Charley Patton (notable blues musician); Charley Chase (American comic/actor/screenwriter/director); Charley Boorman (actor); Charley Steiner (sportscaster); Charley Grapewin (vaudeville actor); Charley Paddock (Olympic athlete); Charley Riley (boxer); Charley Straight (bandleader/composer); Charley Trippi (football player); Charley Pell (college football coach); Charley Pride (country music singer); Charley Steinbeck (Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck’s famous French standard poodle)