Charles Jean Baptiste Claude Lorin was a French glass painter and manufacturer.

He was born on October 16, 1866, in Chartres, the capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in France, and died in the same city on April 23, 1940.

Charles Lorin took part in decorating war memorials, such as the stained glass windows of the Brezolles and Le Puiset churches.

In 1900, Charles had a second son, François Lorin (1900 – 1972), who continued his father's work after World War II.

[17] Charles Lorin published several articles in 1906 with respect to the 50th anniversary of the Archaeological Society of Eure-et-Loir (in French):