Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

Charlotte Kellogg was an American author and social activist. She was married to American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg.

Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsay, was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, translator, essayist, and magazine editor, who has primarily been remembered as the author of The Female Quixote, and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Richardson. However, she had a long, productive career in her own right.

Charlotte Niese was a German writer, poet and teacher.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.

Charlotte Smith was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England. She also helped to set conventions for Gothic fiction and wrote political novels of sensibility. Despite ten novels, four children's books and other works, she saw herself mainly as a poet and expected to be remembered for that.

Charmian London was an American writer and the second wife of Jack London.

Chauncey Brewster Tinker was a scholar of English Literature and Sterling Professor at Yale University.

Chester Arthur Phillips was an acting President of the University of Iowa, serving in 1940. Phillips Hall at the university is named for him.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel was a German poet and dramatist.