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Clifford is both a given name and a surname of Old English origin that applies to a number of individuals or places. It simply means "ford by a cliff". Clifford was a common surname mainly in the 18th century but lost its prominence over the years. Today the name Clifford is common in Europe and USA.

Given name

Clifford Andrews
Clifford Andrews
Clifford Jack Andrews was an English cricketer. Andrews was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Swindon, Wiltshire.He made his first-class debut for Hampshire against Cambridge University...

(1912-1973), English athlete in cricket
Clifford Antone
Clifford Antone
Clifford Antone was the founder of a well-known Austin blues club, record label, and a mentor to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan and numerous other musicians....

(1949-2006), US musical producer and club owner
Clifford Warren Ashley (1881-1947), US artist, author
Clifford Berry
Clifford Berry
Clifford Edward Berry was an American inventor.Clifford Berry was born in Gladbrook, Iowa to Fred Gordon Berry and Grace Strohm...

(1918-1963), US inventor
Clifford Bax
Clifford Bax
Clifford Bax was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. He also was a translator, for example of Goldoni...

(1886-1962), English author and playwright
Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA is an English historian and orientalist, specializing in Arabic studies. He received his B.A. degree from Oxford University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Edinburgh University. He held permanent posts at St. Andrews University, Manchester University, and the Center...

(born 1928), English professor, historian
Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings...

(1930–1956), US musician (jazz trumpeter)
Cliff Burton
Cliff Burton
Clifford Lee "Cliff" Burton was an American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American heavy metal band Metallica....

(1962–1986), US musician (bass guitarist, Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...

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Clifford Campbell
Clifford Campbell
Sir Clifford Clarence Campbell ON, GCMG, GCVO, K.St.J was the first Jamaican-born Governor-General of Jamaica. He served in that position from December 1, 1962, until March 2, 1973....

(1892-1991), Jamaican political figure
Clifford Carter
Clifford Carter
Clifford Carter is an American keyboardist.Carter is known for his performances with such artists as James Taylor, Michael Franks, and Herbie Mann and as a member of the groups Elements, Grace Pool, and the 24th Street Band....

(fl. 1980s-present), US musician
Clifford P. Case
Clifford P. Case
Clifford Philip Case was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives and the State of New Jersey in the United States Senate .-Biography:Clifford P. Case was born in Franklin Park in Somerset County, New Jersey...

(1904-1982), US attorney and political figure
Cliff Couser
Cliff Couser
Clifford Couser is a heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed "The Black Bull" and often "Twin Tyson" for his resemblance to Mike Tyson, Couser fought several contenders from his era...

(Clifford Couser, born 1971), a US athlete in boxing
Clifford Ann Creed
Clifford Ann Creed
Clifford Ann Creed is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Creed was born in Alexandria, Louisiana. She graduated from Lamar Tech in 1960 with a degree in physical education....

(born 1938), US female athlete in golf
Clifford Curry
Clifford Curry
Clifford Curry is an American beach music and R&B singer.His career began in high school. He was the member of several groups including: The Echoes, The Five Pennies , Hollyhocks , and the Bubba Suggs Band...

(born ca. 1940), US musician
Clifford Curzon
Clifford Curzon
Sir Clifford Michael Curzon, CBE was an English pianist.-Early life:Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg...

(1907-1982), English musician (piano)
Clifford David
Clifford David
Clifford David is an American actor born in Toledo, Ohio on June 30, 1938. He is recognized for his many Broadway, film and television performances.-Career:...

(born 1938), US actor
Clifford Davies
Clifford Davies
Clifford Davies was a British drummer, songwriter and producer.After receiving tuition from pipe band drummer Jock Cree, and playing local gigs in the Aldershot area, in the early 70s he went on to join the Roy Young Band then the second incarnation of British jazz-rock band If from 1972 to 1975...

(1948-2008), English musician (rock drummer)
Clifford Davis
Clifford Davis
Clifford Davis was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1940 to 1965.-Early life:Davis was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, moving to Memphis with his parents at age 14. There he completed the high school curriculum of the public schools, and in 1917 he completed law school at the...

(1897-1970), US political figure
Clifford Davis (music manager) (fl. 1960s-1980s), US musician and manager of musical groups
Clifford Dupont
Clifford Dupont
Clifford Walter Dupont, GCLM ID was a British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of Officer Administrating the Government and President...

(1905-1978), English-born political figure in Rhodesia
Clifford Durr
Clifford Durr
Clifford Durr was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras and who represented Rosa Parks in her challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance requiring the segregation of passengers on buses...

(1899-1975), US attorney and civil rights activist
C. M. Eddy, Jr.
C. M. Eddy, Jr.
Clifford Martin Eddy, Jr. was an American author best known for his horror and supernatural short stories. He is best remembered for his work in Weird Tales magazine.- Career :...

(1896–1967), American author
Clifford Evans
Clifford Evans
Clifford Evans was a Welsh actor. As a conscientious objector he served in the Non-Combatant Corps in World War II.During the summer of 1934 he appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Open Air Theatre in London....

(1912-1985), Welsh actor
Clifford Percy Evans
Clifford Percy Evans
Clifford Percy Evans was an American architect based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from Columbia University and became an apprentice to famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Illinois. In 1917 he established an architectural firm in Salt Lake City with Miles Miller and Taylor...

(1889–1973), US architect
Clifford Brodie Frith
Clifford Brodie Frith
Dr Clifford Brodie Frith is an English-born Australian citizen and ornithologist.-Life:He is a self-employed private, independent, zoological researcher, consultant, natural history author, photographer and publisher....

(born 1949), English-born Australian ornothologist
Clifford Carlson
Clifford Carlson
Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the men's college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1922 to 1953...

(1894-1964), US athlete in basketball
Clifford Forsythe
Clifford Forsythe
Clifford Forsythe was a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for South Antrim from 1983 to his death. He had previously been Mayor of Newtownabbey Borough Council, and was also a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1982 to 1986...

(1929-2000), Northern Ireland political figure
Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until...

(1926-2006), US anthropologist
Clifford Goodman
Clifford Goodman
Clifford Everard Goodman , was a cricketer. A right arm fast bowler, he was educated at The Lodge School, Barbados. He stood at 6 ft 4ins and took 126 wickets at 10.70 in his 15 match first class career...

(1866-1911), Barbados athlete in cricket
Clifford Goldstein
Clifford Goldstein
Clifford R. Goldstein is an American author and editor. He is a leading figure in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and espouses traditional Adventist beliefs.- Biography :...

(b. 1955), US author, Seventh-day Adventist editor
Chris Graham (boxer) (Clifford Graham, 1900-?)), Canadian athlete in boxing
Clifford Grey
Clifford Grey
Clifford Grey was an English songwriter, actor, librettist and Olympic medalist. His birth name was Percival Davis, and he was also known as Clifford Gray, Tippi Gray, Tippi Grey, Tippy Gray and Tippy Grey.As a writer, Grey contributed prolifically to West End and Broadway shows, as librettist and...

(1887-1941), British songwriter, actor (AKA Clifford Gray)
Clifford Hansen
Clifford Hansen
Clifford Peter Hansen was a Republican politician from the American state of Wyoming. He served as both the 26th Governor and U.S. senator...

(1912–2009), US politician
Clifford Harper
Clifford Harper
Clifford Harper is an illustrator and militant anarchist. He was born in Chiswick, West London on the 13th of July 1949. His father was a postman and his mother a cook. Expelled from school at 13 and placed on 2 years probation at 14, he then worked in a series of "menial jobs" before 'turning on,...

(born 1949), English illustrator, anarchist
T.I.
T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....

(Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., born 1980), US musician and producer
Clifford Heatherley
Clifford Heatherley
-Selected filmography:* The Tavern Knight * The Autumn of Pride * Mademoiselle from Armentieres * The King's Highway * The Constant Nymph * Champagne * The W Plan...

(1888-1937), English film actor
Clifford Husbands
Clifford Husbands
Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands, GCMG, KA, QC was the Governor-General of Barbados. He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of Dame Nita Barrow, until he retired on 31 October 2011.-External links:*...

(b. 1926), Barbados political figure
Clifford Irving
Clifford Irving
Clifford Michael Irving is an American author of novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for using forged handwritten letters to convince his publisher into accepting a fake "autobiography" of reclusive businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s...

(born 1930), US author
Clifford Irving (politician) (1914-2004), British political figure (Isle of Man)
Clifford Jarvis
Clifford Jarvis
Clifford Jarvis was an American hard bop and free jazz drummer.After studying at Berklee in the 1950s he established himself in jazz between 1959 and 1966 by recording with Chet Baker, Randy Weston, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Jackie McLean, and Elmo Hope, and playing with Grant...

(1941-1997), US musician (rock drummer)
Clifford Jordan
Clifford Jordan
Clifford Laconia Jordan was a jazz saxophone player. While in Chicago, he performed with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some rhythm and blues groups. He moved to New York City in 1957, after which he recorded three albums for Blue Note. He also recorded with Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Kenny...

(1931-1993), US musician (jazz saxophone)
C. H. B. Kitchin
C. H. B. Kitchin
Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin was a British novelist of the early twentieth century. He was best known for his mystery novels, notably Death of His Uncle and Death of My Aunt, but his other novels were also highly regarded, especially by other writers. His best known novels are The Auction Sale,...

(Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin, October 1895-1967), British author
Clifford J. Laube
Clifford J. Laube
Clifford J. Laube was an American Catholic poet, magazine and newspaper editor and publisher.Born to a prospecting couple in Telluride, Colorado, Clifford J. Laube spent most of his early years in poverty in Rico, Colorado. Upon the death of his mother, Laube was placed in an orphanage where he...

(1891–1974), US Catholic poet, editor and publisher
Clifford Lincoln
Clifford Lincoln
Clifford Albert Lincoln is a retired Canadian politician who served as a Quebec cabinet minister prior to serving in the Canadian House of Commons....

(born 1928), Canadian political figure
Carwood Lipton
Carwood Lipton
Second Lieutenant Clifford Carwood Lipton was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Lipton was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Donnie Wahlberg...

(Clifford Carwood Lipton, 1920-2001), British military figure
Clifford Sibusiso Mamba
Clifford Sibusiso Mamba
Clifford Sibusiso Mamba is a Swazi diplomat and former Olympic athlete. Mamba competed for Swaziland at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 100m and 200 m races.-Diplomacy:...

(born 1963), Swazi diplomat and former Olympic athlete
Clifford J. MacGregor
Clifford J. MacGregor
Clifford J. MacGregor was a meteorologist, Arctic explorer and naval aviator.-Military career:MacGregor was in the U.S. Navy until 1926 where he was trained to pilot Zeppelins at the Philadelphia Navy Yard....

(1904-1985), US meteorologist, Arctic explorer and naval aviator
Cliff Matthews
Cliff Matthews
Albert Clifford Matthews was a Manitoba lawyer and politician. In 1961, he ran for the leadership of the province's newly created New Democratic Party....

(Clifford Matthews, fl. 1960s), Canadian attorney and political figure
Clifford May
Clifford May
Clifford D. May is an American journalist, editor, and political activist. He is the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a conservative policy institute created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, and the Chairman of the Policy Committee department within the Committee on the...

(born 1951), US author, political activist
Cliff McWatt
Cliff McWatt
Clifford Aubrey McWatt was a West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests between 1954 and 1955....

(Clifford McWatt, 1922-1997), West Indian athlete in cricket
Clifford Meth
Clifford Meth
Clifford Lawrence Meth is an American writer and editor best known for his dark fiction. He has said that his work is often "self-consciously Jewish."-Early life:...

(born 1961), US author
Clifford Mulenga
Clifford Mulenga
Clifford Mulenga is a Zambian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bloemfontein Celtic F.C. in the South African Premier Soccer League.-Career:...

(born 1987), Zambian athlete in football
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass is a professor of communication at Stanford University, co-creator of The Media Equation theory, and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction. He is also known for his work on individual differences associated with multitasking. Nass is the Thomas M. Storke Professor at...

(born ca. 1958), US professor (Communications), author
Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester.-Early life:Odets was born in Philadelphia to Romanian- and Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Louis Odets and Esther Geisinger, and raised in Philadelphia and the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of high...

(1906–1963), US playwright, screenwriter, social activist
Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford A. Pickover is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction, and is employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York.- Biography :He received his Ph.D...

(born ca. 1958), US mathematician, author
Cliff Pilkey
Cliff Pilkey
Clifford George Pilkey is a former Canadian politician and trade union leader.Pilkey was an autoworker and United Auto Workers leader in Oshawa's Local 222 before being elected to the Ontario legislature as the Ontario New Democratic Party MPP for Oshawa in the 1967 provincial election...

(Clifford Pilkey, born 1928), Canadian politician and trade union leader
Fido Purpur (Clifford Joseph Purpur, 1912-2001), US athlete in hockey
Clifford Ray
Clifford Ray
Clifford Ray is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player. A 6–9 center, he played three of his ten seasons in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls and the other seven with the Golden State Warriors .-Career:Ray has won a NBA championship as a player and as a coach...

(born 1949), US athlete in basketball
Cliff Robinson (basketball, born 1960) (Clifford T. Robinson, born 1960), US athlete in basketball
Clifford Robinson (born 1966), US athlete in basketball
Clifford Rose
Clifford Rose
Clifford Rose is a British classical actor.He was born in Herefordshire. He was educated at the King's School, Worcester and King's College London, before appearing in rep and with the Royal Shakespeare Company....

(born 1929), British actor
Ronnie Shows
Ronnie Shows
Clifford Ronald "Ronnie" Shows is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi....

(Clifford Ronald "Ronnie" Shows, born 1947), US political figure
Clifford Shull
Clifford Shull
Clifford Glenwood Shull was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.-Biography:...

(1915-2001), US physicist (Nobel Prize)
Clifford Sifton
Clifford Sifton
Sir Clifford Sifton, PC, KCMG was a Canadian politician best known for being Minister of the Interior under Sir Wilfrid Laurier...

(1861-1929), Canadian political figure
Clifford D. Simak
Clifford D. Simak
Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo awards and by colleagues with one Nebula award and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1977.-Biography:Clifford Donald Simak was born in...

(1904–1988), US author (science fiction)
Method Man
Method Man
Clifford Smith , better known by his stage name Method Man is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man...

, (pseudonym of Clifford Smith, born 1971), US rap singer
Cliff Spink
Cliff Spink
Air Marshal Clifford Rodney Spink CB CBE FCMI FRAeS RAF R'td was a senior Royal Air Force officer during the early 1990s and is now a Spitfire display pilot on the national air display circuit. The first Spitfire he ever flew belonged to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, during his tenure as...

(Clifford Spink, fl. 1980s-present), British military officer (Royal Air Force)
Clifford Stein
Clifford Stein
Clifford Stein, a computer scientist, is currently a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Stein is chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research...

(born ca. 1965), US computer scientist
Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll
*High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian, Clifford Stoll, 2000, ISBN 0-385-48976-5.-External links:* at Berkeley's Open Computing Facility**, December 3, 1989* copy at Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 1988...

(born ca. 1956), US astronomer, computer expert, author
Clifford Taubes
Clifford Taubes
Clifford Henry Taubes is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology.-Early career:Taubes received his Ph.D...

(born 1954), US mathematician
Clifford Thornton
Clifford Thornton
Clifford Thornton was an American free jazz trumpeter and trombonist. Born in Philadelphia in 1939, he studied with trumpeter Donald Byrd in the mid-1950s and worked with various players such as tuba player Ray Draper. After a stint in the army, Thornton moved to New York City...

(1939-1989), US musician (jazz trumpet, trombone)
Johnny Rebel (singer)
Johnny Rebel (singer)
Johnny Rebel is the pseudonym of Cajun country musician Clifford Joseph Trahan , also known as Pee Wee Trahan. Trahan has used this pseudonym most notably on racist recordings issued in the 1960s on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label of Crowley, Louisiana...

(pseudonym of Cajun country musician Clifford Joseph Trahan, born 1938), US musician
Clifford Truesdell
Clifford Truesdell
Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of science, and polemicist.-Life:...

(1919-2000), US mathematician, historian
Clifford Walker (cricketer)
Clifford Walker (cricketer)
Clifford Walker was an English first-class cricketer, who played five matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1947 and 1948, and then 121 matches for Hampshire....

(1919–1992), British athlete in cricket
Clifford B. Wilson
Clifford B. Wilson
Clifford Brittin Wilson was an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1915 to 1921 and a mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut.-Early life:...

(1879-1943), US political figure
Clifford A. Wolff
Clifford A. Wolff
-Biographical and Historical Background:Clifford A. Wolff was born in New York City, New York on April 7, 1970. Mr. Wolff is the son of Judy Wolff and Malcolm Wolff. Malcolm Wolff was a Vice President for CBS in New York City, New York from 1980 to 1987...

(born 1970), US attorney

Surname

The Clifford family, an English noble family
The Clifford family (bankers)
Clifford family (bankers)
The Clifford family was a family of bankers, merchants and regenten of English descent active in Amsterdam. The family originated in northern England, though their surname originates in the village of Clifford. Northern England was the home of the noble Clifford family, since Roger Clifford was...

, a family of English bankers active in the Netherlands
Alesha Clifford
Alesha Clifford
Alesha Clifford is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League.-Honours:With Sydney FC: W-League Premiership: 2009 W-League Championship: 2009-External links:*...

(born 1991), Australian female athlete in football (soccer)
Alfred H. Clifford
Alfred H. Clifford
Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford was an American mathematician who is known for Clifford theory and for his work on semigroups. The Alfred H. CliffordMathematics Research Library at Tulane University is named after him....

(1908-1992), US mathematician
Lady Anne Clifford
Lady Anne Clifford
Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford was the only surviving child of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland by his wife Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford...

(1590–1676), Countess of Pembroke
Augustus Clifford (1788–1877), British naval officer and court official
Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford (1890–1969),Governor of Mauritius from 1937 to 1942
Betsy Clifford
Betsy Clifford
Betsy Clifford is a retired Canadian alpine skier.At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she was the youngest Canadian skier ever to compete. She finished 7th at the 1970 Alpine Skiing World Cup and 10th at the 1971 Alpine Skiing World Cup...

(born 1953), Canadian female athlete in skiing
Buzz Clifford
Buzz Clifford
Buzz Clifford is an American pop singer and songwriter.-Career:Clifford played guitar as a child and won several talent competitions as a teenager. He signed to Bow Records at age 15, releasing a few singles but finding no success. After signing with Columbia Records, he released the single "Hello...

(born 1941 as Reese Francis Clifford III), US musician and songwriter
Charles Clifford, any of several men with the name
Sir Charles Clifford, 1st Baronet (1813–1893), New Zealand politician
Clark Clifford
Clark Clifford
Clark McAdams Clifford was an American lawyer who served United States Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as United States Secretary of Defense for Johnson....

(1906–1998), US Secretary of Defense
Conor Clifford
Conor Clifford
Conor Paul Clifford is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Yeovil Town on loan from Chelsea. He is a Republic of Ireland youth international and has represented them at under-17, under-19, and under-21 level...

(born 1991), Irish athlete in football
Dermot Clifford (born 1939), English religious figure
Doug Clifford
Doug Clifford
Doug "Cosmo" Clifford played drums in the American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival...

(born 1945), US musician, member of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
Edward Clifford
Edward Clifford
Edward Clifford was an English artist and author born in Bristol. He is best known for his portraits in watercolor, and was associated with the Aesthetic Movement in late 19th-century England. He was also a member of the Church Army, which evangelized for the Church of England. Clifford visited...

(1844–1907), English artist and author
Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland (Born Eleanor Brandon, 1519-1547), English noblewoman
Francis Clifford (author)
Francis Clifford (author)
Francis Clifford is a pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a British writer of crime and thriller novels. He was born in Bristol, served with great distinction in the Second World War, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.-Novels:*Honour the Shrine *The Trembling Earth *Overdue...

(1917–1975), pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, author
George Clifford, any of several men with the name
George Clifford (footballer)
George Clifford (footballer)
George Clifford was a footballer who played in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Portsmouth.-References:...

(1899-?), English athlete in cricket
George Clifford III
George Clifford III
George Clifford III was a wealthy Dutch banker and one of the directors of the Dutch East India Company. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens...

, who engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné to write Hortus Cliffortianus
Gerald Francis Clifford
Gerald Francis Clifford
Gerald Francis Clifford enjoyed a state-wide reputation as a trial lawyer, politician and officer of the Green Bay Packers...

(1889-1952), a Wisconsin lawyer, politician and executive of the Green Bay Packers
Graeme Clifford
Graeme Clifford
For the opera singer with a similar name, see Grahame Clifford.Graeme Clifford is an acclaimed Australian film director, his directing credits include the Academy Award nominated film Frances, Gleaming the Cube and the mini-series The Last Don, which received two Emmy nominations.Clifford was a...

(born 1942), Australian film editor
Grahame Clifford
Grahame Clifford
For the film editor with a similar name, see Graeme Clifford.Grahame Clifford , was an English opera singer and actor primarily known for his work in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and as principal baritone of the Royal Opera Company, Covent Garden.-Life...

(1905-1984), English opera singer
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland KG was a member of the Clifford family which held the seat of Skipton from 1310 to 1676. He was a close friend of Henry VIII and his son Henry married the King's niece Lady Eleanor Brandon. He was created Earl of Cumberland on June 18, 1525 and made a Knight...

(1493–1542), British member of nobility in Skipton
Henry Hugh Clifford
Henry Hugh Clifford
Major General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford VC KCMG CB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Clifford was the third son of Hugh Charles Clifford, 7th...

(1826–1883), British army officer
Howard J. Clifford
Howard J. Clifford
-Political life:The Flint City Commission select him as Mayor in 1934 for a single year.-References:...

(fl. 1930s), US political figure in Michigan
Hugh Clifford
Hugh Clifford
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, GCMG, GBE was a British colonial administrator.-Early life:Clifford was born in Roehampton, London, the sixth of the eight children of Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford and his wife Josephine Elizabeth, née Anstice; his grandfather was Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron...

(1866-1941), British colonial administrator
Hughie Clifford
Hughie Clifford
Hugh "Hughie" Clifford was a Scottish professional footballer, who played for Carfin Shamrock, Hibernian, Derby County, Stoke, Celtic, Motherwell, Liverpool and Ardwick.-Career:...

(1866-1929), Scottish athlete in football
James Clifford
James Clifford
James Clifford is an historian and Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Clifford and Hayden White were among the first faculty directly appointed to the History of Consciousness Ph.D. program in 1978, which was originally the only...

(fl. 1970s-present), US university professor in California
James Clifford (musician)
James Clifford (musician)
James Clifford , was an English divine and musician.Clifford, son of Edward Clifford, a cook, was born at Oxford, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, where he was baptised on 2 May 1622. He was a chorister at Magdalen College from 1632 to 1642, and was educated in the choir school. He took no...

(1622-1698), English religious figure and musician
John Clifford
John Clifford (disambiguation)
John Clifford may refer to:* John Clifford , British nonconformist minister and politician* John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford , Lancastrian military leader during the Wars of the Roses...

, any of several men with the name
John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford
John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford
John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, also 9th Lord of Skipton was a Lancastrian military leader during the Wars of the Roses...

(1435-1461), British military leader
John Clifford (choreographer)
John Clifford (choreographer)
John Clifford, is best known as the creator of “Casablanca, The Dance,” produced by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc. and his Los Angeles Dance Theater, and founder / artistic director of the original Los Angeles Ballet , and the chamber sized touring ensemble, Ballet of Los Angeles...

, former New York City Ballet principal dancer
John Garry Clifford
John Garry Clifford
-External links:*...

(born 1942), US historian
Johnny Clifford
Johnny Clifford
Johnny Clifford was an Irish hurling manager and player. He played hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team in the 1950s...

(1934-2007), Irish athlete in hurling
J. R. Clifford
J. R. Clifford
J.R. Clifford was West Virginia’s first African-American attorney. Clifford was also a newspaper publisher, editor and writer, schoolteacher, and principal. He was a Civil War veteran, grandfather, as well as a civil rights pioneer and founding member of the Niagara Movement . Despite boundaries...

(1848-1933), US attorney, civil rights pioneer
Linda Clifford
Linda Clifford
Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light"....

(born 1944), US female musician and singer
Lucy Clifford
Lucy Clifford
Lucy Clifford , better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was a British novelist and journalist, and the wife of William Kingdon Clifford.-Biography:...

(1846–1929), British female author
Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland
Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland
Margaret Clifford , Countess of Cumberland was an English noblewoman and maid of honor to Elizabeth I. Lady Margaret was born in Exeter, England to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and Margaret St. John...

(born Margaret Russell, 1560-1616), English noblewoman
Max Clifford
Max Clifford
Maxwell Frank Clifford is an English publicist, considered the highest-profile and best-known publicist in the United Kingdom...

(born 1943), English publicist
Michael R. Clifford
Michael R. Clifford
Michael Richard Uram "Rich" Clifford , is a former U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut. Michael Clifford was born in San Bernardino, California, but considers Ogden, Utah to be his hometown. Clifford is married and has two sons...

(born 1952), US astronaut
Mike Clifford
Mike Clifford
Mike Clifford, , is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known for his 1962 pop hit, "Close To Cathy", which reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100....

(born 1943), US singer-songwriter and actor
Nathan Clifford
Nathan Clifford
Nathan Clifford was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist.Clifford was born of old Yankee stock in Rumney, New Hampshire, to farmers, the only son of seven children He attended the public schools of that town, then the Haverhill Academy in New...

(1803–1881), US statesman, diplomat and jurist
Patrick Clifford
Patrick Clifford
Patrick Clifford is a musician, songwriter, and producer of Irish and folk music, best known as a key member of Four to the Bar--a mainstay of the 1990s New York Irish music scene....

(born 1966), US musician
Paul Clifford (cricketer)
Paul Clifford (cricketer)
Paul Clifford was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Wiltshire. He was born in Swindon....

(born 1976), English athlete in cricket
Richard Clifford
Richard Clifford
Richard Clifford was a Bishop-elect of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of London as well as Lord Privy Seal.Clifford was appointed Lord Privy Seal on 14 November 1387, and resigned on 4 November 1401....

(died 1421), British religious figure
Robert Clifford, any of several men with the name
Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford , often called "The Fair Rosamund" or the "Rose of the World", was famed for her beauty and was a mistress of King Henry II of England, famous in English folklore....

(c. 1150-1176), "Fair Rosamund", mistress of Henry II of England
Ross Clifford
Ross Clifford
Ross Clifford is an Australian Baptist theologian, political commentator, radio personality and author. A former lawyer who later joined the ministry, Clifford became a campaigner on moral issues while a suburban Sydney pastor in the 1980s...

(born 1951), Australian radio personality, author
Simon Clifford
Simon Clifford
Simon Darcy Clifford is an English football coach, and a businessman known for introducing Brazilian training techniques into the UK with his Brazilian Soccer Schools....

(born 1970), English football coach
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English statesman and politician, was created the first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh on 22 April 1672 for his suggestion that the King supply himself with money by stopping, for one year, all payments out of the Exchequer.He was born in Ugbrooke,...

(1630-1673), British politician and statesman
Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (born 1948), a British baron
Tom Clifford
Tom Clifford
Tom Clifford is a former municipal politician in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.He served twenty-seven years as an elected official as School Trustee for the Toronto Board of Education and as a City of Toronto Councillor representing the East Toronto and Riverdale area.In a 1978 federal...

(fl. 1970s-2000s), Canadian political figure
W. K. Clifford, any of several persons with those initials
William Clifford
William Clifford (disambiguation)
William Clifford may refer to:* William Clifford * William Clifford , English cricketer* William Clifford , American actor of the silent era...

any of several men with the name
William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford FRS was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour, with interesting applications in contemporary mathematical physics...

(1845–1879), English mathematician and philosopher

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