Charles Garnier was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and missionary who dedicated his life to serving indigenous communities in New France. Born in Paris in 1606 to a royal secretary, he entered the Jesuit seminary in 1624 and was ordained in 1635. After arriving in North America in 1636, he worked extensively among the Wendat and Nipissing peoples. He is remembered as one of the seven Canadian Martyrs, having been killed by the Haudenosaunee in a Petun village in December 1649.