Born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, Clement XIV was the pope from 1769-1774. He authored the brief Dominus ac Redemptor (1773), which suppressed the Society of the Jesuits.

Born Giulio de'Medici, Clement VII's eleven years of papal authority were characterized by religious, military, and political conflict in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.

The eponymous heroine of a novel by Mme. de Scudéry.

English composer, violinist, and member of the king's band from 1692 to 1702. Clayton wrote the music for Joseph Addison's libretto to create their opera Rosamond (1707).

Uncle to the title character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet. Claudius kills the king, Hamlet's father, and ascends to the throne.

Heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa (1747-9).

1st Earl of Clarendon and Baron Hyde of Hindon, Edward Hyde was an English aristocrat and politician known by his noble title of "Lord Cornbury." Hyde became a prominent political figure at the start of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when Hyde's army shifted their loyalty from the Catholic King James II to his Protestant challenger William of Orange.

An English courtier, poet, and sheriff of Herefordshire, believed to be the son of Sir John Clanvowe.

An English diplomat, soldier and poet. He was born to a Marcher family originally of Welsh extraction. He himself was probably of mixed Anglo-Welsh origin. He held lands that lay in the present-day Radnorshire district of Powys and in Herefordshire. He was a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He was one of the "Lollard knights" (with supposedly heretical views) at the court of King Richard II. Clanvowe's best-known work was The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a 14th-century debate poem influenced by Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls.

A prominent French mathematician, astronomer, and translator.