Famous People with Name Claude

Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey, III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey, III: is an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer. He has earned wide respect in the industry as a man of great integrity.Shug McGaughey began working as a trainer in 1979 and in his career to date has won more than 240 graded stakes races. In 1986 he got his big break when Ogden Phipps hired him to train his stable of horses. In 1988, McGaughey won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in the United States.

Claude André Dubois            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude André Dubois: a Canadian singer-songwriter.Dubois was an early star of the francophone musical Starmania. He was a vocalist in the Canadian famine relief song "Tears Are Not Enough" and was nominated Most Promising Male Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1985.More recently

Claude Gauthier            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude Gauthier: a Quebec singer-songwriter and actor.Gauthier grew up in a family that enjoyed and performed music. His father sang Sundays in the Catholic Mass and his mother played piano. Listening to the classic French singers of the time on radio, such as Edith Piaf

Claude McKenzie            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude McKenzie: a Canadian singer-songwriter. An Innu from Maliotenam, he was half of the popular folk music duo Kashtin, the most commercially successful musical group in First Nations history.He released his debut solo album, Innu Town, in 1997. Two years later, he was

Claude "Butch" Harmon, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude "Butch" Harmon, Jr.: is one of the world's best known golf instructors. He is the son of 1948 Masters Tournament champion Claude Harmon, Sr. and has been in the golf industry since 1965.Harmon attended the University of Houston, and served in the U.S. Army for three years, se

Georges Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: Parsi

Georges Claude: was the first to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas (circa 1902) to create a lamp. Inspired in part by Daniel McFarlan Moore's invention, Moore's Lamp, Paris-born Claude invented the neon lamp by passing an electric current through inert gases, making them glow very brightly.The first man to display neon lighting was Nikola Tesla at the World Columbian Exposition, international Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. His innovations in this type of light emission were not regularly patented.[1][2]In 1902 Georges Claude and businessman Paul Delorme founded L'Air Liquide S.A. (Air Liquide) based on a method to liquify air that enabled large scale production of oxygen. Air Liquide presently exists as a large multinational corporation headquartered in Paris, France.

Jean Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean Claude: was a French Protestant divine.He was born at La Sauvetat-du-Dropt near Agen. After studying at Montauban, Jean Claude entered the ministry in 1645. For eight years he was professor of theology in the Protestant college of Nîmes; but in 1661, having succe

Mathieu Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Mathieu Claude: is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Bbox Bouygues Telecom.

Jacques Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jacques Claude: was a French politician before, during, and after the French Revolution. His son Auguste Arthur Beugnot was an historian and scholar.

Florimond Claude            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Florimond Claude: was an Austrian diplomat. He was the son of Antoine, comte de Mercy-Argenteau, and entered the diplomatic service of Austria going to Paris in the train of Reichsfürst Kaunitz. He became Austrian minister at Turin, at St Petersburg, and in 1766 at Paris,