Clifton is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Clifton R. Breckinridge (1846-1932), American politician
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Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), was an American Creole musician known as a pioneer of zydeco, a style of music which arose from Creole music, with R&B, blues, and Cajun influences. He sang and played the accordion and ...
(1925–1987), American zydeco musician
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Clifton Collins Jr. (born 1970), American actor
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Clifton Davis
Clifton Duncan Davis (born October 4, 1945) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, minister, and author.
Davis wrote The Jackson 5's No. 2 hit " Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1971. He appeared on Broadway in the musicals ''Two Gentlemen of Veron ...
(born 1945), American actor
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Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career.
Background
Born in Bro ...
(1904-1999), American radio and television personality
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Clifton Grima
Clifton Grima is a Maltese lawyer and politician who has served in the Parliament of Malta since 2016. A member of the Labour Party, Grima is also the Minister for Education and Sport.
Political career
In 2010, Grima graduated from the Unive ...
, Maltese politician
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Clifton A. Hall (1826-1913), a Rhode Island architect
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Clifton James
George Clifton James (May 29, 1920 – April 15, 2017) was an American actor known for roles as a prison floorwalker in '' Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films '' Live and Let Die'' ( ...
(1921–2017), American actor
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Clifton Jones (born 1937), Jamaican actor
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Clifton Leaf, American journalist, editor of Fortune magazine
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Clifton Maloney
Clifton Harlan Wells Maloney (October 15, 1937 – September 25, 2009) was an American businessman.
Early life
Maloney graduated from Princeton University in 1960 and Harvard Business School in 1965. He was in the United States Navy from 1960 to ...
(1937-2009), American businessman
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Clifton Parker (1905–1989), English composer
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Clifton Sandvliet (born 1977), Surinamese retired footballer
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Clifton Sprague
Clifton Albert Frederick "Ziggy" Sprague (January 8, 1896 – April 11, 1955) was a World War II-era officer in the United States Navy.
Biography
Sprague was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Roxbury Latin School. He enter ...
(1896–1955), World War II–era officer in the U.S. Navy
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Clifton Sunada
Clifton S. "Cliff" Sunada (born May 18, 1971 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a retired male judoka from the United States.
Sunada claimed the silver medal in the Men's Flyweight (– 56 kg) division at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. I ...
(born 1971), American judoka
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Clifton Webb
Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, in ...
(1889–1966), American actor
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Clifton Williams
Clifton Curtis Williams Jr. (September 26, 1932 – October 5, 1967), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went i ...
(1932–1967), NASA astronaut and USMC Major
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