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 (1833–1885), British army officer and colonial governor, killed at Khartoum
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Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly (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)
Charles William Gordon (19 March 1817 – 15 June 1863) was a British army officer and Conservative politician. He was a captain in the Madras Light Infantry. He was the son of Charles Gordon of Fyvie Castle, a son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rock ...
(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)
Charles Steward Gordon (8 September 1849 – 24 March 1930) was an English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and an underarm slow bowler who played mainly for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club from 1870 to 1875. He also pla ...
(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) (born 1968), Canadian football player
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Charles Gordon (American football) (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 (1867–1939), Canadian banker
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Charles Gordon (trade unionist) (died 1929), British trade union leader
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Charles Gordon (lawyer) (1905–1999), American immigration attorney
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Charles Gordon (artist) (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) (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'' by Daniel Keyes, and in the film adaptation ''Charly''
See also
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