Cleve is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Cleve Benedict
Cleveland Keith Benedict (born March 21, 1935) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served one term in the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 1981 to 1983.
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(born 1935), American politician
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Cleve Bryant (1947–2023), American college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
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Cleve Cartmill (1908–1964), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
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Cleve Gray (1918–2004), American abstract expressionist painter
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Cleve Jones
Cleve Jones (born October 11, 1954) is an American AIDS and LGBT rights activist. He conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which has become, at 54 tons, the world's largest piece of community folk art as of 2020. In 1983 at the onset ...
(born 1954), American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
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Cleve Loney (1950–2020), American politician
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Cleve Moler
Cleve Barry Moler (born August 17, 1939) is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical compu ...
(born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist
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