Claude (given name)

Claude

Claude Monet, a founder of French Impressionist painting
Pronunciation	/klod/
Gender	usually male
Origin
Word/name	French, via Latin
Meaning	Latin: "limping"
Region of origin	France
Other names
Related names	Claudius, Claudia, Claudie, Marie-Claude, Claudio, Claudette

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Claude is a French given name for males originating from the Latin name Claudius, itself deriving from 'claudicatio' meaning "limping" or "stuttering".^[1] It can also be an uncommon given name for females or a family name.

Men[]

• Claude, Duke of Aumale (1526–1573)
• Claude, Duke of Guise (1496–1550)
• Claude de la Colombière (1641–1682), Christian saint
• Claude of Besançon (c. 607–696 or 699), Christian saint, priest, monk, abbot and bishop
• "Claude", traditional name in English for Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher
• Claude Akins (1926–1994), American actor
• Claude Barrès (1925–1959), French officer
• Claude Beausoleil (1948–2020), Canadian poet and writer
• Claude Bouton, Lord of Corbaron
• Claude Choules (1901–2011), British WWI veteran and last combat veteran from any nation
• Claude Corea (1894-1962), Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations from 1958-1961
• Claude Crowl (1892–1915), a former Australian rules footballer with St Kilda
• Claude Dallas (born 1950), self-styled "Mountain Man" and convicted murderer of two U.S. game wardens
• Claude Dauphin (1951–2015), French commodities trader
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer
• Claude Demetrius (1916–1988), African-American songwriter
• Claude Duval, (1643–1670), French-born gentleman highwayman in post-Restoration Britain
• Claude François (1939–1978), French musician
• Claude Galopin, French automotive engineer
• Claude Gillingwater (1870–1939), American actor
• Claude Giroux (born 1988), French-Canadian professional ice hockey player and captain of the Philadelphia Flyers
• Claude Hipps (1927–2017), American football player
• Claude Hulbert (1900–1964), British comic actor
• Claude Julien (born 1960), Canadian ice hockey coach in the National Hockey League
• Claude Kelly, American singer and song writer
• Claude A. Larkin (1891–1969), American Marine general
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist
• Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist
• Claude Lemieux (born 1965), retired ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
• Claude Makélélé (born 1973), French football manager and former player
• Claude McKay (1889-1948), Jamaican writer and poet
• Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter
• Claude F. Morris (1869–1957), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
• Claude Mutafian (1942), French writer, historian and mathematician
• Claude Netter (1924–2007), French Olympic champion foil fencer
• Claude Nicollier (born 1944), first Swiss astronaut
• Claude Patrick (born 1980), Canadian mixed martial arts fighter
• Claude Piron (1931–2008), linguist and psychologist
• Claude Rains (1889–1967), British-born American actor
• Claude Ramsey (1943–2018), American farmer and politician
• Claude Rapin (born 19??), archaeologist specialising in Central Asian studies
• Claude Rouer (born 1929), French road cyclist
• Claude Shannon (1916–2001), American information theorist, mathematician, and electrical engineer
• Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), French painter
• Claude Weaver (1867–1954), American politician
• Claude Weaver III (1923–1944), American-Canadian World War II flying ace

Women[]

• Claude de Bectoz (1490–1547), writer, intellectual, abbess and correspondent of Francis I of France
• Claude of France (1499–1524), queen consort of King Francis I of France and Duchess of Brittany
• Claude of France (1547–1575), second daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici
• Claude B. Levenson (1938–2010), French journalist and writer
• Claude de Vin des Œillets (1637–1687), a mistress of King Louis XIV of France
• Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer
• Claude Chirac (born 1962), daughter of Jacques Chirac
• Claude Gensac (1927–2016), French actress
• Claude Jade (1948–2006), French actress
• Claude or Claudia Moatti (born 1954), French historian specialising in Roman Studies
• Claude Mérelle (1888–1976), French actress
• Claude Nollier (1919–2009), French actress
• Claude Pompidou (1912–2007), widow of President Georges Pompidou

Fictional characters[]

• Claude, from the anime series Beyblade G-Revolution
• Claude, from the Bleach franchise
• Claude, eponymous dog from the Claude series of books by Alex T. Smith
• Claude, protagonist of the video game Grand Theft Auto III
• Claude, young numbat in the 2007 Australian film Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale
• Claude, from the television series Heroes
• Claude, uncle of Hugo Cabret in the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Claude, French character in the children's television series The Raggy Dolls
• Claude, from the children's animated series Timothy Goes to School
• Claude of Valois, from the television series Reign
• Claude von Riegan, one of the three main lords from the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Claude Hooper Bukowski, protagonist of the musical Hair
• Claude Cat, from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series from Warner Bros.
• Claude Faustus, demonic butler from the Black Butler franchise
• Claude Frollo, villain of the Victor Hugo novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• Claude Speed, protagonist of the video game Grand Theft Auto 2
• Claude Sterling, villain from the manga adaptation of the "Vampire Kisses" book series
• Cloud Strife or Claude Strauss, protagonist of Final Fantasy VII
• Claude Wheeler, main character of Willa Cather's One of Ours

See also[]

• Claude (disambiguation)

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