Charles Boone (born Cleveland, on June 21, 1939) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living in San Francisco.

Charles Boone studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the University of Southern California, and San Francisco State College.

Performers have included Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Michael Tilson Thomas, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan Williams, Bertram Turetzky, and Karl Kohn.

An archive of the composer's scores, manuscripts, recordings, letters, and other documents is being gathered at the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.

They include Jon Beacham, Dicky Bahto, Claire Jackel, Prumsodun Ok, Rebecca Milsop, Sanghee Park, Jhinryung Oh, Taeko Horigome, Michael Dodge, Masako Tanaka, Ben Wood, Kai-Ting Chuang, Daniel Shin, Peter Varga, and many others.