Charles Richardson may refer to:

Sportspeople

• Charles Richardson (umpire) (1853–1925), English Test cricket umpire
• Charles Richardson (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1949), Australian-born New Zealand cricketer
• Charles Richardson (Essex cricketer) (1885–1948), English cricketer who played for Essex
• Charles Richardson (Lincolnshire cricketer) (born 1946), former English cricketer who played for Lincolnshire
• Charlie Richardson (American football) (1906–1977), former blocking back in the National Football League

Other

• Charles Richardson (Royal Navy officer) (1769–1850), British admiral
• Charles Lennox Richardson (1834–1862), British merchant
• Charles Leslie Richardson (1908–1994), British Army general
• Charles Douglas Richardson (1853–1932), Australian artist
• Charles Richardson (civil engineer) (1814–1896), British civil engineer
• Charles Richardson (cement merchant) (1819–1878), British businessman
• Charles Richardson (Australian politician) (fl. 1861), New South Wales politician
• Charles Richardson (Upper Canada politician) (1805–1848), lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada
• Charles Richardson (lexicographer) (1775–1865), English teacher, lexicographer and linguist
• Charlie Richardson (1934–2012), British mobster
• a stage name sometimes used by Marius Goring (1912–1998)
• Charles Parks Richardson (born 1971), American entrepreneur, doctor and inventor
• Charles S. Richardson (1854–1904), first president of South Dakota's normal school, Madison Normal, that later became Dakota State University
• Charles C. Richardson (born 1935), American biochemist and professor
• Charles "Sis Doc" Richardson, American dentist, co-founder of Chi Omega sorority