Charles Frederick Courtney (23 November 1856 – 27 September 1941) was an English-Australian metallurgist, manager of the Sulphide Corporation, a mining and chemical manufacturing company in Australia.

[4] He was brought out from England to replace Randolph Adams as manager of Ashcroft's process at the Central Mine, Broken Hill, only recently taken over by the Sulphide Corporation.

The new facility at Cockle Creek, near Newcastle, had just been brought into operation under Ashcroft's direction.

Courtney became general manager for Australia of the Sulphide Corporation Ltd. in 1903, resident in Melbourne,[7] with a home "Granlahan" on Toorak Road, South Yarra; James Hebbard was his successor.

In September 1922 Courtney left Melbourne to take up the position of the corporation's managing director in England.