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 retired politician
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Cleve Bryant
Cleve Bryant (March 27, 1947 – January 31, 2023) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Ohio University from 1985 to 1989. Bryant was later the Associate Athletics Director for Football Operations f ...
(1947-2023), American college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
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Cleve Cartmill
Cleve Cartmill (June 21, 1908 in Platteville, Wisconsin – February 11, 1964 in Orange County, California) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cle ...
(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 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 computing. He invented MATL ...
(born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist
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