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