Dr Charles Robert Gibson FRSE LLD (1870-1931) was a prodigious and popular 20th century Scottish author of accessible scientific texts aimed at children. He inherited his father’s business of Gibson Brothers & Co. The company owned a large shop at 153 George street in Paisley, Renfrewshire plus a factory at St Mirrens Mills.
Charles Rollin was a French historian and educator, whose popularity in his time combined with becoming forgotten by later generations makes him an epithet, applied to historians such as Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi.
Charles Rufus Brown (1849–1914) was an American Baptist clergyman and biblical scholar. He did not originally intend such a career, even though his father was a Baptist clergyman. Aiming at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, he graduated and was serving in the Navy when he felt a call to the clergy. Resigning, he spent the next several years learning the languages and scholarship of the Bible, publishing and teaching at last in the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. He came home to a small Baptist ministry in New Hampshire.
Charles Rufus Morey was an American art historian, professor, and chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University from 1924 to 1945. He had expertise in medieval art and founded the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University in 1917. He was one of the founders of the College Art Association.
Charles Ryle Fay was a noted British economic historian. He was a strong advocate of co-operation, workers' rights and women's rights. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby and the University of Cambridge, where he was a student alongside John Maynard Keynes. The two remained friends until Keynes' death.
Charles S. Olcott was an American non-fiction writer. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, he graduated from DePauw University and worked in publishing as the general manager of the private library of Houghton Mifflin. He was the author of four books, including a two-volume biography of President William McKinley.
Charles Saint-Prot is a French geopolitician and writer. He is a historian specializing in international relations and geopolitics, in particular, questions of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Saint-Prot is the director of the Observatoire d'études géopolitiques in Paris, a research center on the international relations, and is the director, with Zeina el Tibi, of the publication Études géopolitiques
