Clifford (name)
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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.
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- Clifford AndrewsClifford AndrewsClifford 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 AntoneClifford AntoneClifford 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 BerryClifford BerryClifford 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 BaxClifford BaxClifford 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 BosworthClifford Edmund BosworthClifford 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 BrownClifford BrownClifford 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 BurtonCliff BurtonClifford 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, MetallicaMetallicaMetallica 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 ...
) - Clifford CampbellClifford CampbellSir 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 CarterClifford CarterClifford 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. CaseClifford P. CaseClifford 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 CouserCliff CouserClifford 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 CreedClifford Ann CreedClifford 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 CurryClifford CurryClifford 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 CurzonClifford CurzonSir 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 DavidClifford DavidClifford 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 DaviesClifford DaviesClifford 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 DavisClifford DavisClifford 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 DupontClifford DupontClifford 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 DurrClifford DurrClifford 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 EvansClifford EvansClifford 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 EvansClifford Percy EvansClifford 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 FrithClifford Brodie FrithDr 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 CarlsonClifford CarlsonHenry 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 ForsytheClifford ForsytheClifford 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 GeertzClifford GeertzClifford 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 GoodmanClifford GoodmanClifford 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 GoldsteinClifford GoldsteinClifford 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 GreyClifford GreyClifford 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 HansenClifford HansenClifford 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 HarperClifford HarperClifford 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 HeatherleyClifford 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 HusbandsClifford HusbandsSir 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 IrvingClifford IrvingClifford 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 JarvisClifford JarvisClifford 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 JordanClifford JordanClifford 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. KitchinC. H. B. KitchinClifford 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. LaubeClifford J. LaubeClifford 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 LincolnClifford LincolnClifford 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 LiptonCarwood LiptonSecond 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 MambaClifford Sibusiso MambaClifford 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. MacGregorClifford J. MacGregorClifford 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 MatthewsCliff MatthewsAlbert 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 MayClifford MayClifford 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 McWattCliff McWattClifford 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 MethClifford MethClifford 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 MulengaClifford MulengaClifford 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 NassClifford NassClifford 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 OdetsClifford OdetsClifford 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. PickoverClifford A. PickoverClifford 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 PilkeyCliff PilkeyClifford 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 RayClifford RayClifford 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 RoseClifford RoseClifford 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 ShowsRonnie ShowsClifford 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 ShullClifford ShullClifford Glenwood Shull was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.-Biography:...
(1915-2001), US physicist (Nobel Prize) - Clifford SiftonClifford SiftonSir 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. SimakClifford D. SimakClifford 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 ManMethod ManClifford 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 SpinkCliff SpinkAir 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 SteinClifford SteinClifford 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 StollClifford 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 TaubesClifford TaubesClifford 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 ThorntonClifford ThorntonClifford 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 TruesdellClifford TruesdellClifford 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. WilsonClifford B. WilsonClifford 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. WolffClifford 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 CliffordAlesha CliffordAlesha 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. CliffordAlfred H. CliffordAlfred 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 CliffordLady Anne CliffordLady 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 CliffordBetsy CliffordBetsy 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 CliffordBuzz CliffordBuzz 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 CliffordClark CliffordClark 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 CliffordConor CliffordConor 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 CliffordDoug CliffordDoug "Cosmo" Clifford played drums in the American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival...
(born 1945), US musician, member of Creedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence Clearwater RevivalCreedence 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 CliffordEdward CliffordEdward 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 IIIGeorge Clifford IIIGeorge 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 CliffordGerald Francis CliffordGerald 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 CliffordGraeme CliffordFor 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 CliffordGrahame CliffordFor 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 CumberlandHenry Clifford, 1st Earl of CumberlandHenry 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 CliffordHenry Hugh CliffordMajor 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. CliffordHoward 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 CliffordHugh CliffordSir 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 CliffordHughie CliffordHugh "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 CliffordJames CliffordJames 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 CliffordJohn 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 CliffordJohn Clifford, 9th Baron de CliffordJohn 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 CliffordJohn Garry Clifford-External links:*...
(born 1942), US historian - Johnny CliffordJohnny CliffordJohnny 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. CliffordJ. R. CliffordJ.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 CliffordLinda CliffordLinda 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 CliffordLucy CliffordLucy 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 CumberlandMargaret Clifford, Countess of CumberlandMargaret 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 CliffordMax CliffordMaxwell Frank Clifford is an English publicist, considered the highest-profile and best-known publicist in the United Kingdom...
(born 1943), English publicist - Michael R. CliffordMichael R. CliffordMichael 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 CliffordMike CliffordMike 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 CliffordNathan CliffordNathan 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 CliffordPatrick CliffordPatrick 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 CliffordRichard CliffordRichard 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 CliffordRosamund CliffordRosamund 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 CliffordRoss CliffordRoss 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 CliffordSimon CliffordSimon 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 ChudleighThomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of ChudleighThomas 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 CliffordTom CliffordTom 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 CliffordWilliam 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 CliffordWilliam Kingdon CliffordWilliam 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
See also
- Baron CliffordBaron CliffordThe barony of this name has been in abeyance since 1858 – for the baronies with similar names that remain extant see Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and Baron de Clifford----...
- Baron de CliffordBaron de CliffordBaron de Clifford is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1299 for Robert de Clifford. The title was created by writ, which means that it can descend through both male and female lines. The de Clifford family settled in England after the Norman conquest and were a notable family in...
- Clifford BaronetsClifford BaronetsThere have been two Baronetcies created for a person with the surname Clifford.The Clifford Baronetcy, of the Navy was created for Augustus William James Clifford, the illegitimate son of the 5th Duke of Devonshire on August 4, 1838 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...
- Lord Clifford (disambiguation)