Charles Wood may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Charles Erskine Scott Wood Charles Erskine Scott Wood or C.E.S. Wood (February 20, 1852January 22, 1944) was an American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, attorney, and Georgist. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, ''Heavenly D ...

(1852–1944), American author, activist, and attorney *Charles Osgood Wood III (1933-2024), a radio and television commentator, writer, and musician, known professionally as

Charles Osgood Charles Osgood Wood III (born January 8, 1933), known professionally as Charles Osgood, is an American radio and television commentator, writer and musician. Osgood is best known for being the host of ''CBS News Sunday Morning'', a role he held ...

Charles Wood (composer) Charles Wood (15 June 1866 – 12 July 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as an Anglican ...

(1866–1926), Irish composer and teacher *

Charles Wood (actor) Charles Wood (April 23, 1916 – May 29, 1978) was an American singer and actor. After moving to New York City from Redwood City, California, where he grew up, he appeared in five Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s. Early years Wood was b ...

(1916–1978), American singer and actor in Broadway musicals *

Charles Wood (playwright) Charles Gerald Wood (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. He lived in England. His work has been staged at the Royal National Theatre as well as at the Royal Court Theatre a ...

(1932–2020), British playwright and screenwriter *

Charlie Wood (musician) Charlie Wood is an American singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose style draws from a wide range of genres including soul, blues, traditional R&B, jazz and popular music. Biography Wood’s musical development was first influenced by his homet ...

, American singer, songwriter and keyboardist *Charlie Wood, English bassist for

Pale Waves Pale Waves are an English rock band from Manchester, formed in 2014. It was founded originally as Creek when lead singer and guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie met drummer Ciara Doran while attending university in Manchester. The other members are ...

*Charlie Wood, cofounder of the Northern Cree Singers

Politics

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (20 December 1800 – 8 August 1885), known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet, between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig politician and Member of the British Parliament. He served as Chancellor of the Excheq ...

(1800–1885), English politician *

Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, (7 June 1839 – 19 January 1934), was a British Anglo-Catholic ecumenist who served as president of the English Church Union from 1868 to 1919, and from 1927 to 1934. In 1886, he was a former part of ...

(1839–1934), English politician *

Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, (3 October 1912 – 19 March 1980), 4th Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton, 6th Baronet Wood of Barnsley in the County of York, and 2nd Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale in the County of York, was a ...

(1912–1980), British politician and peer

Sports

Charles Wood (jockey) Charles Wood (1854–1945) was an English flat racing jockey. Early career Born in the slums of Hull, he ran away aged 11, and became apprentice to Joseph Dawson in Newmarket, where he stayed for seven years. He won his first race in 18 ...

(1855–1945), British jockey *

Charles Winter Wood Charles Winter Wood (December 17, 1869 – June 9, 1953) was an American educator and actor who graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, WI. He was the second head football coach at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama and he held that positio ...

(1869–1953), football coach for Tuskegee University Golden Tigers * Charles Wood (footballer, born 1851),

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...

winner for the Royal Engineers A.F.C. *

Charlie Wood (footballer) Charles Hamilton Wood (born 5 October 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward. Career Wood began his career with Bradford City, captaining their youth team. He made his senior debut for Bradford City on 10 November 2 ...

(born 2002), English footballer

Other

Charles Wood (ironmaster) Charles Wood (1702 – October 1774) was an English ironmaster and one of the inventors of the potting and stamping method of making wrought iron from pig iron. Parents Charles Wood was the 7th of 15 children of William Wood of Wolverhampton an ...

(1702–1774), British chemist * Charles H. Wood (1837–1917), British chemist *

Charles Thorold Wood Charles Thorold Wood, senior (15 January 1777 – 13 March 1852) was an English army officer and country gentleman whose sons Charles Thorold Wood, junior (1817–1849) and Neville Wood (1818–25 March 1886) were ornithologists. Several acc ...

(1777–1852), English ornithologist *

Charles Wood (businessman) Charles R. Wood (1914 – September 30, 2004) was an American amusement park developer and philanthropist in Upstate New York. Biography Wood was born in Lockport, New York, in 1914. After seeing the amusement park Knott's Berry Farm in south ...

(1914–2004), American businessman *

Charles Chatworthy Wood Taylor Charles Chatworthy Wood Taylor, known in Chile as Carlos Wood, (25 April 1792 – 19 February 1856) was a painter, engineer, mariner, and military officer. He designed the Coat of arms of Chile, which was adopted by the government in 1834, inco ...

(1792–1856), English artist and engineer, designer of the coat of arms of Chile *

Charles Carroll Wood Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood (born 19 March 1876 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – died 11 November 1899 in Belmont, South Africa) was the first Canadian Officer to die in the Second Boer War. As a member of a family that had distinguished ...

(1876–1899), Canadian military officer

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