Famous People with Name Clifton

Clifton Reece Gaines            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clifton Reece Gaines: is a professional basketball player for Benetton Treviso in the Italian Serie A.Gaines, a 6'6", 205 lb (1.98 m, 93 kg) point guard played high school basketball at Madison West in his hometown. He then played four years at University of Louisville, earning AP All-America 3rd team honors his senior season while leading the Cardinals to a 25-7 win-loss record.

Clifton Cedric Cliff Edom            Origin/Culture/Country:

Clifton Cedric Cliff Edom: often credited as the "Father of Photojournalism", was prolific in the development of photojournalism education.After receiving a teaching certificate from the Western Illinois State Teachers College, now Western Illinois University, in 1925, Edom attended a linotype school and worked for several newspapers. He married Vilia Clarissa "Vi" Patefield (1908-2004) on June 30, 1928, and the couple bought the weekly Edgar News in Edgar, Wisconsin, working with it until 1930 when Edom began work with the Wausau Record-Herald in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Clifton Eugene Abraham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clifton Eugene Abraham: was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Chicago Bears, and the Carolina Panthers. He played college football at Florida State University

Clifton Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clifton Brown: a professional Jamaican-Canadian Light Heavyweight kickboxer and martial artist fighting out of Siam No.1 Muay Thai Academy in Toronto, Canada. He is the current WMC Muay Thai Super Light Heavyweight World champio

Clifton Ernest Pugh            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Clifton Ernest Pugh: was an Australian artist, who won the Archibald Prize three times, and an Order of Australia medal in 1985. A pioneering environmental activist, he was known for his landscapes, and also for portraiture. He was a member of the Antipodeans Group, who protested against Abstract Expressionism.In 1951 he started buying up former farming land at Cottles Bridge near the town of Hurstbridge, north of Melbourne, and built a small shack out of natural materials scavenged from the area. After a time he moved his family into the rudimentary dwelling and decided to attempt to live in harmony with nature. Pugh became committed to seeing the Australian bush rejuvenate in the surrounding land, buying up further paddocks, pulling down fences, uprooting exotic plants and weeds, and starting a wild animal shelter. The close observation of the nature and its cyclical rhythms became a key theme in Pugh's paintings from this time, leading to his later being recognised as a pioneer in Environmental art.

Lucille Clifton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lucille Clifton: is an American poet, writer, and educator from New York. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body.

Brian Clifton            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Brian Clifton: is a Flemish Belgian composer, best known for composing the scores to the movies Ellektra by Rudolf Mestdagh and the Hollywood movie Bird of Prey featuring Jennifer Tilly, Richard Chamberlain and Lesley Ann Warren.

Nathaniel Clifton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathaniel Clifton: was an American multi-sport athlete best known as the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association.

Shaw Clifton            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Shaw Clifton: is the General of The Salvation Army. He succeeded John Larsson as the 18th General on 2nd April, 2006. He has the academic qualifications LLB(Hons), BDTheol(Hons), PhD and AKC(Theol).

Jane Clifton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Jane Clifton: a Gibraltar born actress and singer who lived as a child in Cardiff, South Wales UK[citation needed]. In 1961 she emigrated to Perth, Australia. Her best known acting role is probably that of tough prison bookie Margo Gaffney in Prisoner. She played the role from 1980 until 1984 on an intermittent basis, having previously appeared in a different, minor role, in earlier episodes.