Famous People with Name Claude

Claude Elwood Shannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude Elwood Shannon: an American electrical engineer and mathematician, was "the father of information theory".Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. It has been claimed that this was the most important master's thesis of all time.

Claude Jutra            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude Jutra: was a Quebec actor, film director and writer. The Prix Jutra are named in his honor because of his importance in Quebec cinema history.Claude Jutra was born in Montreal, Quebec and studied to be a doctor before turning to his first love, the cinema. In 1954 he went to work at the National Film Board of Canada where he trained in all facets of filmmaking. In 1958 he went to France to work with François Truffaut and Jean Rouch.

Claude Frizzel Bloodgood            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Claude Frizzel Bloodgood: was a controversial American chess player. As a young man, he got into trouble with the law, and was arrested several times. He was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering his mother, although this sentence was later commuted. While in prison, he remained a very active chess player, playing a large number of correspondence games and rated games with other inmates. Over time, he achieved a very high ranking in the United States Chess Federation (USCF). Some allege he accomplished this by manipulating the ratings system in use at the time.

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

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,