Charley (name)
Charley is an English unisex given name and a surname. As an English given name, it is a diminutive form of Charles and a feminine form of Charlie. Notable people known by this name include the following:
Given name
- Charley Ane, American gridiron football player
- Charley Armey, American football coach, scout, and executive
- Charley Aull, American gridiron football player
- Charley Aylett, Australian politician
- Charley Barden, British cyclist
- Charley Barnes, American gridiron football player
- Charley Barrett, American gridiron football player
- Charley Bassett, American baseball player
- Charley Belanger, Canadian boxer
- Charley Booker, American singer and guitarist
- Charley Boorman, English TV presenter, travel writer and actor
- Charley Borah, American sprint athlete
- Charley Boswell, American gridiron football player and blind golf player
- Charley Bowser, American football coach
- Charley Brewer , American gridiron football player
- Charles Brewer, American gridiron football player
- Charley Britt, American gridiron football player
- Charley Brock, American gridiron football player
- Charley Bryan, nickname of Charles S. Bryan, American infectious disease physician, researcher, and author
- Charley Burley, African American boxer
- Charley Casserly, American gridiron football sportscaster and executive
- Charley Chase, American comedian, screenwriter and film director
- Charley Cobb, American football coach
- Charlie Conerly, American gridiron football quarterback
- Charley Cowan, American gridiron football player
- Charley Crockett, Americana singer, guitarist, and songwriter
- Charley Czarnecki, nickname of Walter Czarnecki, American basketball player
- Charley Dewberry, American ichthyologists and author
- Charley Diamond, American gridiron football player
- Charley L. Diaz, United States Coast Guard captain
- Charley Dickens, nickname of Charles Dickens Jr., son of Charles Dickens
- Charley Donnelly, American educator, golfer, and college football and golf coach
- Charley Drayton, American multi-instrumental musician and producer
- Charley Eckman, American basketball coach, referee, broadcaster, and author and baseball player
- Charley Edge, Welsh footballer
- Charley Ellis, American boxer
- Charley Ewart, American gridiron football player
- Charley Ferrer, Puerto Rican Doctor of Human Sexuality
- Charley Feeney, American sportswriter
- Charley Ferguson, American gridiron football player
- Charley Roussel Fomen, Cameroonian footballer
- Charley Ford, nickname of Charles Ford , American outlaw, James Gang member, and brother of Robert Ford
- Charley Fox, Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant
- Charley Foy, American actor
- Charley Frazier, American gridiron football player
- Charley Fusari, Italian-American boxer
- Charley Genever, British poet
- Charley Goldman, Polish boxing trainer
- Charles Granger, American gridiron football player
- Charley Grapewin, American vaudeville performer and a stage and film actor
- Charley Griffith, American NASCAR driver
- Charley Hall, American baseball player
- Charley Hamrick, American gridiron football player
- Charley Hannah, American gridiron football player
- Charley Harper, American artist
- Charles Harraway, American gridiron football player
- Charley Hearn, English footballer
- Charley Hennigan or Charlie Hennigan, nicknames for Charles Taylor Hennigan, Sr.,, American gridiron football player
- Charley Henley, visual effects artist
- Charley Hoffman, American golfer
- Charley Horton, nickname of Charles Horton, American gridiron football player
- Charley Hughlett, American gridiron football player
- Charley Hull, English golfer
- Charley Hyatt, American basketball player
- Charley Eugene Johns, American politician
- Charley Johnson, American gridiron football player
- Charley Johnson , American wrestler
- Charley Jones, American baseball player
- Charley Jones , American gridiron football player
- Charley E. Jones, publisher of Charley Jones' Laugh Book Magazine
- Charley Jordan, America musician
- Charley Leundeu Keunang, 2015 police shooting victim
- Charley Koontz, American actor
- Charley Kurtsinger, nickname of Charles Kurtsinger, American jockey
- Charley Langer, American saxophonist and composer
- Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach
- Charley Lincoln, American musician
- Charley Lockhart, American politician and dwarf
- Charley Malone, American gridiron football player
- Charley Marcuse, American hot dog vendor
- Charley Marouani, Tunisian impresario and celebrity agent
- Charley McDowell, nickname of Charles McDowell Jr.,, American writer and syndicated columnist
- Charley McVeigh, Canadian ice hockey player
- Charley Mitchell , American gridiron football player
- Charley Mitchell , English boxer
- Charley Molnar, American football coach
- Charley Moore, American baseball player and manager
- Charley Moran, American baseball player and umpire and gridiron football coach
- Charley Morin, nickname of Charles R. Morin, American billiards player
- Charley Morgan, American sailboat racer and designer
- Charley O'Leary, American baseball player
- Charley Paddock, American sprint athlete
- Charley Parkhurst, American stagecoach driver, farmer and rancher
- Charley Patton, American musician
- Charley Pell, American gridiron football coach
- Charley Pettys, American-born, Filipino footballer
- Charley Pierce, American outlaw
- Charley Price, English cricketer
- Charley Pride, American country singer
- Charley Reese, American syndicated columnist
- Charley Retzlaff, American boxer
- Charley Reynolds, American scout
- Charley Riley, American boxer
- Charley Robinson, American gridiron football player
- Charley Rogers, English film actor, director and screenwriter
- Charley Rosen, American author and basketball coach
- Charley Phil Rosenberg or Charlie Phil Rosenberg professional names of Charles Green, American boxer
- Charley Ross, murder victim; first American kidnapping victim for purely ransom reason
- Charley Palmer Rothwell, English actor
- Charley Sarratt, American gridiron football player
- Charley Scales American gridiron football player
- Charley Scalies, American actor
- Charley Schanz, American baseball player
- Charley Seabright, American gridiron Football player
- Charley Shin, founder of Charleys Philly Steaks
- Charley Shipp, American basketball player and coach
- Charley Smith, American baseball player
- Charley Speed, British model and actor
- Charley Stanceu, American baseball player
- Charley Steinberg, nickname for Charles M. Steinberg, American immunobiologist
- Charley Steiner, American sportscaster
- Charley Stis, American baseball infielder, manager, scout and umpire
- Charley Stone English musician
- Charley Straight, American pianist, bandleader and composer
- Charley Suche, American baseball player
- Charley Taylor, American football player
- Charley Thomas, Canadian curler
- Charley Thornton, American college athletics administrator
- Charley Trudeau, nickname of Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau, Canadian entrepreneur, father of Pierre Trudeau and grandfather of Justin Trudeau
- Charley Toomey American lacrosse coach
- Charley Toorop, Dutch artist
- Charley Trippi, American football player
- Charley Tolar or Charlie Tolar, nickname for Charles Guy Tolar,, American gridiron football player
- Charley Trujillo, Chicano novelist, editor, publisher, and filmmaker
- Charley Turner, American boxer
- Charley Valera, American author
- Charley van de Weerd, Dutch football player
- Charley Walters, American baseball player
- Charley Warner, American gridiron football player
- Charley Way, American football player and coach
- Charley Webb of The Webb Sisters - one half of the Webb Sisters
- Charley Wensloff, American baseball player
- Charley White, English boxer
- Charley Wilkinson, American musician
- Charley Williams, American boxer
- Charley Winner, American gridiron football coach
- Charley Young, American gridiron football player
- Charley Zivic, American boxer
Nicknames
- Chilly Charley or Snarley Charley, pseudonyms for Charles Clark,, English publisher, farmer and satirist
- Mountain Charley
- "One Armed" Charley Monell, owner of Hole-in-the-Wall, New York City underworld saloon
- Piano Charley, nickname of Charles W. Bullard, American criminal
Surname
- Boston Charley, North American warrior
- Dele Charley, Sierra Leonean writer
- Germaine Charley, French actress
- Honest Charley, American businessman
- Peter Charley, Australian journalist, documentary film maker and television producer
- Reginald Charley, British flying ace
- Scarface Charley, chief of the Modoc tribe of Native Americans
- Simone Charley, American football player and athlete
- William Thomas Charley, British judge and politician
Fictional characters
- Charley, animated cat subject of 1970s and 1980s Charley Says cartoon information films from the British government's Central Office of Information, subject of Little Charley Bear BBC show
- Charley, subject of Canadian Charley and Mimmo series
- Charley, John Steinbeck's companion poodle for his 1962 travelogue Travels with Charley
- Charley, subject of Charley Skedaddle
- Charley Appleby, Fred MacMurray role opposite the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-nominated role in Charley and the Angel
- Charley Bates from Oliver Twist
- Charley Bones, from Mona the Vampire
- Charley Bourne, the protagonist in the comic strip Charley's War
- Charley Pollard, from the audio plays based on the television series Doctor Who
- Charley Shallow, a character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines prequel series Fever Crumb
- Charley Varrick, Walter Matthau BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role-winning character from Charley Varrick
- Charley Wykeham, Oxford University student character from Charley's Aunt, and its adaptations and derivatives
- Charley, Fred Williamson character in The Legend of Nigger Charley and The Soul of Nigger Charley
- Little Charley Bear, subject of Little Charley Bear BBC show