Lieutenant General Charles R. Hamm (born December 23, 1933)[1] is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) lieutenant general who served as the eleventh Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

Hamm was born on December 23, 1933, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Kemper Military School, Boonville, Missouri, in 1951.

In February 1958 he transferred to Nellis Air Force Base, for gunnery training in F-100 Super Sabre fighter aircraft.

He later served with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell as a forward air controller.

He served several tours of duty during the Vietnam War, and as a flight commander in the 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Bien Hoa Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, he flew 103 combat missions.