Charles Parker
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Charles Parker or Charlie Parker may refer to:
- Charlie ParkerCharlie ParkerCharles Parker, Jr. , famously called Bird or Yardbird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer....
, jazz musician - Charlie Parker (politician)Charlie Parker (politician)C. L. Parker is a Canadian politician and member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represents the constituency of Pictou West for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party....
, NDP MLA for Pictou West in Nova Scotia, Canada - Charlie Parker (cricketer)Charlie Parker (cricketer)Charles Warrington Leonard "Charlie" Parker 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 took no serious attention to cricket in his childhood, preferring to concentrate...
- Charlie Parker (footballer)Charlie Parker (footballer)Charlie Parker was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Carlisle United, Stoke, Sunderland and on one occasion, for England, as a central defender.-Club career:...
, English footballer - Charlie Parker (basketball coach)Charlie Parker (basketball coach)-Coaching career:Parker was an assistant coach for the New Orleans Hornets in 2006–2007. His previous coaching position was at the Dallas Mavericks, where he was an assistant coach for ten seasons . Prior to that, he coached the USC Trojans. Parker was head coach at Wayne State from 1982-88...
- Charles Parker (New Zealand)Charles Parker (New Zealand)Charles Parker JP 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 , a weaver, and her husband, Edmund Parker , a builder...
, politician - Charles Parker (producer), BBC Radio producer of the Radio Ballads
- Charles Parker (UK politician)Charles Parker (UK politician)Charles Parker was a leading member of the British National Party in its early years and provided the group with much of its funding.A leading businessman in Brighton, Parker and his wife joined the British National Front in 1975...
, activist in the British National Party - Charles D. ParkerCharles D. ParkerCharles Durwin Parker was a Wisconsin politician. He was born in New Hampshire in 1827; his family moved to Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1836. He served as a Democrat in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1869 to 1870 and served two terms as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, from 1874 until 1878...
, former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin - Charles Parker (VC) (1870–1918), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Sir Charles Parker, 5th BaronetSir Charles Parker, 5th BaronetAdmiral Sir Charles Christopher Parker, 5th Baronet was a British naval officer, the son of Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron, and grandson of Admirals Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet and John Byron....
(1792–1869), British naval officer - Charles Parker (army), American Ranger
- Charles Parker (photographer), introduced hand-colouringHand-colouringHand-colouring refers to any method of manually adding colour to a black-and-white photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the photograph or for artistic purposes...
to Japan - Charles Wallace Parker, builder of the C. W. Parker CarouselC. W. Parker CarouselThe 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 Burnaby Centennial Parker Carousel. The carousel...
- Charley Parker, DC Comics character Golden Eagle IGolden Eagle (comics)Golden Eagle is the name of two fictional characters published by DC Comics. The first Golden Eagle was introduced in Justice League of America #116 , and was created by Cary Bates and Dick Dillin. He joined Titans West in Teen Titans Golden Eagle is the name of two fictional characters...
- Charlie Parker, a fictional former police officer in a series of crime novels by John Connolly (author)John Connolly (author)John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.-Life and works:...
- Charles Parker (detective)Charles Parker (detective)Charles Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and eventually becomes Lord Peter's brother-in-law.He is first introduced in Whose Body? as a Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard...
, fictional character created by Dorothy L. Sayers - Charles Stuart ParkerCharles Stuart ParkerCharles Stuart Parker was a British academic, writer and Liberal politician.Parker was the eldest son of the Charles Stuart Parker, merchant, of Aigburth, Liverpool, and Fairlie, Ayrshire, and his wife Anne Sandbach. He was educated at Eton and at University College, Oxford. After obtaining a...
, British Member of Parliament for Perth, 1878–1892 - Charles Parker (1847-1931), painter orientalist, studied at Beaux-Arts in Paris