Charles Kemp (2 June 1813 – 25 August 1864) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born in London to carpenter Simon Kemp and Mary Ann Cox.
He and his family migrated to Port Stephens; he moved to Sydney in 1831 and, after a period in a carpenters' shop, was the colony's first parliamentary reporter.
He stood unsuccessfully for the New South Wales Legislative Council for the North Eastern Boroughs (Newcastle and Raymond Terrace) at the 1851 election,[2] for Maneroo in April 1854,[3] and for City of Sydney in May 1854.
[1] In April 1861 he was again unsuccessful in a by-election for Parramatta,[10] before being appointed to the Legislative Council in September 1861.