Clive is a name. People and fictional characters with the name include:
People
Given name
- Clive Allen (born 1961), English football player
- Clive Anderson (born 1952), British television, radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister
- Clive Barker (born 1952), English writer, film director and visual artist
- Clive Barker (artist, born 1940), British pop artist
- Clive Barker (soccer) (born 1944), South African coach
- Clive Barnes (1927–2008), English writer and critic, dance and theater critic for The New York Times
- Clive Bell (1881–1964), English art critic
- Clive Brook (1887–1974), British film actor
- Clive Burr (1957–2013), British musician, former drummer with Iron Maiden
- Clive Campbell (footballer), New Zealand footballer in the 1970s and early '80s
- Clive Campbell (born 1955), Jamaican-born DJ with the stage name DJ Kool Herc
- Clive Clark (golfer) (born 1945), English golfer
- Clive Clark (footballer) (1940–2014), English former footballer
- Clive Clarke (born 1980), Irish footballer
- Clive Coates (born 1941), British wine writer and Master of Wine
- Clive Cussler (1931-2020), American novelist and underwater explorer
- Clive Davis (born 1932), American record produccer
- Clive Evans (born 1957), English former footballer
- Clive Evans (fashion designer) (born 1933), London fashion designer of the 1960s, better known as 'Clive'
- Clive Hirschhorn (born 1940), South African writer and critic, longtime film and theater critic
- Clive James (1939–2019), Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
- Clive Jones (rugby), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1970s
- Clive Lewis (disambiguation)
- Clive Owen (born 1964), English actor
- Clive Soley, Baron Soley (born 1939), British politician
- Clive Smith (footballer, born 1923) (1923–1999), Australian rules footballerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Davis
- Clive A. Smith (born 1944), British director and animator, co-founder of the Canadian animation studio Nelvana
- Clive Stafford Smith (born 1959), British attorney
- Clive A. Stace (born 1938), British botanist
- Clive Strutt (born 1942), English composer
- Clive Thompson (businessman) (born 1943), Deputy Chairman of Strategic Equity Capital
- Clive Thompson (journalist) (born 1968), Canadian freelance journalist, blogger and science and technology writer
- Clive Williams (rugby union) (born 1948), Welsh rugby union player
- Clive Williams (professor) (born 1945), British-born former Australian Army Military Intelligence officer and academic
Surname
- Caroline Clive (1801–1873), English writer
- Colin Clive (1900–1937), English stage and screen actor
- Edward Clive (disambiguation)
- E. E. Clive (1879–1940), Welsh stage actor and director
- Robert Clive (1725–1774), British officer and soldier of fortune who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal, Commander-in-Chief of British India
- Robert Clive (1769–1833), MP for Ludlow, son of the above
- Robert Clive (1789–1854), MP for Ludlow and Shropshire South, nephew of the above and grandson of Lord Clive
- Robert Clive (diplomat) (1877–1948), diplomat, British Ambassador to Belgium
Fictional characters
- Clive, in Beyond the Black Stump (comic strip)
- Clive, in "Rose" (Doctor Who episode)
- Clive, a Garfield character
- Clive Gibbons, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Clive Jones (Doctor Who), in the British TV series Doctor Who
- Clive Vickers, a character in Brotherhood of Mutants
See also
- Geoffrey de Clive (died 1119), Roman Catholic Bishop of Hereford
- Statue of Robert Clive, London