André Marie Bernard Charlin (20 March 1903 – 28 November 1983) was a French audio engineer and entrepreneur.

His father died that year and his uncle Edmond Ragonot, an electrical engineer, took an interest in the boy and helped him build his first radio receiver.

[1] Towards the end of World War I (1914–18) he built an amplifier, and in 1922 he filed his first patent for an electro-dynamic speaker diaphragm embedded in a screen.

The first "talkies" appeared in 1931, and Charlin began working on ways to improve sound quality through better recording technology.

[1] Early in the 1950s Radio-Cinema, a subsidiary of the Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil, acquired Charlin' company.

[1] In 1949 Charlin produced the first European microgroove vinyl record, L'Apothéose de Lully by François Couperin, conducted by Roger Désormière.

[5] Charlin briefly collaborated with Michel Garcin in developing Erato Records, then after breaking with his partner in 1962 created his Centre d'Enregistrement des Champs Elysees (CECE) label with Carl de Nys.