Clifton (given name)
Appearance
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Language(s) | Old English |
Meaning | Town by a cliff |
Other names | |
Derivative(s) | Cliff |
Related names | Clifford |
Clifton is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Clifton R. Breckinridge (1846–1932), American politician
- Clifton Chenier (1925–1987), American zydeco musician
- Clifton Collins Jr. (born 1970), American actor
- Clifton Davis (born 1945), American actor
- Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999), American radio and television personality
- Clifton Grima, Maltese politician
- Clifton A. Hall (1826–1913), a Rhode Island architect
- Clifton James (1921–2017), American actor
- Clifton Jones (born 1937), Jamaican actor
- Clifton J. Joy (1922–1994), Newfoundland physician and politician
- Clifton Leaf, American journalist, editor of Fortune magazine
- Clifton Maloney (1937–2009), American businessman
- Clifton Parker (1905–1989), English composer
- Clifton Sandvliet (born 1977), Surinamese retired footballer
- Clifton Sprague (1896–1955), World War II–era officer in the U.S. Navy
- Clifton Sunada (born 1971), American judoka
- C. Clifton Virts (1910–1985), American politician and lawyer from Maryland
- Clifton Webb (1889–1966), American actor
- Clifton Williams (1932–1967), NASA astronaut and USMC Major