Charles or Charlie Parker may refer to:
Politicians and administrators
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Charles D. Parker (1827–1925), former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
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Charles H. Parker (1814–1890), Wisconsin legislator
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Charles Parker (Australian politician) (1896–1956), New South Wales politician
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Charles Parker (British politician), activist in the British National Party
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Charles Parker (New Zealand politician)
Charles Parker (4 March 1809 – 29 June 1898) was a New Zealand politician and a carpenter.
Early life
Parker was born at Newent, Gloucestershire, England, on 4 March 1809. His parents were Sarah Potter (17 November 1783 – 16 July 1876), a ...
(1809–1898), New Zealand politician and carpenter
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Charles Parker (Michigan politician)
Charles Parker (1877-1934) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11, 1934. Also killed were representatives D. Knox Hanna, T. H ...
(1877–1934), member of the Michigan House of Representatives
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Charlie Parker (Nova Scotia politician)
Charles Lewis Parker is a Canadian former educator and politician who represented the constituency of Pictou West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 1999, and from 2003 to 2013. He sat as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic P ...
(born 1951), NDP MLA for Pictou West in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Charles Stuart Parker
Charles Stuart Parker (1 June 1829 – 18 June 1910) was a British academic, writer and Liberal politician.
Life
Parker was the eldest son of Charles Stewart Parker (1800–1868), merchant, of Aigburth, Liverpool, and Fairlie, Ayrshire, and h ...
(1829–1909), British Member of Parliament for Perth, 1878–1892
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Charles William Parker (1912–1997), clergyman and politician in British Columbia, Canada
Sportsmen
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Charlie Parker (basketball)
Charlie Parker (born December 24, 1948) is an American basketball coach, currently the head coach for Taiwan men's national basketball team in FIBA Asia.
Coaching career
Parker is currently head coach for Taiwan's national basketball team. Park ...
(born 1948), American basketball coach
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Charlie Parker (cricketer)
Charles Warrington Leonard Parker (14 October 1882 – 11 July 1959) was an English cricketer, who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first-class cricket, behind Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman.
Life and career
Parker pa ...
(1882–1959), English cricketer
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Charlie Parker (footballer)
Charles William Parker (1 September 1891 – 1969) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Carlisle United, Stoke and Sunderland.
Club career
Parker was born in Seaham and played for local clubs Seaham Albion, Seaham H ...
(1891–1969), English footballer
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Charlie Parker (Canadian football), American-born Canadian football player
Cultural figures
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Charles Parker (producer)
Charles Parker (1919–1980) was a Bournemouth born, BBC Radio producer based in Birmingham from 1954-1972, who specialised in Documentary Radio and Theatre. In particular, he is remembered for his collaboration with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger o ...
(1919–1980), BBC Radio producer of the ''Radio Ballads''
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...
(1920–1955), jazz musician
Others
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Sir Charles Parker, 5th Baronet (1792–1869), British naval officer
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Charles Parker (VC)
Charles Edward Haydon Parker VC (10 March 1870 – 9 August 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Common ...
(1870–1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Charles S. Parker
Charles Stewart Parker (1882 - 1950) was head of the Department of Botany at Howard University (1932 to 1948). He carried out the first systematic study of American species of the fungal genus '' Hypholoma'' and also collected over 2000 plant sp ...
(died 1950), American botanist
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Charles Wolcott Parker
Charles Wolcott Parker (1862–1948) was a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1907 to 1947. He presided at the 1926 Hall–Mills murder trial and wrote a 1935 unanimous opinion upholding the Bruno Richard Hauptmann murder conviction.
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(1862–1948), judge in New Jersey
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Charles Edward Parker, American architect from Boston, Massachusetts
*Charles Wallace Parker, builder of the
C. W. Parker Carousel
The C. W. Parker Carousel is a carousel built in 1912 currently operating in the Burnaby Village Museum at Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, British Columbia. The carousel was built by the C. W. Parker Company and is also known as the Parker #119 and the ...
Characters
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Charles Parker (detective)
Sergeant/Inspector/Chief Inspector Charles Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and later becomes Lord Peter's brother-in-law.
Sayers works
He is first introduced in ''Wh ...
, fictional character created by Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
''McHale's Navy'' is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network. The series was filmed in black and white and originate ...
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See also
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Charles Parks (disambiguation)
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