Charles Jones
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Arts, architecture, scholarship
- Charles Jones (architect)Charles Jones (architect)Charles Jones was Ealing's first architect, engineer and surveyor. He held these posts for fifty years.He is admired to this day, by both local residents and visitors, for his pleasing, well proportioned and functional civic buildings....
(1830–1913), Ealing's first architect, engineer and surveyor - Charles Jones (photographer)Charles Jones (photographer)Charles Harry Jones was an English gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables.Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and...
(1866–1959), gardener and photographer - Chuck JonesChuck JonesCharles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...
(1912–2002), American animator, director, and producer - Charlie Jones (actor)Charlie Jones (actor)Charlie George Jones is a young English actor. Jones has been a student in the Anna Fiorentini theater and drama school.He is probably best known for his portrayal of Ben Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which he played for four years from 2006 to 2010. According to the Internet Movie...
, EastEnders actor - Charlie Jones (musician)Charlie Jones (musician)Charlie Jones is a British bassist, songwriter and record producer. He has toured and recorded with Robert Plant, Page and Plant, The Strange Sensation, Goldfrapp and many others. He was married to Robert Plant's daughter Carmen Plant, they divorced in 2010....
- bass-guitarist - Charles Jones (composer)Charles Jones (composer)Charles Jones was a Canadian-born composer of contemporary classical music.Jones was born in Tamworth, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Toronto at the age of ten, eventually traveling to New York City in 1928. He studied at The Juilliard School, where his primary...
(1910–1997), Canadian composer - Charles Jones (artist) R.A. (aka Charles Sheep Jones)
Politics, law, military
- Charles W. JonesCharles W. JonesCharles William Jones was a United States Senator from Florida. He abandoned the seat after an apparent onset of mental illness.-Early life, travel and career:...
(1834–1897), U.S. Senator from Florida - Charles Alvin JonesCharles Alvin JonesCharles Alvin Jones was a United States federal judge and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....
(1887–1966), U.S. federal judge - Charles Jones (Australian politician)Charles Jones (Australian politician)Charles Keith Jones AO was an Australian politician and government minister.He was Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation in the Second Whitlam Ministry and Minister for Transport in the Third Whitlam Ministry.Commonly known as "Charlie",...
(1917–2003) - Charles Jones (Victorian politician)Charles Jones (Victorian politician)Charles Edwin Jones was an Australian politician.Jones was born in Devonport in England to Welsh tailor John Jones and Elizabeth, née Tucker, becoming a tailor like his father. He became involved in radical and temperance causes and vigorously opposed Roman Catholicism...
(1828–1903) - Charles Jones (loyalist), Canadian merchant, politician
- Charles E. JonesCharles E. JonesCharles E. Jones was the 26th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from August 1947 until September 1948. He was born in Whitby, England and moved to Vancouver in 1905. It is uncertain whether the Whitby of his birth was the fishing port in Yorkshire, or the district of Whitby in Ellesemere Port...
(1881–1948), mayor of Vancouver - Charles E. Jones (judge)Charles E. Jones (judge)Charles Edward Jones, Jr. was a member of the Arizona Supreme Court. He served as an associate judge on that court from 1996 to 2002 and then as the chief justice of the court from 2002 to 2005...
(born 1935) was the chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court from 2002–2005 - Charles Jones, 5th Viscount RanelaghCharles Jones, 5th Viscount RanelaghCaptain Charles Jones, 5th Viscount Ranelagh, RN was a British Royal Navy officer and Irish peer of the late-eighteenth century who served on the Ireland station in but died aged 39 from illness during his military service....
, (1761–1800), Irish peer and Royal Navy officer - Charles Phibbs JonesCharles Phibbs JonesGeneral Sir Charles Phibbs Jones GCB CBE MC was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1950s.-Military career:Charles Jones was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1925...
, (1906–1988), British Army General - Charles Pinckney JonesCharles Pinckney JonesCharles Pinckney Jones was born in Monterey, Highland County, Virginia on September 17, 1845 and died in Monterey Virginia on February 22nd, 1914. He served as a private for the Confederate States Army. He was attached to the 18th Virginia Calvary and according to the Fort Stevens Confederate order...
, (1845-1914), Virginia House of Delegates, 1883-1885. Virginia State Senator from 1885-1897. The last Rector of the University of Virginia from 1898-1906.
Religion
- Charles Colcock JonesCharles Colcock JonesCharles Colcock Jones, Sr. was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia....
(1804–1863), Presbyterian clergyman, planter, and missionary to slaves - Charles Price JonesCharles Price JonesCharles Price Jones, Sr. . He was a religious leader and hymnist. He was the founder of the Church of Christ U.S.A.....
(1865–1949), minister and composer
Sports
- Charlie Jones (American football), American football player
- Charley JonesCharley JonesCharles Wesley Jones was an American left fielder in the National Association and Major League Baseball who hit 56 home runs and batted .298 during his twelve-year career...
(1850–?), U.S. baseball outfielder - Charlie Jones (infielder)Charlie Jones (infielder)Charles F. Jones was an American professional baseball player. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball for the 1884 Brooklyn Atlantics....
(1861–1922), baseball infielder - Charles Leander Jones, known as Bumpus JonesBumpus JonesCharles Leander Jones was a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants...
(1870-1938), 1890s baseball pitcher - Charlie Jones (outfielder)Charlie Jones (outfielder)Charles Claude Jones was a utility player in Major League Baseball who played with four different teams between the and seasons including the Boston Americans and Chicago White Sox...
(1876–1947), baseball outfielder - Charles Jones (basketball, born 1957) known as "Gadget" Jones, U.S. basketball player with Washington Bullets (1985–93) and Houston Rockets
- Charles Jones (basketball, born 1962)Charles Jones (basketball, born 1962)Charles Alexander Jones is a retired American basketball player who played for four seasons in the National Basketball Association. Primarily a forward, he played for the Phoenix Suns, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Washington Bullets during his NBA career.Jones was born and raised in...
, U.S. basketball player whose teams included Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers and Washington Bullets (1988–89) - Charles Rahmel JonesCharles Rahmel JonesCharles Rahmel Jones is an American professional basketball player, formerly of the NBA.Jones attended Rutgers University and Long Island University, before spending two seasons in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Clippers . Afterwards, he played overseas, notably in...
(born 1975), U.S. basketball player with Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Clippers - Charles Jones (footballer born 1888)Charles Jones (footballer born 1888)Charles T. Jones was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham.Jones was born in the Moseley district of Birmingham. An outside left, described as "speedy but not particularly accurate with his crosses", he began his football career with his works team before joining...
(1888–after 1909), English-born football outside left who played for Birmingham and Bristol Rovers - Charlie Jones (footballer born 1899) (1899–1966), Welsh international footballer whose clubs included Oldham, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal
- Charlie Jones (footballer born 1911)Charlie Jones (footballer born 1911)Charles 'Charlie' Jones was a Welsh professional footballer who played for Ebbw Vale, Northfleet United, Tottenham Hotspur and Southend United.- Football career :...
(1911–?), Welsh-born footballer who played for Tottenham and Southend in the 1930s - Charles Wilson Jones, known as Wilson Jones (footballer)Wilson Jones (footballer)Charles Wilson Jones was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an centre-forward for Wrexham, Birmingham and Nottingham Forest in the Football League, and for Wales at international level....
(1914–1986), Welsh international football centre forward who played for Wrexham and Birmingham - Charles Jones (cricketer)Charles Jones (cricketer)Charles Ernest Llewellyn Jones - A competent batsman and a useful slow left-arm bowler, Charles Jones was born in British Guiana on 3 November 1902 and died there on 10 December 1959, aged 57. He made his first-class debut in October 1925 in the Inter-Colonial match against Barbados in which his...
(1902–1959), West Indian cricketer - Charlie Jones (sportscaster)Charlie Jones (sportscaster)Charlie Jones was an American Emmy Award-winning sportscaster for NBC and ABC.-Education:Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Jones earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California and a law degree at the University of Arkansas.-American Football League/National Football...
(1930–2008), American sports announcer - Charles Jones (sportsman)Charles Jones (sportsman)Charles Ian McMillan Jones is a former English cricketer and field hockey player. In cricket, Jones' batting style is unknown, but it is known that he bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire....
(1934-), English cricketer and field hockey player
Other notable figures
- Charles Jones (astronaut) (1952–2001), former member of NASA's astronaut group, victim of the September 11, 2001, attacks
- Charlie Jones (Tlingit) Chief ShakesChief ShakesChief Shakes is a distinguished Tlingit leadership title passed down through generations.-Origin:The orphan Gush X’een lived at Ch’aal’in. He was a Teikweidí named Joonák’w. The leader of the Naanya.aayí, S.nóok, took a liking to the orphaned boy and raised him as a nephew...
VII of the Tlingit people