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Claire Temple
Claire Temple, Marvel Comics nurse and Luke Cage ally created by Goodwin and Tuska (Hero for Hire #2, 1972); Rosario Dawson plays a Temple/Night Nurse amalgam in the Netflix Marvel shows.
Claire Temple (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Claire Temple, MCU nurse played by Rosario Dawson; conflation of comics' Claire Temple and Night Nurse; connective figure of Netflix's Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders; cut cameo in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor (Claire Wemlinger, 1909 or 1910–2000), American Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress, Queen of Film Noir, known for Stagecoach, Dead End, and Key Largo, later namesake of UC Irvine's arts school.
Claire Underwood
Claire Hale Underwood, played by Robin Wright, is the co-protagonist of Netflix's House of Cards (2013–2018): political wife, vice president, and the show's first woman president, a Macbeth-like antiheroine.
Claire van der Boom
Claire van der Boom (born 1983, Broome, Western Australia) is an Australian actress of Dutch descent, NIDA graduate 2005, Silver Logie winner for Sisters of War, known for The Square, The Pacific, and Hawaii Five-0.
Claire van Kampen
Claire van Kampen (1953-2025), British composer, playwright, and director; founding Director of Theatre Music at Shakespeare's Globe and wife of Mark Rylance; wrote Farinelli and the King, a Tony-nominated play.
Claire Zeisler
Claire Zeisler (Claire Block, 1903–1991) was an American fiber artist and collector in Chicago known for free-standing, off-loom knotted and wrapped fiber sculptures such as Coil Series III—A Celebration, which helped elevate fiber art to fine art.
Claire's
Claire's, also Claire's Stores, Inc., is an American accessories and jewelry retailer for girls and tweens, famous for ear piercing (131 million piercings). Founded 1961 as a wig retailer; two Chapter 11 bankruptcies (2018, 2025); now owned by Ames Watson with about 900 North American stores; UK and Ireland standalone stores closed in 2026.
Clairo
Clairo (Claire Cottrill, born 1998) is an American bedroom-pop and indie singer-songwriter from Massachusetts whose 2017 viral song "Pretty Girl" led to the albums Immunity, Sling, and the Grammy-nominated Charm.
Clamp (manga artists)
CLAMP (クランプ) is the all-female four-member Japanese manga collective of Satsuki Igarashi, Nanase Ohkawa, Nekoi, and Mokona; 1989 RG Veda debut, over 100 million copies sold, creators of Cardcaptor Sakura and xxxHOLiC.
Clams Casino (musician)
Clams Casino, real name Michael Volpe (born 1987, Nutley, New Jersey), is an American producer whose stretched-vocal-sample beats for Lil B and A$AP Rocky defined cloud rap; debut album 32 Levels (2016), Moon Trip Radio (2019).
Clan Celentano
Clan Celentano is an Italian record label founded by singer Adriano Celentano in Milan, registered in 1961, Italy's first artist-owned label and its longest-lived independent, distributed by Universal Music since 2010.
Clan McDuck
Clan McDuck, the fictional Scottish clan of Disney's Scrooge McDuck, created by Carl Barks in 1947 and expanded by Don Rosa's Life and Times, Duck Family Tree, and Castle McDuck stories.
CLAN QUEEN
CLAN QUEEN (クランクイーン) is a three-piece Japanese rock band formed in 2022, whose single 踊楽園 went viral in 2023 and which moved to Sony Music Labels in 2026.
Clancy (album)
Clancy is the seventh studio album by American band Twenty One Pilots, released on May 24, 2024, and presented as the final chapter of the conceptual story begun with Blurryface.
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown (Clarence John Brown III, born 1959, Urbana, Ohio) is an American actor and voice actor known for the Kurgan in Highlander, Captain Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, Lex Luthor, and 25 years as Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Clancy of the Overflow
Clancy of the Overflow is an 1889 bush ballad by Banjo Paterson contrasting a city clerk's dingy office with a drover's freedom on the plains.
Clangers
Clangers is a British stop-motion children's series by Smallfilms (Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin), first aired on BBC1 in 1969, about pink knitted moon-dwelling creatures who speak in whistles; revived on CBeebies in 2015 narrated by Michael Palin.
Clannad
Clannad (Irish band, from "Clann As Dobhar", family from Dore): family folk group formed 1970 in Gweedore, Donegal; famed for "Theme from Harry's Game", Robin of Sherwood's Legend, and a 1999 Grammy; distinct from the Key visual novel of the same name.
Clans of Intrigue
Clans of Intrigue (楚留香, Chu Liuxiang), 1977 Shaw Brothers wuxia mystery directed by Chor Yuen, written by Ni Kuang from Gu Long, starring Ti Lung as the framed thief-swordsman Chu Liuxiang; a top-five 1977 Hong Kong hit with sequels.
Clapperboard
Clapperboard, also called slate or clapboard: board with hinged sticks held before the camera each take to label scene, take, and roll and to sync picture with separately recorded sound; invented in the 1920s, credited to FW Thring.
Clapping
Clapping, or applause, is striking the palms together to signal approval, praise, or support. Covers its definition, ancient Greek and Roman history, the claque, synchronization physics, chimpanzee clapping, and concert etiquette.
Clara (singer)
Clara (Clara Soccini, born 1999, Varese) is an Italian pop singer and actress, Crazy J in Mare Fuori, Sanremo Giovani 2023 winner, Sanremo 2024-2025 contestant, debut album PRIMO (2024, gold).
Clara Blandick
Clara Blandick, born Clara Blanchard Dickey, was an American character actress of stage and screen whose five-decade career included Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Clara Bow
Clara Bow (1905-1965), American silent film star and the original "It Girl" from the 1927 film It, also starred in Wings, the first Best Picture winner; her voice did not end her career, a common myth.
Clara Clemens
Clara Langdon Clemens (1874-1962), Mark Twain's second daughter and only surviving child, contralto singer, wife of conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, sole heir who controlled and suppressed Twain's unpublished works until Letters from the Earth (1962).
Clara Cuvé
Clara Cuvé is a German techno DJ and producer, born in Munich and based in Berlin, who co-founded the SESH party series and label with MCR-T.
Clara La San
Clara La San (Rosemary Claire Louise Francis) is a Manchester-based English R&B/bedroom pop singer-producer; 2014 "Let You Go", viral 2023 "In This Darkness", 2024 debut album Made Mistakes on her CLS Music label.
Clara Lago
Clara Lago (Clara Lago Grau, born 1990, Madrid) is a Spanish actress known for El viaje de Carol, Ocho apellidos vascos, and Netflix's Clanes; Goya-nominated child actress turned box-office record holder.
Clara Lee
Clara Lee (born Lee Sung-min, 李成敏, 1986, Bern, Switzerland) is a Korean-British actress whose 2013 baseball first pitch made her famous in Korea; she later built a Chinese film career, including Some Like It Hot and The Wandering Earth II, and divorced Samuel Hwang in 2025.