Famous People with Name Claude

Claude Barrows Jennings            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Claude Barrows Jennings: Jennings was a right-hand opening batsman and occasional wicket-keeper who had a fairly undistinguished domestic cricketing career in Australia in which he scored just one century and averaged, in first-class matches, little over 20 runs per innings. He owed his selection for the Australian team that contested the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England to the dispute between the Australian Cricket Board of Control and senior players, including Clem Hill and Victor Trumper, which led to six leading players being omitted from the touring party.

Claude John Tozer            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Claude John Tozer: was an Australian medical doctor and first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales. He was the nephew of Australian Test cricketer Percie Charlton. In May 1915 he enlisted in the army with the rank of Captain and was posted to the 1st Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli.

Claude Hilton Matthews            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Claude Hilton Matthews: was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1934 until his death in 1954 . He was variously a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Australian Labor Party (NSW). He held a number of ministerial p

Georges Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: Parsi

Georges Claude: was the first to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas (circa 1902) to create a lamp. Inspired in part by Daniel McFarlan Moore's invention, Moore's Lamp, Paris-born Claude invented the neon lamp by passing an electric current through inert gases, making them glow very brightly.The first man to display neon lighting was Nikola Tesla at the World Columbian Exposition, international Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. His innovations in this type of light emission were not regularly patented.[1][2]In 1902 Georges Claude and businessman Paul Delorme founded L'Air Liquide S.A. (Air Liquide) based on a method to liquify air that enabled large scale production of oxygen. Air Liquide presently exists as a large multinational corporation headquartered in Paris, France.

Jean Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean Claude: was a French Protestant divine.He was born at La Sauvetat-du-Dropt near Agen. After studying at Montauban, Jean Claude entered the ministry in 1645. For eight years he was professor of theology in the Protestant college of Nîmes; but in 1661, having succe

Mathieu Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Mathieu Claude: is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Bbox Bouygues Telecom.

Jacques Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jacques Claude: was a French politician before, during, and after the French Revolution. His son Auguste Arthur Beugnot was an historian and scholar.

Florimond Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Florimond Claude: was an Austrian diplomat. He was the son of Antoine, comte de Mercy-Argenteau, and entered the diplomatic service of Austria going to Paris in the train of Reichsfürst Kaunitz. He became Austrian minister at Turin, at St Petersburg, and in 1766 at Paris,