Notable inmates

Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED (10 November 1908 – 12 July 2000) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.

Charles Chi-tat Ng (born Ng Chi-tat) (Chinese: 吳志達; born 24 December 1960) is a Hong Kong-born convicted serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States.

Charles Ponzi (; Italian: [ˈpontsi]; born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; 3 March 1882 – 18 January 1949) was an Italian charlatan and con artist who operated in the United States and Canada.

Charles Jean Rigoulot (3 November 1903 – 22 August 1962) was a French weightlifter, professional wrestler, racing driver, strongman and actor. Rigoulot was born in Le Vesinet, France and began to train with weights as a child.

Charles Louis Sadron (12 May 1902 – 5 September 1993), was a French physicist who specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.

Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj; 6 April 1944) is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s.

Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old.

Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician.

Charles Denton "Tex" Watson (born December 2, 1945) is an American convicted mass murderer and former central member of the "Manson Family" led by Charles Manson.

Charles Thomas Wooldridge (1864 – 7 July 1896) was a Trooper in the Royal Horse Guards who was executed in Reading Gaol for uxoricide and who, as 'C.T.W', was the dedicatee of Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Charles Hazlitt Upham (21 September 1908 – 22 November 1994) was a New Zealand soldier during the Second World War.

Charles Frederick Wilson (30 June 1932 – 23 April 1990) was an English career criminal.

Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793.

Charlotte Delbo (10 August 1913 – 1 March 1985) was a French writer chiefly known for her memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French Resistance.

Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist.

Charlotte Eisenblätter (7 August 1903 – 25 August 1944) was a German anti-Nazi activist and freedom fighter.

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Charlotte Joël (1882 or 1887–1943) was a German photographer.

Charlotte Augusta Leopoldine Marsh (3 March 1887 – 21 April 1961), known as Charlie Marsh, was a militant British suffragette.