Cleve
Cleve or Cleves may refer to:
People
Surname
- Astrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish biologist, geologist, chemist and researcher, first woman in Sweden to obtain a doctorate in science
- Bastian Clevé (born 1950), German film director
- Benjamin Van Cleve (1773–1821), a pioneer settler of Dayton, Ohio
- Cornelius van Cleve (1520–1567), painter
- Halfdan Cleve (1879–1951), Norwegian composer
- Jim Van Cleve (born 1978), American musician, songwriter and producer
- John Cleve, a pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt (born 1934), American science fiction writer
- Joos van Cleve (c. 1485–1540/41), Flemish painter, father of Cornelius
- Hendrick Van Cleve (died 1589), painter and engraver born in Antwerp
- Horatio P. Van Cleve (1809–1891), Union general in the American Civil War
- James Van Cleve, football player in the United States, only the fourth known professional player
- Martin Van Cleve (1520&ndash1570), Flemish painter, brother of Hendrick and probably related to Joos
- Per Teodor Cleve (1840–1905), Swedish chemist and geologist
- Richard Cleve, Canadian computer scientist
- Rudolf Cleve (1919–1997), highly decorated Luftwaffe officer of World War II
- Schoolboy Cleve (1925–2008), American harmonica player
Given name
- Cleve Benedict (born 1935), American retired politician
- Cleve Bryant, college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
- Cleve Cartmill (1908–1964), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
- Cleve Gray (1918–2004), American abstract expressionist painter
- Cleve Jones (born 1954), American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
- Cleve Moler (born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist
Places
Other uses
- Cleve RFC, an English amateur rugby union club
See also