Charles Adolph Schieren (February 28, 1842 – March 10, 1915) was a German-American belt manufacturer, banker, and politician who served as the penultimate Mayor of Brooklyn.

His father was an active supporter of the German Revolution of 1848, and was a close compatriot with Carl Schurz, Friedrich Hecker, and Hugo Wesendonck.

After the Revolution failed, the father was forced to immigrate to America in 1849, settling in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1864, he began working in a leather belting house under Philip F. Pasquay in New York City.

He also worked as a trustee of the Brooklyn Trust Company, a director of the Germania Life Insurance Company and the Nassau National Bank, president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and trustee, First Vice-president, and President of the Germania Savings Bank.