Military
- Charles Aitchison Smith (1871–1940), Indian Army officer and administrator
- Charles Bean Smith, later Sir Charles Euan-Smith (1842–1910), British soldier and diplomat
- Charles Douglass Smith (c. 1761–1855), British army officer and colonial administrator
- Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862), Union General of the American Civil War
- Charles Hamilton Smith (1776–1859), British artist, soldier and spy
- Charles H. Smith (Medal of Honor) (1826–1898), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles Henry Smith (Medal of Honor) (1827–1902), American Civil War officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), Australian aviator in WWI and afterwards
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)