Claude (first name)
Claude (English also written Cloud ) a male and female French given name, a variant of the Latin Claudius or Claudia .
Name bearer
Male
- Claude Akins (1926–1994), American actor
- Oyon Marius Claude Amba (* 1987), Cameroonian chess player
- Claude Aubert (* 1959), Swiss pop musician, artist name also Claude Quick, see Claude (musician)
- Claude Brasseur (born 1936), French actor
- Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), French director
- Claude Crétier (* 1977), French ski racer
- Claude Dauphin (1903–1978), French actor
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer
- Claude François (1939–1978), French singer
- Claude Humphrey (born 1944), American football player
- Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018), French film director
- Claude Lelouch (* 1937), French film director
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French ethnologist
- Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter
- Claude Pinoteau (1925–2012), French director
- Claude Rains (1889–1967), British-American actor
- Claude Rich (1929–2017), French actor and author
- Claude-Oliver Rudolph (* 1956), German actor
- Claude Sautet (1924-2000), French director
- Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), French painter
- Claude Williamson (1926–2016), American jazz pianist
Female
- Claude de France (1499–1524), Queen of France
- Claudia von Valois , Claude de Valois (1547–1575), daughter of Heinrich II. And Catherine von Medici
- Claudia Cardinale (* 1938), Italian actress, b. as Claude Cardinale
- Claude Farell (1918–2008), Austro-French actress
- Claude Gensac (1927-2016), French actress
- Claude Jade (1948–2006), French actress
- Claude Nollier (1919–2009), French actress
- Claude Perron (born 1966), French actress
- Claude Pompidou (1912–2007), wife of President Georges Pompidou
- Claude Winter (1931–2011), French actress