), American-born Canadian football player

Cultural figures

• Charles Parker (producer) (1919–1980), BBC Radio producer of the Radio Ballads
• Charlie Parker (1920–1955), jazz musician

Others

• Sir Charles Parker, 5th Baronet (1792–1869), British naval officer
• Charles Parker (VC) (1870–1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Charles S. Parker (died 1950), American botanist
• Charles E. Parker (1836–1909), American judge from New York
• Charles Wolcott Parker (1862–1948), judge in New Jersey
• Charles Edward Parker, American architect from Boston, Massachusetts
• Charles Wallace Parker, builder of the C. W. Parker Carousel

Characters

• Charles Parker (detective), fictional character created by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Charley Parker, DC Comics character Golden Eagle I
• Charlie Parker, a fictional former police officer in a series of crime novels by John Connolly
• Ensign Charles Parker, character in McHale's Navy

See also

• Charles Parks (disambiguation)