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Claudia Kauffman

Claudia Kauffman is an American politician, a Democratic member of the Washington State Senate representing the 47th district, and a member of the Nez Perce tribe.

Claudia Ochoa Félix

Claudia Ochoa Félix (1987–2019), Mexican influencer known as La Emperatriz de los Ántrax and the Kim Kardashian of the narco, was reported to lead the Sinaloa Cartel's Los Ántrax, denied it, and died of bronchoaspiration in Culiacán in 2019.

Claudia Octavia

Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina, was Nero's first wife; divorced in 62 for sterility, banished to Pandateria, and executed on 9 June 62 CE.

Claudia Ordaz

Claudia Ordaz is an American Democratic politician in the Texas House of Representatives representing District 79 since 2023, after serving on the El Paso City Council.

Claudia Sheinbaum

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexican scientist and Morena politician, became Mexico's first female president on October 1, 2024 after winning nearly 60% of the vote; an energy engineer, IPCC lead author, and former Mexico City mayor continuing López Obrador's project.

Claudia Tenney

Claudia Tenney, Republican U.S. representative for New York's 24th District (formerly NY-22), lawyer and former state assembly member; won her 2020 House race by 109 votes after litigation, reelected in 2024.

Claudia van Bruggen

Claudia van Bruggen (born 1980) is a Dutch D66 politician and State Secretary for Justice and Security, responsible for the prison system, in the Jetten government.

Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay, American political scientist, 30th president of Harvard University (July 2023 to January 2, 2024), its first Black president; resigned after 185 days amid antisemitism-testimony backlash and plagiarism allegations; returned to Harvard faculty.

Claudio Alvarado

Claudio Alvarado is a Chilean politician serving since 2026 as Minister of the Interior and Government Spokesperson under President José Antonio Kast, after a four-decade career as deputy, senator, undersecretary, and mayor.

Claudio Barbaro

Claudio Barbaro is an Italian politician serving as Undersecretary of State for Environment and Energy Security in the Meloni government, previously president of the sports body Asi.

Claudio Borio

Claudio Borio is an economist who led the Bank for International Settlements' Monetary and Economic Department from 2013 to 2024 and developed the concept of the financial cycle.

Claudio Durigon

Claudio Durigon is an Italian League politician serving as Undersecretary of State for Labour and Social Policies, after posts in the Conte I and Draghi governments.

Cláudio Manuel da Costa

Cláudio Manuel da Costa (1729–1789) was a Brazilian poet, lawyer, and colonial magistrate of Vila Rica who died in prison in the 1789 Inconfidência Mineira.

Claudius

Claudius (10 BC–AD 54), Roman emperor 41–54, third Julio-Claudian; raised by the Praetorian Guard after Caligula's murder, annexed Britain in AD 43, adopted Nero, died by poisoning.

Claudius Gothicus

Claudius Gothicus, also known as Claudius II or Marcus Aurelius Claudius, was Roman emperor from 268 to 270, best known for his victory over the Goths at Naissus in 269.

Claudius Vermilye

Claudius I. Vermilye, Jr. (died June 22, 2018), American Episcopal priest defrocked after his 1977 conviction for sexually exploiting boys at Boys Farm, Inc. in Monteagle, Tennessee; appeal Vermilye v. State, 584 S.W.2d 226 (Tenn. 1979), affirmed a 25-to-40-year sentence.

Claus Harms

Claus Harms (1778–1855) was a German Lutheran pastor in Lunden and Kiel whose 95 theses of 1817, attacking rationalism and the Prussian Union, helped bring Neo-Lutheranism into being.

Claus Spreckels

Claus Spreckels, born Adolph Claus J. Spreckels, was a German-born American entrepreneur known as the sugar king, who built a vertically integrated sugar empire in Hawaii and California.

Claus von Bülow

Claus von Bülow (Claus Cecil Borberg, 1926–2019), Danish-born socialite; convicted 1982 of attempting to murder heiress wife Sunny by insulin injection, conviction reversed 1984, acquitted at 1985 retrial; subject of Reversal of Fortune.

Claus von Stauffenberg

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), German colonel and aristocrat who led the 20 July 1944 Hitler assassination plot (Operation Valkyrie), was wounded in Tunisia in 1943, and was executed in the Bendlerblock courtyard.

Clause

Clause (grammar): a grammatical unit with a predicate and an explicit or implied subject, expressing a proposition. Also called main/independent vs dependent/subordinate, finite vs nonfinite clauses; the basic unit forming sentences.

Clausula rebus sic stantibus

Clausula rebus sic stantibus, the doctrine of fundamentally changed circumstances, allows treaty termination (VCLT Article 62) and contractual adjustment as an exception to pacta sunt servanda, with Roman and medieval roots.

Clay Allison

Robert Clay Allison (1841-1887), "Wolf of the Washita," was a Confederate veteran, Texas-New Mexico rancher and gunfighter. Known for the Griego killing at Cimarron, the Las Animas dance-hall shootout, and death in a 1887 wagon accident near Pecos.

Clay Bennett (businessman)

Clay Bennett, born Clayton I. Bennett, is an Oklahoma City investor who bought the Seattle SuperSonics in 2006 and moved them to Oklahoma City as the Thunder.

Clay D. Land

Clay D. Land is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia since 2001, appointed by George W. Bush.

Clay family murders

Clay family murders: March 28, 1988 Nashville killings of Angela Clay and daughters Latoya and Lakeisha by Byron Lewis Black, Angela's boyfriend; he was sentenced to death and executed in 2025.

Clay Fuller

Clay Fuller, born 1981, is an American Republican politician and U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th Congressional District since April 2026, sworn in by Speaker Mike Johnson.

Clay Higgins

Clay Higgins, Republican U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 3rd district since 2017, House Freedom Caucus member, former Louisiana police officer and National Guard staff sergeant, sole no vote on the 2025 Epstein files release bill.

Clay Pell

Clay Pell (born 1981), American lawyer, Coast Guard officer, and Obama Education Department official; grandson of Senator Claiborne Pell and former husband of Michelle Kwan; finished third with 27 percent in the 2014 Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Clay Routledge

Clay Routledge is an American psychological scientist known for research on nostalgia, meaning in life, and existential psychology, now leading the Archbridge Institute's Human Flourishing Lab.