| Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English Positivist |
| William Congreve (1670–1729), English dramatist, the greatest English master of pure comedy |
| Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), British artillerist and inventor |
| John Conington (1825–1869), English classical scholar |
| Roscoe Conkling (1829–1888), American lawyer and political leader |
| Bernard Connor (1666?–1698), English physician |
| John Conolly (1794–1866), English physician |
| Conon (d. c. 390 B.C.), Athenian general |
| Conon (Third Century B.C.), Greek astronomer and geometrician |
| Conon (First Century B.C.–First Century A.D.), grammarian and mythographer |
| Conrad I. (c. 890–918), German King |
| Conrad II. (c. 990–1039), Roman Emperor |
| Conrad III. (1093–1152), German King |
| Conrad IV. (1228–1254), German King |
| Conrad the Red (d. 955), Duke of Lorraine |
| Conrad of Marburg (c. 1180–1233), German inquisitor |
| Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), English novelist |
| Robert Taylor Conrad (1810–1858), American lawyer with a taste for authorship |
| Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925), Austrian field-marshal |
| Conradin (1252–1268), King of Jerusalem and Sicily |
| Valentin Conrart (1603–1675), one of the founders of the French Academy |
| Emma Cons (1838–1912), English philanthropist |
| Ercole Consalvi (1757–1824), Italian Cardinal and statesman |
| Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883), Flemish writer |
| Victor Considerant (1808–1893), French socialist |
| Archibald Constable (1774–1827), Scottish publisher |
| Henry Constable (1562–1613), English poet |
| John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter |
| Sir Marmaduke Constable (c. 1455–1518), English soldier |
| Jean Constans (1833–1913), French statesman |
| Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), French writer and politician |
| Benjamin Constant (1845–1902), French painter |
| Constantine the Great (d. 337), Roman Emperor |
| Constantine, name of several Roman and Later Roman emperors |
| Constantine (d. 411), usurper in Britain, Gaul and Spain |
| Constantine I. (1868–1923), King of the Hellenes |
| Constantine Pavlovich (1779–1831), Grand-duke and Cesarevich of Russia |
| Constantius I. (c. 250–306), Roman Emperor |
| Contarini, name of a distinguished Venetian family |
| Louise Contat (1760–1813), French actress |
| Nicolas Jacques Conté (1755–1805), French mechanical genius, chemist and painter |
| Princes of Conti |
| Niccolò de’ Conti (c. 1395–1469), Venetian explorer and writer |
| Henry Seymour Conway (1721–1795), English field marshal and statesman |
| Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus) (1847–1885), English novelist |
| Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907), American clergyman and author |
| Thomas Conway (1735–c. 1800), Irish soldier of fortune |
| Sir William Martin Conway (1856–1937), English traveller and man of letters |
| John Conybeare (1692–1755), learned English divine |
| William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), Dean of Llandaff, one of the most distinguished of English geologists |
| William John Conybeare (1815–1857), English divine |
| Sir John Coode (1816–1892), English engineer |
| Albert Stanburrough Cook (1853–1927), American scholar |
| Dutton Cook (1829–1883), English dramatic critic and author |
| Sir Edward Tyas Cook (1857–1919), English journalist and man of letters |
| Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English author |
| James Cook (1728–1779), English naval captain and explorer |
| Sir Joseph Cook (1860–1947), Australian politician |
| Thomas Cook (1808–1892), English travelling agent |
| George Frederick Cooke (1756–1812), English actor |
| George Willis Cooke (1848–1923), American Unitarian preacher and author |
| Jay Cooke (1821–1905), American financier |
| John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), Confederate soldier and Virginian novelist |
| Josiah Parsons Cooke (1827–1894), American chemist |
| Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892), American writer |
| Philip St. George Cooke (1809–1895), American military officer |
| William Cookworthy (1705–1780), English potter |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824–1898), American jurist |
| Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), thirtieth President of the United States |
| Abraham Cooper (1787–1868), English animal and battle painter |
| Alexander Cooper (1605–1660), English miniature painter |
| Sir Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon |
| Charles Henry Cooper (1808–1866), English antiquary |
| James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American novelist |
| Myles Cooper (1737–1785), English clergyman |
| Peter Cooper (1791–1883), American manufacturer, inventor and philanthropist |
| Samuel Cooper (1609–1672), English miniature painter |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894), American authoress |
| Thomas Cooper (c. 1517–1594), English Bishop and writer |
| Thomas Cooper (1759–1839), American educationalist and political philosopher |
| Thomas Cooper (1805–1892), English Chartist and writer |
| Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902), English painter |
| Dirk Volkertszoon Coornhert (1522–1590), Dutch politician and theologian |
| Sir Eyre Coote (1726–1783), British soldier |
| Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), American palæontologist |
| Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), English classical scholar |
| Henry Copeland (Eighteenth Century), English cabinet-maker and furniture designer |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Polish astronomer |
| Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547), English printer and author |
| Edward Copleston (1776–1849), English Bishop |
| John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), English historical painter |
| François Coppée (1842–1908), French poet and novelist |
| Henry Coppée (1821–1895), American educationalist and author |
| Constant Coquelin (1841–1909), French actor |
| Athanase Coquerel (1820–1875), French Protestant divine |
| Athanase Coquerel (1795–1868), French Protestant divine |
| Gonzalez Coques (1614–1684), Flemish painter |
| Thomas Coram (1668?–1751), English philanthropist |
| Richard Corbet (1582–1635), English Bishop and poet |
| Austin Corbin (1827–1896), American capitalist and financier |
| Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (d. 67 A.D.), Roman general |
| William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), American banker |
| Charlotte Corday (1768–1793), French revolutionary heroine |
| Frederick Corder (1852–1932), British musical composer |
| Corderius (1479–1564), French schoolmaster |
| Victor Cordonnier (1858–1936), French general |
| Aulus Cremutius Cordus (d. 25 A.D.), Roman historian |
| Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713), Italian violin-player and composer |
| Marie Corelli (1855–1924), English novelist |
| Belisario Corenzio (c. 1558–1643), Italian painter |
| Corinna (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek poetess |
| Coriolanus (Fifth Century B.C.?), Roman legendary hero |
| Flavius Cresconius Corippus (Sixth Century), Roman epic poet |
| Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork (1566–1643), Irish statesman |
| Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery (1746–1840), literary hostess |
| George Henry Corliss (1817–1888), inventor of the Corliss engine |
| Louis-Marie de Lahaye, Vicomte de Cormenin (1788–1868), French jurist and political pamphleteer |
| Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), French painter |
| Louis de Cormontaingne (c. 1696–1752), French military engineer |
| Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus |
| Luigi Cornaro (1467?–1566), Venetian nobleman |
| Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), French dramatist and poet |
| Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), French dramatist |
| Cornelia (Second Century B.C.), mother of the Gracchi |
| Cornelius (d. 253), Pope |
| Peter Cornelius (1824–1874), German musician and poet |
| Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867), German painter |
| Alonzo Barton Cornell (1832–1904), American politician |
| Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American philanthropist |
| Cornificius (First Century B.C.?), author of a work on rhetorical figures |
| Erastus Corning (1794–1872), American capitalist |
| Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902), French physicist |
| Lucius Annaeus Cornutus (First Century A.D.), Stoic philosopher |
| Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), British commander |
| Sir William Cornwallis (1744–1819), British admiral |
| Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510–1554), Spanish explorer |
| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), French landscape painter |
| José Francisco Correa da Serra (1750–1823), Portuguese politician and man of science |
| Correggio (1489?–1534), celebrated Italian painter |
| Cesare Correnti (1815–1888), Italian revolutionist and politician |
| Michael Augustine Corrigan (1839–1902), American Archbishop |
| Corsini, name of a Florentine princely family |
| Hiram Corson (1828–1911), American scholar |
| Wilhelm Paul Corssen (1820–1875), German philologist |
| Cornelis Cort (1533?–1578), Dutch engraver |
| Jerónimo Corte-Real (d. 1588), Portuguese epic poet |
| Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), Spanish soldier |
| Lodovico Corti (1823–1888), Italian diplomatist |
| János Corvin (1473–1504), Hungarian noble |
| Marcus Valerius Corvus (c. 370–270 B.C.), Roman general |
| Thomas Corwin (1794–1865), American statesman and orator |
| William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), English schoolmaster and author |
| Thomas Coryate (c. 1577–1617), English traveller and writer |
| Enrico Cosenz (1820–1898), Italian soldier |
| John Cosin (1594–1672), English divine |
| Cosmas Indicopleustes (Sixth Century), merchant and traveller |
| Cosmas of Prague (1045?–1125), Dean of the cathedral and the earliest Bohemian historian |
| Cosmati, name of a Roman family |
| Luigi Cossa (1831–1896), Italian economist |
| Pietro Cossa (1830–1880), Italian dramatist |
| Isaäc da Costa (1798–1860), Dutch poet and theologian |
| Lorenzo Costa (1460–1535), Italian painter |
| Michael Costa (1808–1884), British musical conductor and composer |
| Nino Costa (1826–1903), Italian painter |
| Anthopoulos Costaki (1835–1902), Turkish pasha |
| Dudley Costello (1803–1865), English journalist and novelist |
| Charles de Coster (1827–1879), Belgian writer |
| Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370–1439), Dutch printer |
| Richard Cosway (1740–1821), English miniature painter |
| Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque (d. c. 1498), Spanish poet |
| Roger Cotes (1682–1716), English mathematician and philosopher |
| Randle Cotgrave (d. 1634?), English lexicographer |
| John Sell Cotman (1782–1842), English landscape-painter and etcher |
| Cotta, name of a family of German publishers |
| Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), German geologist |
| Gaius Aurelius Cotta (c. 124–73 B.C.), Roman statesman and orator |
| Charles Christopher Pepys, Earl of Cottenham (1781–1851), Lord Chancellor of England |
| Charles Cottet (1863–1925), French painter |
| Madame Sophie Cottin (1770–1807), French novelist |
| Francis, Baron Cottington (1578?–1652), English Lord Treasurer and ambassador |
| Cotton, name of a well-known family of Anglo-Indian administrators |
| Charles Cotton (1630–1687), English poet |
| George Edward Lynch Cotton (1813–1866), English educationist and divine |
| John Cotton (1585–1652), English and American Puritan divine |
| Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571–1631), English antiquary |
| Cotys, name common to several kings of Thrace |
| Darius Nash Couch (1822–1897), American soldier |
| Le Châtelain de Coucy (Twelfth Century), French trouvère |
| Elliott Coues (1842–1899), American naturalist |
| Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736–1806), French natural philosopher |
| Louis Couperus (1863–1923), Dutch writer |
| Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), French painter |
| Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil (1813–1892), French economist |
| Paul-Louis Courier (1772–1825), French Hellenist and political writer |
| Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), French economist and mathematician |
| Antoine Court (1696–1760), French Protestant divine |
| Antoine Court de Gébelin (1725–1784), French scholar |
| Courtenay, name of a famous English family |
| Richard Courtenay (d. 1415), English prelate |
| William Courtenay (c. 1342–1396), English prelate |
| William John Courthope (1842–1917), English writer and historian of poetry |
| Leonard Henry, Baron Courtney (1832–1918), English politician and man of letters |
| Jacques (1621–1676) and Guillaume (1628–1679) Courtois, French painters |
| Jean-Joseph-Antoine de Courvoisier (1775–1835), French magistrate and politician |
| Jean Cousin (c. 1522–c. 1593), French painter |
| Victor Cousin (1792–1867), French philosopher |
| Samuel Cousins (1801–1887), English mezzotint engraver |
| Coustou, name of a famous family of French sculptors |
| Georges Auguste Couthon (1755–1794), French revolutionist |
| Thomas Coutts (1735–1822), English banker |
| Thomas Couture (1815–1879), French painter |
| Sir John Coventry (d. 1682), English politician |
| Thomas, Baron Coventry (1578–1640), Lord Keeper of England |
| Sir William Coventry (c. 1628–1686), English statesman |
| Myles Coverdale (c. 1488–1569), English translator of the Bible |
| Pedro de Covilham (fl. 1487–1525), Portuguese explorer and diplomatist |
| Edward Byles Cowell (1826–1903), Sanscrit scholar |
| John Cowell (1554–1611), English jurist |
| Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852–1935), English musical composer |
| Joseph Cowen (1831–1900), English politician and journalist |
| Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), English poet |
| Hannah Cowley (1743–1809), English dramatist and poet |
| Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, Earl Cowley (1804–1884), British diplomatist |
| William, Earl Cowper (c. 1665–1723), Lord Chancellor of England |
| William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet |
| David Cox (1783–1859), English painter |
| George William Cox (1827–1902), English divine and scholar |
| Jacob Dolson Cox (1828–1900), American general, political leader and educationalist |
| James Middleton Cox (1870–1957), American politician |
| Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), American painter |
| Richard Cox (1500?–1581), Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely |
| Samuel Cox (1826–1893), English nonconformist divine |
| Samuel Hanson Cox (1793–1880), American Presbyterian divine |
| Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824–1889), American statesman |
| Michael Coxcie (1499–1592), Flemish painter |
| Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881), English librarian and scholar |
| John Redman Coxe (1773–1864), American physician |
| Tench Coxe (1755–1824), American politician and political economist |
| William Coxe (1747–1828), English historian |
| Jacob Sechler Coxey (1854–1951), American agitator |
| Henry Tracey Coxwell (1819–1900), English aeronaut |
| Coypel, name of a French family of painters |
| Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), French sculptor |
| Herbert Hardy, Baron Cozens-Hardy (1838–1920), English lawyer and Master of the Rolls |
| George Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet |
| Montague Hughes Crackanthorpe (1832–1913), English lawyer |
| Christopher Cradock (1862–1914), British admiral |
| James Craggs (1657–1721), English politician |
| John Craig (1512?–1600), Scottish reformer |
| Sir Thomas Craig (1538–1608), Scottish jurist and poet |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887), English novelist |
| George Lillie Craik (1798–1866), English man of letters |
| Georgiana Marion Craik (1831–1895), English novelist |
| Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942), American architect |
| Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858), English musician |
| John Antony Cramer (1793–1848), English classical scholar and geographer |
| Karl von Crämer (1818–1902), Bavarian politician |
| Charles Henry Cramp (1828–1913), American shipbuilder |
| Concemore Thomas Cramp (1876–1933), British Labour politician |
| Lucas Cranach (1472–1553), German painter |
| Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British statesman |
| Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892), American artist and poet |
| Prudence Crandall (1803–1890), American school-teacher |
| Stephen Crane (1871–1900), American writer |
| Thomas Frederick Crane (1844–1927), American scholar and folklorist |
| Walter Crane (1845–1915), English artist |
| William Henry Crane (1845–1928), American actor |
| Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Crantor (c. Fourth Century B.C.), Greek philosopher of the Old Academy |
| Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth (1790–1868), Lord Chancellor of England |
| Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649), English poet |
| Crassus, a family name in the Roman gens Licinia |
| Crates (fl. c. 470 B.C.), Athenian actor and author of comedies |
| Crates of Mallus (Second Century B.C.), Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher |
| Crates of Thebes (c. Fourth Century B.C.), Cynic philosopher |
| Cratinus (519–422 B.C.), Athenian comic poet |
| Cratippus (fl. c. 375 B.C.), Greek historian |
| Cratippus of Mitylene (First Century B.C.), Peripatetic philosopher |
| Gustave Crauck (1827–1905), French sculptor |
| Quintin Craufurd (1743–1819), British author |
| Robert Craufurd (1764–1812), British major-general |
| Madame Augustus Craven (Pauline de la Ferronays) (1808–1891), French author |
| William, Earl of Craven (1608–1697), English noble |
| Earls of Crawford |
| Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909), American author |
| Thomas Crawford (1813/4–1857), American sculptor |
| William Harris Crawford (1772–1834), American statesman |
| John Crawfurd (1783–1868), Scottish orientalist |
| Gaspar de Crayer (1584–1669), Flemish painter |
| Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), English historian |
| Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762), French tragic poet |
| Lorenzo di Credi (1459?–1537?), Italian artist |
| Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner (1809–1876), German geologist |
| Thomas Creech (1659–1700), English classical scholar |
| Thomas Creevey (1768–1838), English politician |
| Mandell Creighton (1843–1901), English historian and Bishop of London |
| Nicholas Crell (c. 1551–1601), Chancellor of the elector of Saxony |
| Jacob Jan Cremer (1827–1880), Dutch novelist |
| Adolphe Isaac Moïse Crémieux (1796–1880), French statesman |
| Luigi Cremona (1830–1903), Italian mathematician |
| Creophylus, one of the earliest Greek epic poets |
| Créquy, French family |
| Renée Caroline de Froulay, Marquise de Créquy (1714–1803), French woman of letters |
| Michael Cresap (1742–1775), Indian trader |
| Ḥasdai Crescas (1340–c. 1410), Spanish philosopher |
| Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (1663–1728), Italian critic and poet |
| Cresilas (Fifth Century B.C.), Cretan sculptor of Cydonia |
| Daniele Crespi (c. 1590–1630), Italian historical painter |
| Giovanni Battista Crespi (1576?–1633?), Italian painter, sculptor and architect |
| Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747), Italian painter |
| Charles Cressent (1685–1768), French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur |
| Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1794–1863), English judge |
| Hugh Paulinus de Cressy (c. 1605–1674), English Benedictine monk |
| Thomas Creswick (1811–1869), English landscape-painter |
| Jacques Crétineau-Joly (1803–1875), French historian |
| Gustav Philip Creutz (1731–1785), Swedish poet |
| Georg Friedrich Creuzer (1771–1858), German philologist and archæologist |
| Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier (1693–1765), French author |
| Nathaniel, Baron Crew (1633–1721), Bishop of Durham |
| Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe (1858–1945), English statesman and writer |
| James Crichton (1560–1582), English scholar |
| James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938), English physician |
| George Washington Crile (1864–1943), American surgeon |
| Crinagoras of Mytilene (First Century B.C.–First Century A.D.), Greek epigrammatist |
| Henri Crisafulli (1827–1900), French dramatist |
| Charles Frederick Crisp (1845–1896), American statesman |
| Francesco Crispi (1818–1901), Italian statesman |
| Saints Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of shoemakers |
| Critias (c. 460–c. 403 B.C.), Athenian orator and poet, and one of the Thirty Tyrants |
| Critius and Nesiotes (fl. 480–460 B.C.), Greek sculptors |
| Critolaus (fl. Second Century B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| John Jordan Crittenden (1787–1863), American statesman |
| Carlo Crivelli (fl. Fifteenth Century), Venetian painter |
| Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), Italian philosopher and statesman |
| Davy Crockett (1786–1836), American frontiersman |
| Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914), Scottish novelist |
| William Crockford (1775–1844), proprietor of Crockford’s Club |
| Croesus (fl. 560–546 B.C.), last King of Lydia |
| William Augustus Croffut (1835–1915), American editor and author |
| Sir Herbert Croft (1751–1816), English author |
| Sir James Croft (c. 1518–1590), Lord Deputy of Ireland |
| William Croft (1678–1727), English composer |
| John Wilson Croker (1780–1857), British statesman and author |
| Richard Croker (1843–1922), American politician |
| Thomas Crofton Croker (1798–1854), Irish antiquary and humorist |
| James Croll (1821–1890), Scottish man of science |
| David Goodman Croly (1829–1889), American journalist |
| George Croly (1780–1860), British divine and author |
| Jane Cunningham Croly (Jennie June) (1829–1901), American author |
| George Mackenzie, Earl of Cromarty (1630–1714), Scottish statesman |
| John Crome (1768–1821), English landscape painter |
| Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer (1841–1917), British statesman and diplomatist |
| Samuel Crompton (1753–1827), English inventor
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