Charles Gordon may refer to:
Politics and armed forces
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Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne
Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne (c1638 - March 1681). The fourth son of George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly and Lady Anne Campbell, he was created 1st Earl of Aboyne and 1st Lord Gordon of Strathaven and Glenlivet by Letters Patent on 10 Sept ...
(1638–1681)
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Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne
Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne (c. 1670 – April 1702). The eldest son of Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne and Elizabeth Lyon, he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Aboyne in March 1681. At the time of his death in April 1702, he was succee ...
(1670–1702)
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Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne
Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne (c. 1726 – 28 December 1794). The eldest son of John Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne and Grace Lockhart, he succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Aboyne on 7 April 1732. On his death in 1794 he was succeeded in his t ...
(1726–1794)
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Charles Gordon (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Charles Gordon, CB (1781 – 3 October 1860) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the nineteenth century. Gordon's most notable action was the action of 18 September 1810, when he was seriously wounded in battle and his ...
(c. 1780–1860)
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Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly
Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly (4 January 1792 – 18 September 1863), styled Lord Strathavon from 1794 to 1836 and Earl of Aboyne from 1836 to 1853, was a Scottish peer and first a Tory (1818–1830) and then a Whig (1830 onwards) po ...
(1792–1863), Scottish peer and politician
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Charles George Gordon
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Charles George Gordon Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and ...
(1833–1885), British army officer and colonial governor, killed at Khartoum
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Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly, PC, DL, JP (5 March 1847 – 20 February 1937), styled Lord Strathavon until 1853 and Earl of Aboyne between 1853 and 1863, was a Scottish Liberal politician. He served under William Ewart Gladstone, ...
(1847–1937), Scottish Liberal politician
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Charlie Gordon
Charles Gordon (born 28 October 1951, Glasgow) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Cathcart from 2005 to 2011.
Gordon was elected to the Strathclyde Regional Coun ...
(born 1951), Scottish Labour Party politician
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Charles William Gordon (MP) (1817–1863), British Conservative politician
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Charles Gordon (parliamentary clerk) (1918–2009), English parliamentary clerk
Sports
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Charles Gordon (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1930), English cricketer
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Charles Gordon (cricketer, born 1814) (1814–1899), English cricketer and gin distiller
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Charles Gordon (Canadian football)
Charles Gordon (born July 30, 1968 in Tampa, Florida) is a former American/Canadian Football League player who attended Eastern Michigan University from 1986–1989 earning All-Mid American Conference (MAC) honors for three consecutive years incl ...
(born 1968), Canadian football player
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Charles Gordon (American football)
Charles Gordon (born July 18, 1984) is a former American football cornerback and coach. He was signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at the University of Kansas. He also was a defensive backs coach ...
(born 1984), American cornerback
Other
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Ralph Connor
Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf").
The most common forms ...
(1860–1937), pen name of Rev. Charles William Gordon, Canadian novelist
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Charles Blair Gordon
Sir Charles Blair Gordon, GBE (22 November 186730 July 1939) was a Canadian banker, manufacturer and diplomat.
Life and career
Educated at the High School of Montreal, Gordon founded the Standard Shirt Company, organized Dominion Textile in 190 ...
(1867–1939), Canadian banker
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Charles Gordon (trade unionist)
James Charles Gordon (died 5 April 1929) was a British trade union leader and socialist activist.
Born in Lambeth, Gordon completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker with Pender & Baker, and then joined the East London Society of Tin and ...
(died 1929), British trade union leader
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Charles Gordon (lawyer)
Charles Gordon ( – ) was an immigration lawyer in Washington, D.C. He worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Service for 35 years, including eight years as its general counsel. Starting in 1959, he began to publish ''Immigration Law and P ...
(1905–1999), American immigration attorney
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Charles Gordon (artist)
Charles Allyn Gordon, Jr. (July 3, 1909, Corsicana, Texas - June 9, 1978 Los Angeles, California), was a watercolor artist.
He graduated from Corsicana High School in 1925 and from the University of Texas, Austin in 1929 with a degree in architec ...
(1909–1978), watercolor artist
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Charles Gordon (journalist)
Charles Gordon (born 1940) is a Canadian writer and retired journalist, best known as a longtime columnist for the ''Ottawa Citizen''."Charles Gordon: Incisive, Funny, Retired". ''Ottawa Citizen'', June 11, 2005.
Background
Born in New York City ...
(born 1940), Canadian writer and journalist
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Charles Jason Gordon
Charles Jason Gordon (born 17 March 1959) is a Trinidadian Roman Catholic prelate and the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Port of Spain since his appointment in 2017. He had served prior to this as a parish priest for the locality of Gonzal ...
(born 1959), bishop of Barbados
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Charles Gordon (producer)
Charles Gordon (May 13, 1947 – October 31, 2020) was an American film producer and brother to Lawrence Gordon. The Gordons were raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi.
Gordon was married to his wife, Lynda, for 50 years until he die ...
(1947–2020), film producer of ''October Sky''
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Charles Grant Gordon (1927–2013), Scottish whisky distiller
Characters
* Charlie Gordon, the main character in ''
Flowers for Algernon
''Flowers for Algernon'' is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of ''T ...
'' by Daniel Keyes, and in the film adaptation ''Charly''
See also
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