Top Celebrity Names Starting With Claude

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   Claude Chabrol

   1930 - 2010 Male
   

   Film Director

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   Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).… read more

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   Claude Makélélé

   Age 39 Male
   

   Former Footballer

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   Claude Makélelé Sinda is a retired football player and coach who is currently assistant coach of Carlo Ancelotti in Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1. Prior to joining Paris Saint-Germain, Makélélé played for Nantes, Olympique de Marseille, Celta Vigo, Real Madrid and Chelsea. In homage to Makélélé, many fans and pundits alike have dubbed the defensive midfield position as the "Makélélé Role."… read more

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   Claude Lelouch

   Age 74 Male
   

   Film Director

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   Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

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   Claude Berri

   1934 - 2009 Male
   

   Film Producer

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   Claude Berri, born Claude Berel Langmann, was a French actor, writer, producer, director and distributor.

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   Claude Lévi-Strauss

   1908 - 2009 Male
   

   Anthropologist, Ethnologist

   
   

   Claude Lévi-Strauss (was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology". He argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.… read more

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   Claude François

   1939 - 1978 Male
   

   Singer, Musician, Songwriter

   
   

   Claude François was a French pop singer, songwriter and dancer. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way."

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   Claude Debussy

   1862 - 1918 Male
   

   Composer, Musician

   
   

   Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. In France, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. A crucial figure in the transition to the modern era in Western music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.… read more

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   Claude Kirkpatrick

   1917 - 1997 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Claude Kirkpatrick was a diversified businessman who served two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives (1952—1960), worked to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir through his directorship of the state Department of Public Works (1960—1964), and was the administrator and then president of Baton Rouge General Medical Center (1967—1982). Kirkpatrick ran unsuccessfully for governor in the 1963 Democratic primary.… read more

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   Claude Jade

   1948 - 2006 Female
   

   Actress

   
   

   Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade, was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside of France included the Soviet Union, the United States, Italy and Japan.… read more

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    Claude E. Welch

    1906 - 1996 Male
    

    Surgeon, General

    
    

    Claude E. Welch was an internationally recognized surgeon whose career spanned forty years. For most of those forty years, Welch worked at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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    Claude B. Duval

    1914 - 1986 Male
    

    United States Marine

    
    

    Claude Berwick Duval, I, was a Houma, Louisiana, attorney and a conservative Democratic state senator from Terrebonne and St. Mary parishes, having served from 1968 to 1980. He is best known for his profound oratory, his accommodation of Senate colleagues, his unsuccessful 1963-1964 campaign for lieutenant governor, and his opposition to the national holiday honoring civil rights advocate Martin Luther King, Jr.… read more

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    Claude Allen

    Age 51 Male
    

    Politician, Assistant, President of the United States

    
    

    Claude Alexander Allen was the Assistant to the President of the United States for Domestic Policy in George W. Bush's White House and a withdrawn Bush judicial nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The African-American Republican was appointed to his White House position in January 2005. Allen resigned February 9, 2006, stating he wanted to spend more time with his family.… read more

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    Claude Gauthier

    Age 73 Male
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Actor

    
    

    Claude Gauthier is a Quebec singer-songwriter and actor.

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    Claude Nicolas Ledoux

    1736 - 1806 Male
    

    Neoclassical Architect, Urbanist, and Architectural Theorist

    
    

    Claude Ledoux redirects here. For the Belgian composer, see Claude Ledoux. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (March 21, 1736 – November 18, 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. He used his knowledge of architectural theory to design not only in domestic architecture but town planning; as a consequence of his visionary plan for the Ideal City of Chaux, he became known as a utopian.… read more

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    Claude Shannon

    1916 - 2001 Male
    

    Mathematician, Engineer, Cryptanalyst

    
    

    Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948.… read more

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    Claude Auchinleck

    1884 - 1981 Male
    

    Field Marshal, Soldier, Military Person

    
    

    Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE, nicknamed "The Auk", was a British army commander during World War II. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he developed a love of the country and a lasting affinity for the soldiers he commanded.… read more

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    Claude AnShin Thomas

    Age 65 Male
    

    Monk, Veteran, Counsel

    
    

    Claude Anshin Thomas is an American Zen Buddhist monk and Vietnam War veteran. He is a vocal advocate of nonviolence and an international speaker, teacher and writer. Thomas was brought to Buddhism by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, and was ordained in 1995 by Tetsugen Bernard Glassman of the Zen Peacemaker Order. Thomas brings Buddhist meditation practice and dharma teachings directly to the public through social projects, talks, and retreats.… read more

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    Claude Monet

    1840 - 1926 Male
    

    Painter

    
    

    Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.… read more

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    Claude Vorilhon

    Age 65 Male
    

    Author of Raëlism and Founder and Current Leader of the Raëlian Movement.

    
    

    Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon is the founder and current leader of the UFO religion known as Raëlism. Vorilhon began singing at a young age and soon became a sports-car journalist and test driver for his own car-racing magazine, Auto Pop. Following what he said was an extraterrestrial encounter in December 1973, he formed the Raëlian Movement and changed his name to Raël.… read more

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    Claude Martin

    1735 - 1800 Male
    

    Major, Soldier, General

    
    

    Major General Claude Martin was an officer in the French, and later the British, army in India. He rose to the position of Major General in the British East India Company. Martin was born in Lyon, France, into a humble background, and was a self-made man who has left a substantial lasting legacy in the form of his writings, buildings and the educational institutions he founded posthumously.… read more

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    Claude King

    Age 89 Male
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Musician

    
    

    Claude King is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for his million selling 1962 hit, "Wolverton Mountain".

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    Claude Allègre

    Age 75 Male
    

    Politician, Scientist

    
    

    Claude Allègre (born 31 March 1937, Paris) is a French politician and scientist.

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    Claude Akins

    1926 - 1994 Male
    

    Actor, Voice

    
    

    Claude Marion Akins was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen and television. Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series B. J. and the Bear, and later The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off series, with Ben Cooper appearing as Waverly.… read more

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    Claude Voilier

    Female
    

    Teacher, Writer

    
    

    Claude Voilier was a French teacher, journalist, translator, and a prolific author, having written over 600 short stories for various French magazines, and about 400 stories for children. In the English-speaking world, she is best known for her continuation of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five series of children's adventure novels. Claude Voilier was born Andrée Labedan around 1930.… read more

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    Claude Jodoin

    1913 - 1975 Male
    

    Politician