Charles Alden Black (March 6, 1919 – August 4, 2005) was an American businessman known for his work in aquaculture and oceanography as well as his marriage to Shirley Temple.

His father, James, was president and chairman of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company[1] He attended Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.

Black attended Harvard Business School for a year prior to joining the navy in 1941.

Then in the late 1950s, he lived in Hawaii, working as an executive for Castle & Cooke and Dole Pineapple companies.

[1] Black was an executive at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) from 1952 to 1957 and with Ampex Corp from 1957 to 1965.