Charles Cary Rumsey (August 29, 1879 – September 21, 1922) was an American sculptor and an eight-goal polo player.

[1] As a child, Charles learned to play polo at a young age from his uncle and friend, Devereux Milburn.

Among Rumsey's other works, he did a statue of Francisco Pizarro erected in Trujillo, Spain, the Brownsville War Memorial in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a copy of the "Three Graces Fountain" from Arden House installed in Mirror Lake at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo (where Rumsey is buried), and the controversial figure of a nude woman called "The Pagan.

"[5] Perhaps his most celebrated work is the 1916 frieze on Carrère and Hastings' Manhattan Bridge in New York City, titled "Buffalo Hunt."

[8] Together they had three children: On September 21, 1922, Charles Rumsey was a passenger in an automobile that crashed into a stone bridge abutment on the Jericho Turnpike near Floral Park on Long Island.

In 1976, Charles, a graduate of Phillips Exeter, Harvard College and Harvard Law School, married Martha Zec, daughter of Dr. Branko Zec of Beverly Hills, California, with Pony Duke (the nephew of Doris Duke) as best man.