Claude may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Claude (given name) Claude is a French given name originating from the Latin name Claudius meaning "strong willed". In French, it is used for both men and women. In English, it is mostly used for men; it is an uncommon given name for women or a family name. Men *Cl ...

, a list of people and fictional characters *

Claude (surname) Claude is a surname. It may refer to : * Albert Claude (1899–1983), a Belgian Nobel Prize in Medicine recipient * Bonivert Claude (born 1945), a Former Bank of Haïti governor * Desmond Claude (born 2003), American basketball player * Françoi ...

, a list of people * Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter *

Claude Debussy Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...

(1862–1918), French composer * Claude Kiambe (born 2003), Congolese-born Dutch singer *

Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss ( ; ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair o ...

(1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist *

Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in I ...

(c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English *

Claude Makélélé Claude Makélélé Sinda (born 18 February 1973) is a French Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, professional player who played as a defensive midfielder. He last managed Super League Greece club Astera ...

(born 1973), French football manager *

Claude McKay Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890See Wayne F. Cooper, ''Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner In The Harlem Renaissance'' (New York, Schocken, 1987) p. 377 n. 19. As Cooper's authoritative biography explains, McKay's family predate ...

(1890–1948), Jamaican-American writer and poet *

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

(1840–1926), French painter *

Claude Rains William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was a British and American actor whose career spanned almost seven decades. He was the recipient of numerous accolades, including four Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Supp ...

(1889–1967), British-American actor *

Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor known as the "father of information theory" and the man who laid the foundations of th ...

(1916–2001), American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist *

Madame Claude Fernande Grudet (6 July 1923 – 15 December 2015), also known as Madame Claude, was a French brothel keeper. In the 1960s, she was the head of a French network of call girls who worked especially for dignitaries and civil servants. Biogra ...

(1923–2015), French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet

Places

Claude, Texas Claude is a city in and the county seat of Armstrong County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,186 at the 2020 census. It is located east of Amarillo in the south Texas Panhandle. Claude is part of the Amarillo metropolitan statist ...

, a city *

Claude, West Virginia Claude is an unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal ...

, an unincorporated community

Other uses

* Allied reporting name of the

Mitsubishi A5M The Mitsubishi A5M, formal Japanese Navy designation , experimental Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Experimental 9-''Shi'' Carrier Fighter, company designation Mitsubishi ''Ka''-14, was a WWII-era Japanese Aircraft carrier, carrier-based fighter ...

Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft *

Claude (alligator) Claude (hatched September 15, 1995) is an albino alligator ('' Alligator mississippiensis'') at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California, United States. Claude lacks the pigment melanin, resulting in colorless skin, an ...

, an albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences *

Claude (language model) Claude is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic. The first model was released in March 2023. The Claude 3 family, released in March 2024, consists of three models: Haiku, optimized for speed; Sonnet, which balances capabi ...

, a family of large language models developed by Anthropic *

Claud Claud is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Claud Allister (1888–1970), English actor *Claud Beelman (1883–1963), American architect *Claud Irvine Boswell (1742–1824), Scottish judge *Claud Thomas Bourchier (1831–1877), E ...

, a given name *

Claude's syndrome Claude's syndrome is a form of brainstem stroke syndrome characterized by the presence of an ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy, contralateral hemiparesis, contralateral ataxia, and contralateral hemiplegia of the lower face, tongue, and shoulder ...

, a form of brainstem stroke syndrome {{disambig, geo