Hector Willoughby Charlesworth (28 September 1872 – 30 December 1945) was a Canadian writer, editor, and critic.

Hector Charlesworth was born in Hamilton on 28 September 1872.

[1] From 1904 to 1910 he was an editor and critic at the Toronto Mail and Empire.

From 1932 to 1936 he was chair of the newly formed Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (precursor to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), after which he returned to writing reviews and criticism for Saturday Night and newspapers.

[2] In his art criticism he was noted for his antagonism to the Group of Seven, and "for them he became the embodiment of reactionary opposition to new ways of painting the Canadian landscape.