Charles Ranlett Flint (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1934) was the founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became IBM.

[5] His father, Benjamin Chapman, had changed the family name to Flint after being adopted by an uncle on his mother's side.

In 1871, he entered the shipping business as a partner in Gilchrest, Flint & Co., which became W. R. Grace and Company following a merger.

[16] He died on February 26, 1934, in Washington, D.C.[17] Charles Flint was an avid sportsman and loved swimming, hunting, fishing, sailing, and aviation.

His Time magazine obituary stated he negotiated the Wright brothers' first sales of airplanes overseas.