Clive

For other uses, see Clive (disambiguation).

Clive is a name. People and fictional characters with the name include:

People

Given name

• Clive Allen (born 1961), English football player
• Clive Anderson (born 1952), British television, radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister
• Clive Barker (born 1952), English writer, film director and visual artist
• Clive Barker (artist, born 1940), British pop artist
• Clive Barker (soccer) (born 1944), South African coach
• Clive Barnes (1927–2008), English writer and critic, dance and theater critic for The New York Times
• Clive Bell (1881–1964), English art critic
• Clive Brook (1887–1974), British film actor
• Clive Burr (1957–2013), British musician, former drummer with Iron Maiden
• Clive Campbell (footballer), New Zealand footballer in the 1970s and early '80s
• Clive Campbell (born 1955), Jamaican-born DJ with the stage name DJ Kool Herc
• Clive Clark (golfer) (born 1945), English golfer
• Clive Clark (footballer) (1940–2014), English former footballer
• Clive Clarke (born 1980), Irish footballer
• Clive Coates (born 1941), British wine writer and Master of Wine
• Clive Cussler (1931–2020), American novelist and underwater explorer
• Clive Davis (born 1932), American record producer
• Clive Doucet (born 1946), Canadian writer and politician
• Clive Donner (1926–2010), British film director
• Clive Dunn (1920–2012), English actor
• Clive Evans (footballer) (born 1957), English former footballer
• Clive Evans (fashion designer) (born 1933), London fashion designer of the 1960s, better known as 'Clive'
• Clive Feigenbaum (1939–2007), British businessman
• Clive Finlayson (born 1955), Gibraltarian zoologist, paleoanthropologist and paleontologist
• Clive Francis (born 1946), British actor
• Clive Gregson (born 1955), English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
• Clive Granger (1934–2009), British econometrician
• Clive Hamilton (born 1953), Australian public intellectual
• Clive Hirschhorn (born 1940), South African writer and critic, longtime film and theater critic
• Clive Hollick (born 1945), British businessman
• Clive Hulme (1911–1982), New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Clive Irvine (1893–1974), Scottish medical missionary
• Clive James (1939–2019), Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
• Clive Johnstone (1963–2024), British Royal Navy officer
• Clive Jones (rugby), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1970s
• Clive Lewis (disambiguation)
• Clive Lloyd (born 1944), Guyanese-British cricketer
• Clive Mantle (born 1957), English actor
• Clive Matson (born 1941), American poet and writer
• Clive Matthewson (born 1944), New Zealand civil engineer and former politician
• Clive Myrie (born 1964), British journalist
• Clive Nolan (born 1961), British musician, composer and producer
• Clive Oppenheimer (born 1964), British volcanologist
• Clive Owen (born 1964), English actor
• Clive Palmer (born 1954), Australian businessman and politician
• Clive Palmer (1943–2014), English folk musician and banjoist
• Clive Parker (born 1960), English drummer
• Clive Phillpot (born 1938), British librarian
• Clive Ponting (1946–2020), British civil servant and historian
• Clive Revill (born 1930), New Zealand actor
• Clive Rice (1949–2015), South African international cricketer
• Clive Rowe (born 1964), British actor
• Clive Russell (born 1945), Scottish actor
• Clive Sinclair (1940–2021), British entrepreneur and inventor
• Clive Smith (footballer, born 1923) (1923–1999), Australian rules footballer
• Clive A. Smith (born 1944), British director and animator, co-founder of the Canadian animation studio Nelvana
• Clive Soley, Baron Soley (born 1939), British politician
• Clive A. Stace (born 1938), British botanist
• Clive Stafford Smith (born 1959), British attorney
• Clive Suares, Australian band member
• Clive Thompson (businessman) (born 1943), Deputy Chairman of Strategic Equity Capital
• Clive Thompson (journalist) (born 1968), Canadian freelance journalist, blogger and science and technology writer
• Clive Wearing (born 1938), British former musicologist, conductor, and pianist with severe amnesia
• Clive Williams (rugby union) (born 1948), Welsh rugby union player
• Clive Williams (professor) (born 1945), British-born former Australian Army Military Intelligence officer and academic
• Clive Wilmer (1945–2025), British poet
• Clive Zanda (1939–2022), Trinidad and Tobago extempo and kaisojazz musician

Surname

• Caroline Clive (1801–1873), English writer
• Colin Clive (1900–1937), English stage and screen actor
• Edward Clive (disambiguation)
  • E. E. Clive (1879–1940), Welsh stage actor and director
• Robert Clive (1725–1774), British officer and soldier of fortune who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, Commander-in-Chief of British India
• Robert Clive (1769–1833), MP for Ludlow, son of the above
• Robert Clive (1789–1854), MP for Ludlow and Shropshire South, nephew of the above and grandson of Lord Clive
• Robert Clive (diplomat) (1877–1948), diplomat, British Ambassador to Belgium

Places

• Clive, a village in Shropshire, England
• Clive, a small town in New Zealand
• Clive River, a small river in New Zealand

Fictional characters

• Clive, in Beyond the Black Stump (comic strip)
• Clive, in "Rose" (Doctor Who episode)
• Clive, a Garfield character
• Clive King, in the British medical drama, Casualty
• Clive Gibbons, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Clive Jones (Doctor Who), in the British TV series Doctor Who
• Clive Vickers, a character in Brotherhood of Mutants
• Clive Yorkin, enemy of the character Flash in DC Comics

See also

• Geoffrey de Clive (died 1119), Roman Catholic Bishop of Hereford
• Statue of Robert Clive, London