Charles Hinton Russell (December 27, 1903 – September 13, 1989) was an American politician who served as the 20th Governor of Nevada.

He taught school in Ruby Valley for one term and then went to Ruth to work for the copper company.

After that, he was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress, succeeding Democrat Berkeley L. Bunker, who ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress, narrowly losing to Reno City Councilman Walter S. Baring.

Russell died on September 13, 1989, in Carson City, Nevada, at the age of 85.