Cleve
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Surname

  • Astrid Cleve
    Astrid Cleve
    Astrid M. Cleve von Euler was a Swedish botanist, geologist, chemist and researcher at Uppsala University. She was the first female in Sweden to obtain a doctoral degree of science.-Life:...

     (1875–1968), Swedish biologist, geologist, chemist and researcher, first woman in Sweden to obtain a doctorate in science
  • Bastian Clevé
    Bastian Clevé
    Bastian Clevé, born January 1, 1950 in Munich, is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.-Biography:Clevé grew up in Hamburg...

     (born 1950), German film director
  • Benjamin Van Cleve
    Benjamin Van Cleve
    Benjamin Van Cleve was a pioneer settler of Dayton, Ohio in the United States. He held several offices in the town....

     (1773–1821), a pioneer settler of Dayton, Ohio
  • Cornelius van Cleve
    Cornelius van Cleve
    Cornelis van Cleve was a Netherlandish painter.He was the son of Joos van Cleve...

     (1520–1567), painter
  • Halfdan Cleve
    Halfdan Cleve
    Halfdan Cleve was a Norwegian composer, born and raised in Kongsberg. He lived some time in Germany. Some examples on his output as a composer are piano concertos, other piano works, and some chamber music. He was described as a child prodigy...

     (1879–1951), Norwegian composer
  • Jim Van Cleve
    Jim Van Cleve
    Jim Van Cleve, born October 12, 1978 in Canton, North Carolina is an American fiddle player, songwriter, session musician, and producer. He is a founding member of the popular band Mountain Heart, and a Grammy winning session musician and Grammy nominated solo artist.Van Cleve won many fiddle...

     (born 1978), American musician, songwriter and producer
  • John Cleve, a pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt
    Andrew J. Offutt
    Andrew Jefferson Offutt is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters.-Life and family:Offutt has been married for over 50 years to Jodie McCabe...

     (born 1934), American science fiction writer
  • Joos van Cleve
    Joos van Cleve
    Joos van Cleve was a painter active in Antwerp around 1511 to 1540. He was born around 1485 and died in between 1540 and 1541...

     (c. 1485–1540/41), Flemish painter, father of Cornelius
  • Hendrick Van Cleve
    Hendrick Van Cleve
    Hendrick Van Cleve, the brother of Martin Van Cleve, the elder, and of Willem Van Cleve, the younger, was a native of Antwerp. It is not known under whom he studied; but he went to Italy when young, and returned to his native country a good painter of landscapes. His pictures are distinguished by...

     (died 1589), painter and engraver born in Antwerp
  • Horatio P. Van Cleve
    Horatio P. Van Cleve
    Horatio Phillips Van Cleve was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

     (1809–1891), Union general in the American Civil War
  • James Van Cleve
    James Van Cleve
    James M. Van Cleve was the fourth ever known person to be paid to play football. Only Pudge Heffelfinger, Sport Donnelly and Peter Wright were professionals before him. Van Cleve's contract was with the Allegheny Athletic Association for $50 per game for the entire 1893 season.In 1894, during a...

    , football player in the United States, only the fourth known professional player
  • Martin Van Cleve
    Martin Van Cleve
    Martin Van Cleve was a Flemish painter, the son of the painter William and was throughout his life closely associated with his brother Hendrick, who exerted great influence over his artistic career....

     (1520&ndash1570), Flemish painter, brother of Hendrick and probably related to Joos
  • Per Teodor Cleve
    Per Teodor Cleve
    Per Teodor Cleve was a Swedish chemist and geologist.After graduating from the Stockholm Gymnasium in 1858, Cleve matriculated at Uppsala University in May 1858, where he received his PhD in 1863...

     (1840–1905), Swedish chemist and geologist
  • Richard Cleve
    Richard Cleve
    Richard Erwin Cleve is a professor of computer science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Institute for Quantum Computing Chair in quantum computing, and an associate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical...

    , Canadian computer scientist
  • Rudolf Cleve
    Rudolf Cleve
    Rudolf Cleve was a highly decorated Hauptmann in the Luftwaffe during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership...

     (1919–1997), highly decorated Luftwaffe officer of World War II
  • Schoolboy Cleve
    Schoolboy Cleve
    Schoolboy Cleve was an American blues harmonica player, who worked with Lightnin' Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy....

     (1925–2008), American harmonica player

Given name

  • Cleve Benedict
    Cleve Benedict
    Cleveland Keith Benedict , better known as Cleve Benedict, is a retired Republican politician from West Virginia.Benedict was born in 1935 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was educated in public and private schools and then graduated from Princeton University in 1957...

     (born 1935), American retired politician
  • Cleve Bryant
    Cleve Bryant
    Cleve Bryant is the former head football coach of Ohio University, and the former Associate Athletics Director for Football Operations for the Texas Longhorns football team. His responsibilities ranged from administrative operations to scheduling, as well as day to day operations of the football...

    , college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
  • Cleve Cartmill
    Cleve Cartmill
    Cleve Cartmill was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cleve Cartmill affair", when his 1944 story "Deadline" attracted the attention of the FBI by reason of its detailed description of a nuclear weapon...

     (1908–1964), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
  • Cleve Gray
    Cleve Gray
    Cleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...

     (1918–2004), American abstract expressionist painter
  • Cleve Jones
    Cleve Jones
    Cleve Jones is an American AIDS and LGBT rights activist. He conceived of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt which has become, at 54 tons, the world's largest piece of community folk art as of 2009...

     (born 1954), American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
  • Cleve Moler
    Cleve Moler
    Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the...

     (born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist

Places

  • The historical Duchy of Cleves
    Duchy of Cleves
    The Duchy of Cleves was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. It was situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine, around its capital Cleves and the town of Wesel, bordering the lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west...

  • Kleve
    Kleve
    Kleve , is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century onwards, Kleve was capital of a county and later a duchy...

    , a town in Germany known historically in English as Cleves
  • Cleve, South Australia
    Cleve, South Australia
    Cleve is a small agriculturally based town on Central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is 226 km southwest of Port Augusta and 143 km north of Port Lincoln...

    , a town
  • "The Cleve", a nickname for Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

  • Cleves, Ohio
    Cleves, Ohio
    Cleves is a village, founded in 1818, along the Ohio River in western Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,790 at the 2000 census...

    , a village

See also

  • Kleve (disambiguation)
    Kleve (disambiguation)
    Kleve may refer to the following places in Germany:*Kleve, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia*Kleve, Dithmarschen, a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein...

  • Cleave (disambiguation)
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