Charles Jac Young (né Charles Jacob Jung), painter and printmaker, was born in Rodenbach, Germany on 21 December 1880. The following year his family immigrated to the United States and settled in New Jersey. From 1907 to 1909, Young studied at the New York Academy of Design under Robert Henri, Charles Yardley Turner, and Edgar Melville Ward. Around 1919 he changed his professional name to C. Jac Young.

C. Jac Young was primarily known for his landscapes in etching, oil, and watercolor. He was a member of the Society of American Etchers, the Salmagundi Club, the Society of Independent Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, the Newark Art Club, the Philadelphia Print Club, the Contemporary Club, and the Yonkers Art Association.

The work of C. Jac Young is represented in the collections of the Carlos Museum, Emory University and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia; the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence; the Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; the Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut.

C. Jac Young died in Weehawken, New Jersey on 4 March 1940.