Famous People with Name Clift

Robert John Clift            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Robert John Clift: He played club hockey for The Nottingham Hockey Club.

Peter Clift            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Peter Clift: a British marine geologist and geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific. He is currently Kilgour Professor of Geology at the University of Aberdeen, where he has been since 2004.Clift is a geologist who applies marine geophysical, geochemical and classical geological methods to understand the history of geological basins over the last 50 million years. In particular, he works on understanding the relationships between mountain building in the Himalaya and Tibet Plateau and the intensification of the Asian monsoon. Clift has worked on evolution the Indus River, which he dated to being older than 45 million years. He has proposed that the Indus captured the four major rivers of the Punjab region into its basin after around 5 million years ago. Prior to this time the Chenab,

Charmian Clift            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Charmian Clift: was an Australian writer and essayist during the mid 20th century. She was the second wife of Australian journalist George Johnston.Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales. She married Johnston in 1947. They had three children, the eldest of which was the poet Martin Johnston. After Clift and Johnston's collaboration, "High Valley" (1949), won them recognition as writers, they left Australia with their young family, working in London before relocating to the Greek Islands to try living by the pen. Johnston returned to Australia to receive the accolades of his Miles Franklin Award Winner, "My Brother Jack". Clift moved back to Sydney with their children in 1964, after which her novels "Mermaid Singing", "Peel Me a Lotus," and "Honour's Mimic" became successes. She was also well-known for her essays in Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, which included "Images in Aspic" and "The World of Charmian Clift." In the meantime, Clift and Johnston's marriage was disintegrating under the pressures of their drinking habits and the problems their children had settling into life in Sydney.

Patrick Bernard Clift            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Patrick Bernard Clift: was a Zimbabwean educated at St.George's College Harare and a first class cricketer for Leicestershire County Cricket Club. He was a right arm medium bowler and handy right-handed batsman. Clift died in South Africa after a battle with bone marrow cancer,

Joseph Wales Clift            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Wales Clift: was a U.S. Representative from Georgia. He entered the Union Army and was acting surgeon from July 13, 1862, to August 7, 1865. He served in the Army of the Potomac until November 18, 1866. Practiced medicine in Savannah, Georgia. He was appointed registr