# Clive

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