Charles Taylor most often refers to: *

Charles Taylor (Liberian politician) Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a former Liberian politician and convicted warlord who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003, as a result of the Second Liberi ...

(born 1948), warlord and 22nd president of Liberia *

Charles Taylor (philosopher) Charles Margrave Taylor (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, the histor ...

(born 1931), Canadian philosopher and social theorist Charles, Charlie, or Chuck Taylor may also refer to:

Actors, comedians, and theatrical professionals

Charles Taylor (actor) L. Charles Taylor is an American actor best known for the role of David Dalton in the ''Code of Vengeance'' television series. Taylor was born in the United States but he was an "air force brat" who spent his early childhood in Italy and moved ...

, American actor *

Charles H. Taylor (lyricist) Charles Henry Taylor (21 July 1859 – 27 June 1907) was a British lyricist, best known for his lyrics for early-20th-century West End musical comedies and a comic opera, '' Tom Jones''. Life and career Charles H. Taylor was born in Manchester, ...

(1859–1907), British lyricist * Charles "Rip" Taylor (1935–2019), American actor and comedian *

Charles W. Taylor Charles Western Taylor ( - April 11, 1874), often billed as C. W. Taylor, was a well-known actor and dramatist in the United States in the mid-19th century. He is best known today, though only as a footnote, for writing one of the first stage ada ...

(1800–1874), American actor and dramatist

Journalists

Charles H. Taylor (publisher) Charles Henry Taylor (July 14, 1846 – June 22, 1921) was an American journalist and politician. He created the modern ''Boston Globe'', acting as its publisher starting in 1873. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in ...

(1846–1921), American newspaper publisher and politician * Charles P. B. Taylor (1935–1997), Canadian journalist, author, and horsebreeder * Chuck Taylor (journalist, born 1957), American journalist *

Chuck Taylor (music journalist) Chuck Taylor (born September 28, 1962 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States) is an American music journalist. He served as a reporter, senior writer, columnist and senior editor at ''Billboard'' magazine from 1995 to 2009. There, he held the tit ...

(born 1962), American music journalist

Politicians

* Charles Taylor (Australian politician) (1861–1944), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly *

Charles Taylor (Conservative politician) Sir Charles Stuart Taylor (10 April 1910 – 29 March 1989) was an English businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1935 to 1974. He was the son of Alfred George Taylor and Mary Kirwan. His elder brother was ...

(1910–1989), English politician and MP for Eastbourne *

Charles Taylor (MP for Totnes) Charles Taylor ( – 1766), of Maridge, near Totnes, Devon, was an English barrister and politician. He was the eldest son of attorney Charles Taylor of Ugborough and Totnes, Devon, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He entered the Middle ...

(1693–1766), English politician *

Charles H. Taylor Charles H. Taylor may refer to: * Charles Taylor (North Carolina politician) (born 1941), US congressman from North Carolina * Charles H. Taylor (Michigan politician) (1813–1889), American politician who served as the Michigan Secretary of State ...

(born 1941), former US Congressman from North Carolina *

(1846–1921), American newspaper publisher and politician *

Charles John Taylor Charles John Taylor (1826 – 22 April 1897) was a New Zealand politician. He was the second son of General Taylor (1790–1868) who owned land at west Tamaki, now absorbed into the Auckland suburban area. Charles was a judge in India bef ...

(1826–1897), New Zealand politician *

Charles Keith Taylor Charles Keith Taylor (born 23 June 1931) was a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a lawyer by profession. Keith Taylor was born at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. ...

(born 1931), Canadian politician *

Charles Simeon Taylor Charles Simeon Taylor (October 13, 1851 – June 19, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician Born in the town of Geneva, Walworth County, Wisconsin, Taylor went to University of Wisconsin and then graduated from Whitewater Normal School ( ...

(1851–1913), Wisconsin politician *

Charles Wiley Taylor Charles Wiley Taylor (January 11, 1786 – December 5, 1865) was an American physician and politician. He was born on January 11, 1786, in Norwalk, Connecticut, the youngest son of the farmers Ahijah and Isabella (Wiley) Taylor. He graduated from ...

(1786–1865), Connecticut politician

Scholars

Charles Taylor (Hebraist) Charles Taylor (1840–1908) was an English Christian Hebraist. Life Taylor was born on 27 May 1840 in London. He was educated at King's College School, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a ...

(1840–1908), English Hebraist *

Charles Taylor (physicist) Charles Alfred Taylor (1922–2002) was a British physicist well known for his work in crystallography and his efforts to promote science to young audiences. Early life Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922. Education He began his degr ...

(1922–2002), British physicist *

Charles E. Taylor (engineer) Charles E. Taylor (March 24, 1924 — December 18, 2017) was an American engineer. He was a Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM) Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was known as Chuck. Education Taylor ...

(1924–2017), American engineer *

Charles Richard Taylor Charles Richard Taylor (8 September, 1939–10 September, 1995) was an American biologist whose career focused on animal physiology. After conducting work in east Africa, Taylor became the Charles P. Lyman professor of biology at Harvard Universit ...

(1939–1995), American biologist * Charles V. Taylor (1918–2009), Australian linguist *

Charles Vincent Taylor Charles Vincent Taylor (8 February 1885 – 22 February 1946) was an American biologist and a professor at Stanford University. He contributed to studies on protozoa, innovating micro-manipulation and dissection techniques for their study. Taylor w ...

(1885–1946), American biologist

Sportspeople

American football players and coaches

Charles F. Taylor Charles F. "Rick" Taylor (born September 19, 1941) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He was the most successful head coach Boston University history after his stint from 1977 to 1984. He compiled an overall r ...

or Rick Taylor (born 1941), American college football coach and athletic director *

Charley Taylor Charles Robert Taylor (September 28, 1941 – February 19, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for 13 seasons with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college foo ...

(1941–2022), American professional football player *

Chuck Taylor (American football) Charles Albert Taylor (January 24, 1920 – May 7, 1994) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at Stanford University from 1940 to 1942, returned as head football coach from 1951 t ...

(1920–1994), American college football player, coach, and administrator

Association football players

Charles Asampong Taylor Charles Kweku Bismark Taylor Asampong (born 14 July 1981 in Sefwi, Western Region) is a former Ghanaian professional footballer who played as a striker or an attacking midfielder. He had his greatest playing days and is one of the few players ...

(born 1981), Ghanaian football player *

Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1985) Charlie James Taylor (born 1 December 1985) is a professional footballer who was last attached to Billericay Town. Career Taylor started his career as a trainee with Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest, before dropping into ...

, English footballer *

Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1993) Charles James Taylor (born 18 September 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left back for club Burnley. He is a former England U19 international. Club career Early career Born in York, North Yorkshire, Taylor attended T ...

, English footballer

Cricketers

Charles Taylor (cricketer, born 1816) Charles George Taylor (21 November 1816 – 10 September 1869) was an English cricketer in the mid-19th century who played, as an amateur, mainly for Sussex and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), having begun his career at Cambridge University. Tayl ...

(1816–1869), English cricketer *

Charles Taylor (cricketer, born 1881) Charles James Taylor (8 June 1881 – 25 August 1960) was an English cricketer active in the latter half of the first decade of the 1900s, later playing intermittently through the 1920s to the early 1930s. Born at Bedminster, Bristol, Tayl ...

(1881–1960), English cricketer *

Charles Taylor (cricketer, born 1966) Charles William Taylor (born 12 August 1966) is a former English cricketer. Taylor was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium-fast. He was born at Banbury, Oxfordshire. Taylor first appeared in county cricket for Oxfordshire, making ...

, English former cricketer *

Charlie Taylor (cricketer) Charlie Taylor (5 April 1918 – 9 May 2000) was a Barbadian cricketer. He played in sixteen first-class matches for the Barbados cricket team from 1941 to 1952. See also * List of Barbadian representative cricketers This is a list of a ...

(1918–2000), Barbadian cricketer

Other sportspeople

* Charles Taylor (rugby union) (1863–1915), Welsh rugby union international player * Charles "Bud" Taylor (1903–1962), American boxer *

Charles Isham Taylor Charles Isham Taylor (January 20, 1875 – February 23, 1922) was an American second baseman, manager and executive in Negro league baseball. Born in Anderson, South Carolina, he was the oldest among four sons of a Methodist minister—including ...

(1875–1922), American baseball player and manager and co-founder of the Negro National League * Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1878) (1878–1960), Australian rules footballer for Melbourne, Carlton, and St Kilda *

Charlie Taylor (footballer, born 1884) Charles Everate Taylor (6 October 1884 – 13 June 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links

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(1884–1953), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy * Charlie Taylor (rugby league) (1921–2013), English rugby league footballer *

Chuck Taylor (baseball) Charles Gilbert Taylor (April 18, 1942 – June 5, 2018) was an American professional baseball player who played in the Major League Baseball as a relief pitcher from 1969 to 1976 for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers and ...

(1942–2018), American baseball player *

Chuck Taylor (salesman) Charles Hollis Taylor (June 24, 1901 – June 23, 1969) was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman/ product marketer who is best known for his association with the Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote. ...

(1901–1969), American basketball player and shoe salesman *

Chuck Taylor (wrestler) Dustin Lee Howard (born April 22, 1986) is an American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), competing under the ring name Chuck Taylor. He is a member of Best Friends (professional wrestling), Best Friends alongside Trent Be ...

(born 1986), American professional wrestler

Others

Charles McArther Emmanuel Charles McArther Emmanuel (born February 12, 1978), also known as Chuckie Taylor, is the son of Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia.Charles Frederick Taylor Charles Frederick Taylor (February 6, 1840 – July 2, 1863) was an American soldier who served as Colonel (United States), colonel and commanding officer of the Union Army's 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment (known as the Bucktails), which fo ...

(1840–1863), American soldier and

Union Army During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. st ...

colonel killed in action at the

Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg () was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. In the battle, Union Major General George Meade's Army of the Po ...

Charles Taylor (calico printer and dyer) Charles Taylor (died 1816) was a Manchester calico printer and dyer, who later became Secretary of the Society of Arts. Biography Little is known about his origins, but he was an M. D. He was a partner in the Manchester firm of Taylor and Maxwell ...

(died 1816), English businessman, pioneer of textiles bleaching with chlorine *

Charles Taylor (cavalryman) Charles Taylor (1840 – August 3, 1899) was an American cavalry soldier and Medal of Honor recipient. He was cited for "gallantry in action" in the Battle of Big Dry Wash in the Apache Wars in the Arizona Territory in 1882, for which he recei ...

(1840–1899), American cavalryman *

Charles Taylor (engraver) Charles Taylor (1756–1823) was an English engraver, known also as a man of letters and biblical scholar. Life Born in the parish of Shenfield in Essex on 1 February 1756, he was the son of Isaac Taylor by his wife, Sarah Hackshaw, daughter of J ...

(1756–1823), English engraver *

Charlie Taylor (mechanic) Charles Edward Taylor (May 24, 1868 – January 30, 1956) was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers in the ''Wright Flyer'', and was a vital contributor of mechanical ski ...

(1868–1956), American mechanic for the Wright brothers, built the first aircraft engine *

Charles Taylor (priest) Charles William Taylor was Dean of Peterborough from 2007 to 2016. Taylor was born into an ecclesiastical family on 16 March 1953 and educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School; Marlborough College; Selwyn College, Cambridge; and Ripon Coll ...

(born 1953), English Anglican priest * Charles Taylor Jr. (born 1943), American author *

Charles Carroll Taylor Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight fro ...

(1917–1945), American pilot, leader of ill-fated Flight 19 * Charles L. Taylor (died 1922), American industrialist and friend of Andrew Carnegie * Charles William Gray Taylor (1879–1950), Scottish Presbyterian minister