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Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado (1933-2014), Italian conductor; music director of La Scala, LSO, Vienna State Opera, and Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor 1989-2002; founded Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

Claudio Cataño

Claudio Cataño, Colombian actor, director and screenwriter; grandson of poet Mario Rivero; plays Colonel Aureliano Buendía in Netflix's Cien años de soledad and won the 2025 Platino Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries.

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, born in Cremona in 1567, who carried music from the Renaissance into the Baroque as the first great opera composer.

Claudio Sanchez

Claudio Sanchez is the American singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Coheed and Cambria and creator of The Amory Wars sci-fi saga spanning albums, comics, and the novel Year of the Black Rainbow.

Claus Sluter

Claus Sluter was a Netherlandish sculptor, court sculptor to Duke Philip the Bold in Dijon, best known for the Well of Moses and the tomb of Philip the Bold.

Clave (rhythm)

Clave is the two-bar rhythmic framework of Afro-Cuban son, rumba, and salsa, with son and rumba forms in 3-2 and 2-3 directions, built on the 3-3-2 tresillo cell and spread worldwide through Latin, jazz, and pop music.

Clavichord

The clavichord (German: Clavichord, Klavichord) is a small, quiet European stringed keyboard instrument, the earliest key-hammered type, in which brass tangents strike and press the strings. Known from the early 15th century, fretted and unfretted types, with the unique Bebung vibrato; displaced by the piano after 1800.

Clavicular (influencer)

Clavicular is the online handle of Braden Eric Peters, an American looksmaxxing streamer on Kick and TikTok known for hourslong IRL looks-rating streams; charged with rape in September 2026, he pleaded not guilty.

Clavinet

Clavinet: electromechanical keyboard by Hohner, designed by Ernst Zacharias, introduced 1964; electrically amplified clavichord with hammer-struck strings and magnetic pickups; D6 (1971) is the iconic 60-key model heard on Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".

Clavinova

Clavinova is Yamaha's line of digital pianos, launched in 1983 with the YP-40 and now split into CLP, CSP, and CVP series, using CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial samples, VRM resonance modeling, and GrandTouch wooden key actions.

Clawfinger

Clawfinger, Swedish-Norwegian rap-metal band formed 1990 in Stockholm, known for Deaf Dumb Blind (1993), the anti-racist single "Nigger", and the 2026 comeback album Before We All Die; not to be confused with other uses of the name.

Claws (TV series)

Claws is an American TNT comedy-drama (2017–2022, four seasons) created by Eliot Laurence, starring Niecy Nash as Florida nail salon owner Desna Simms, whose manicurists launder money for the Dixie Mafia.

Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken (Clayton Holmes Grissom), American pop singer born 1978 in Raleigh, North Carolina; American Idol season 2 runner-up (2003) whose debut single "This Is the Night" and album Measure of a Man both hit No. 1, later a Broadway performer, UNICEF ambassador, and two-time congressional candidate.

Clay Davis

Clay Davis (R. Clayton Davis) is the fictional corrupt Maryland state senator in HBO's The Wire, played by Isiah Whitlock Jr. in 25 episodes across five seasons, famous for the catchphrase "sheee-it" and acquitted of corruption in season five.

Clay Jensen

Clay Jensen is the male protagonist and narrator of Jay Asher's 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why and of Netflix's four-season adaptation, played by Dylan Minnette, ninth on Hannah Baker's tapes.

Clay Morrow

Clay Morrow (Clarence 'Clay' Morrow) is the SAMCRO president and Jax Teller's stepfather in FX's Sons of Anarchy, played by Ron Perlman; a First 9 member ousted in season 4 and killed by Jax in season 6.

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an American technology writer and NYU professor, author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus, and NYU's vice provost for AI in education.

Clay Walker

Clay Walker (Ernest Clayton Walker Jr., born 1969, Beaumont, Texas) is an American country singer whose 1993 debut produced consecutive No. 1 hits; he has charted over 30 singles, 11 No. 1s, four platinum albums, and founded Band Against MS after his 1996 multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

Clayface

Clayface (Basil Karlo, Matt Hagen) is a shapeshifting DC Comics Batman villain first appearing in Detective Comics #40 (1940); multiple characters hold the mantle, and a 2026 DC Studios horror film stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen.

Clayface (film)

Clayface is a 2026 American body horror film directed by James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries as an actor whose experimental treatment turns him into living clay.

Claymore (クレイモア) (manga)

Claymore (クレイモア, Kureimoa) is a dark fantasy manga by Norihiro Yagi, serialized in Monthly Shonen Jump then Jump Square 2001–2014, 27 volumes, about half-Yoma warrior Clare hunting Yoma; adapted into a 2007 26-episode Madhouse anime.

Clayne Crawford

Clayne Crawford (born Joseph Crawford, 1978, Clay, Alabama) is an American actor, producer, and director known for Martin Riggs in Fox's Lethal Weapon (2016-2018), Ted Talbot Jr. in Rectify, and films like A Walk to Remember and The Killing of Two Lovers.

Clayton Echard

Clayton Echard (born 1993) is an American reality TV personality, former Missouri football walk-on and Stryker sales rep, lead of The Bachelor season 26 (2022), later Perfect Match season 3, and target of a fake pregnancy scam whose accuser pleaded guilty.

Clayton Moore

Clayton Moore (Jack Carlton Moore, 1914-1999), American actor, television's Lone Ranger on ABC 1949-1957 with Jay Silverheels; later barred from wearing the mask in 1979, reinstated 1985.

Clazziquai Project

Clazziquai Project (클래지콰이) is a South Korean electronic and acid-jazz music project formed by producer DJ Clazzi in 2001, with vocalists Alex and Horan, known for "Be My Love" in the 2005 drama My Lovely Samsoon.

CLC (씨엘씨) (group)

CLC (씨엘씨, CrystaL Clear) was a South Korean girl group under Cube Entertainment, debuting March 19, 2015 as five members and expanding to seven in 2016; known for the Hobgoblin girl-crush turn, first win with "No", disbandment June 2022, and a seven-member 2026 reunion.

Cle Shaheed Sloan

Cle Shaheed Sloan, also Cle "Bone" Sloan (born 1969, Los Angeles), American actor, director, and producer; directed Bastards of the Party (2005) on the Bloods and Crips and played Bone in Training Day.

Clea DuVall

Clea DuVall, American actress, writer, and director born 1977 in Los Angeles; known for But I'm a Cheerleader, Carnivàle, Veep, and Argo, and for directing the 2020 queer holiday rom-com Happiest Season and the series High School.

Clean Bandit

Clean Bandit, British electronic group formed 2008 at Cambridge, fusing classical strings with dance pop. Members Chatto, J. Patterson, L. Patterson; hits Rather Be, Rockabye, Symphony, Solo; Grammy 2015.

Clean girl aesthetic

The clean girl aesthetic is a minimalist beauty, fashion, and lifestyle trend popularized on TikTok in late 2021, defined by dewy skin, no-makeup makeup, slicked-back hair, gold hoops, and neutral clothing, later tied to Hailey Bieber's Rhode and criticized for exclusivity.