Clovis may refer to:
People
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Clovis (given name), the early medieval (Frankish) form of the name Louis
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Clovis I
Clovis (; reconstructed Old Frankish, Frankish: ; – 27 November 511) was the first List of Frankish kings, king of the Franks to unite all of the Franks under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a ...
(c. 466 – 511), the first king of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler
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Clovis II (c. 634 – c. 657), king of Neustria and Burgundy and first of the
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Clovis III (reigned 675–676), king of Austrasia, considered a usurper by some
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Clovis IV (c. 677–694), boy king of the Franks from 691 until 694
** Clovis (died 580), son of
Chilperic I
Chilperic I ( 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of the Franks, Frankish king Clotaire I and Queen Aregund.
Life
Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he ...
and Audovera, assassinated by his father and stepmother
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Clóvis (footballer, born 1937), Clóvis Pinheiro dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
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Clóvis (footballer, born 1970), Clóvis Bento da Cruz, Brazilian football striker
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Anzick-1, a prehistoric person sometimes referred to as the "Clovis Boy" or "Clovis Child" because of his association with
Clovis culture
The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone too ...
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Places
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Clovis, California
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Clovis Unified School District, serving Clovis and Fresno
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Clovis, New Mexico
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Clovis Municipal School District
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Clovis Municipal Airport
Archaeology
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Clovis culture
The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone too ...
, Paleo-Indian culture of North America
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Clovis point, the oldest flint tools associated with the North American Clovis culture
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Clovis comet, a hypothetical impact event around 12,800 years ago
Other
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Clovis Dardentor'', 1896 fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne
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Clovis Sangrail, a character in the short stories of
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and ...
, named because he was "so appallingly frank"
* Clovis, the main antagonist in the
1997 ''Blade Runner'' video game
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Clovis la Britannia, a character in the anime series ''Code Geass''
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Clovis Crawfish the lead character in the book series ''Clovis the Crawfish''
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Clovis Oncology
Clovis Oncology is an American pharmaceutical company which mainly markets products for treatment in oncology. Clovis was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. The company is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the sy ...
, pharmaceutical company
See also
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Clovis High School (disambiguation)
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