Charles Howard may refer to:

Dukes

• Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk (1720–1786), English peer and Earl Marshal, 1777–1786
• Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746–1815), his son, British MP for Carlisle and Arundel, Earl Marshal, 1786–1815

Earls

• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536–1624), English Lord Steward and Lord High Admiral
• Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham (1579–1642), his son, English peer and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey
• Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham (1610–1681), his brother, English peer
• Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire (1615–1679), English MP for Oxford
• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle (1629–1685), English MP for Cumberland, and Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica
• Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk (1685–1733), Irish MP for Carlow Borough
• Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (1669–1738), English MP for Morpeth and First Lord of the Treasury
• Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk (1693–1722), British peer
• Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk (1805–1876), British MP for Malmesbury
• Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow (1839–1881), Earl of Wicklow
• Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle (1867–1912), soldier and English MP for Birmingham South
• Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk (1906–1941), English peer and bomb disposal expert
• Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle (1923–1994), English peer

Politics and military

• Charles Howard (courtier), gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England, 1500s
• Charles Howard (Windsor MP) (c. 1591–1653), English MP for Bletchingley (1610), New Windsor (1621), Gatton (1625)
• Charles Howard (British Army officer) (c. 1696–1765), British general, son of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle
• Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth (1719–1741), British Member of Parliament
• Charles Howard (British politician) (1814–1879), British Member of Parliament, 1840–1879
• Charles Howard (Detroit) (1804–1883), Mayor of Detroit, Michigan, 1849
• Charles Henry Howard (1838–1880), Union Army officer during American Civil War, newspaper publisher
• Charles Tisdale Howard (1856–1936), member of the South Dakota House of Representatives
• Charles John Howard (1862–?), American politician in Ohio
• Charles W. Howard (Union Navy officer) (died 1863), namesake of USS Howard
• Charles Benjamin Howard (1885–1964), Canadian Member of Parliament
• Charles F. Howard (1942–2017), Texas state representative

Sports

• Charles Howard (cricketer, born 1823) (1823–1908), English cricketer who played for Kent
• Charles Howard (cricketer, born 1904) (1904–1982), English cricketer who played for Middlesex
• Charlie Howard (footballer) (born 1989), English professional footballer
• Doc Howard (Charles Howard, 1873–1904), American baseball player

Other

• Charles Howard (FRS) (1630–1713), Original Fellow of the Royal Society on List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1663
• Charles Beaumont Howard (1807–1843), colonial clergyman in South Australia
• Charles Howard (Marist Brother) (1924–2012), Australian clergyman, leader of Marist Brothers religious order
• Charles T. Howard (1832–1885), founded the Louisiana State Lottery Company, philanthropist
• Charles Howard (police officer) (1833–1909), English Assistant Commissioner of London police, 1890–1902
• Charles Howard (photographer) (1842–?), American soldier and photographer
• Charles S. Howard (1877–1950), American automobile entrepreneur and owner of race horse Seabiscuit
• Charles P. Howard (1879-1938), American labor union leader
• Charles Howard Candler Sr. (1879–1957), twice president of the Coca-Cola Company, 1916 and 1920–1923
• Charles W. Howard (1896–1966), American actor who appeared as Santa Claus in department stores
• Charlie Howard (murder victim) (1961–1984), killed in assault in Bangor, Maine, for homosexuality