Claude as First Name

Claude Lévi Strauss            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Claude Lévi Strauss: is a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. Outside anthropology, his works have had a large influence on contemporary thought, in particular on the practice of structuralism. Lévi-Strauss is a reference for authors such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Rene Girard, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler.

Claude Elwood Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Claude Elwood Shannon: an American electrical engineer and mathematician, was "the father of information theory".Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time.

Claude Helffer            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Claude Helffer: was a French pianist noted particularly for his advocacy of 20th-century music.He was born in Paris, and began piano lessons at the age of five and from the age of ten until the outbreak of World War II he studied with Robert Casadesus. During the War he entered the élite École polytechnique and fought for the Resistance (in the Maquis du Vercors). After the War he studied theory and composition with René Leibowitz. He made his début in Paris in 1948 and from 1954 appeared regularly in the concerts of the Domaine musical.

Claude Nougaro            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Claude Nougaro: was a French songwriter and singer.Born in Paris to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro and an Italian piano teacher, Liette Tellini, Claude Nougaro was raised by his grandparents in Toulouse where he heard Glenn Miller, Édith Piaf, Emma Healy Mary O'Hora and Louis Armstrong (among others) on the radio. In 1947 he failed his baccalaureat and began a career in journalism, writing for various journals including Le Journal des Curistes at Vichy and L'Echo d'Alger. At the same time he wrote songs for Marcel Amont ("Le barbier de Belleville", "Le balayeur du roi") and Philippe Clay ("Joseph", "La sentinelle"). He met Georges Brassens, who became his friend and mentor.

Claude Bolling            Origin/Culture/Country: French
Claude Bolling: is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke. Bolling's books on jazz technique show that he did not delve far beyond bebop into much avant garde jazz. He was a major part of the traditional jazz revival in the late 1960's, and he became friends with Oscar Peterson.

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