The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

* 1990 – Charlie McDermott, American actor

* 1920 – Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player ( d. 1971 )

* 1932 – Charlie O ' Donnell, American game show announcer ( d. 2010 )

* 1946 – Charlie Sanders, American football player

* 1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player ( d. 1983 )

* 1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer ( d. 1955 )

Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.

* 1939 – Charlie Rose, American politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1956 – Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter and producer

* 1975 – Charlie O ' Connell, American actor

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

* 1974 – Charlie Batch, American football player

* 1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler ( d. 1992 )

* 1927 – Charlie Callas, American comedian ( d. 2011 )

* 1932 – Charlie Rich, American musician ( d. 1995 )

* 1996 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1972 – Charlie Garner, American football player

* 1976 – Charlie Day, American actor

* 1954 – Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer ( d. 2006 )

Seven of the American League's 1937 All-Star players, from left to right Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg.

In Nashville, P. T. Gazell has an influential style, as does Charlie McCoy, an American music harmonicist.

* 1960 – Charlie Gillingham, American musician ( Counting Crows )

The Baltimore Suns Linda White recalled, " I followed the adventures of Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins and Dondi, and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football.

* 1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish football player

The 1910 season was marked by one of the most sensational transfers in Victorian football history, when Andy Curran masterminded the clearance of Carlton ’ s famed “ Big Four ” of ‘ Mallee ’ Johnson, Fred Jinks, Charlie Hammond and Frank ‘ Silver ’ Caine to North Melbourne.

* 1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player

On the ensuing kickoff, Vikings returner Charlie West fumbled the football, and Kansas City's Remi Prudhomme recovered it at Minnesota 19-yard line.

* Charlie Sanders, a former American football All-Pro, Pro Football Hall of Fame, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame player at the position of Tight end formerly for the Detroit Lions, attended Dudley High School.

* Charlie Jones ( American football ) ( born 1972 ), American football player

Other residents of note include musicians Brian Eno, Nate James and Charlie Simpson ; actors Brian Capron and Nicholas Pandolfi ; painter Thomas Churchyard ; director-general of the BBC Ian Jacob ; abolitionist John Clarkson ; Roy Keane the football manager, and Thomas Seckford, official at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.

* Charlie Strong, head coach with the University of Louisville football team

* Charlie Weis ( born 1956 ), ex-head coach of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team and MHS graduate.

* Charlie Frye, American football quarterback of the NFL ( Cleveland Browns, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders )

* Charlie Adams, former professional football player

* Charlie Gelbert-American football player ; member of the College Football Hall of Fame

American college football player and University of Miami coach Charlie Tate was born in Tracy City.

* Charlie Bradshaw ( American football )

* Charlie Garner, former American football player

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

* Lucy pleading Charlie Brown to kick the football, and subsequently pulling it away as he tries to do so, a staple in the comic strips since 1952.

* Charlie Sumner ( born 1930 ), American football player and coach

Despite this shortcoming, Charlie Brown realizes he has a golden opportunity to kick Lucy's infamous football without her usual prank of pulling it away at the last second.