Sir Charles Wright Macara, 1st Baronet (1845–1929) was a British cotton spinner and textile industrialist.

[3] He was born in the manse at Strathmiglo on 11 January 1845, the son of Rev William Macara (1812-1889), a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and his wife, Charlotte Grace Cowpar of Kirriemuir.

Marion Macara assisted him and founded the Ladies Lifeboat Guild.

Their elder son William Cowper Macara (1875–1931) inherited the title.

Their younger son Charles Douglas Macara (1885–1891) did not survive until adulthood.