[4] Charlie the Tuna was based on Tom Rogers' friend Henry Nemo.

[5] The advertisements depicted Charlie (voiced by actor Herschel Bernardi) as a hipster, originally a lower class New York accented beatnik wearing a beret and thick glasses who believes that his hip, cultured "good taste" make him a perfect catch for StarKist, but he is always rejected.

[9] Charlie made a comeback in 1999, when StarKist revived him to introduce a new line of tuna products marketed as healthy.

[1] Los Angeles radio personality and voiceover artist Charlie Tuna (real name: Art Ferguson) chose his on-air name early in his career upon the departure of another Oklahoma City disc jockey.

[citation needed] American football head coach Bill Parcells earned the nickname "The Big Tuna" when he responded to an obviously false statement from a player with the incredulous "Who do you think I am?

[citation needed] During the production of the 2017 film The Shape of Water, director Guillermo del Toro remarked of the creature in the film: "[The] character is called 'Charlie' on the call-sheet by reference to the StarKist mascot Charlie the Tuna.