Cleve (given name) explained

Cleve is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Cleve Benedict (born 1935), American politician
• Cleve Bryant (1947–2023), American college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
• Cleve Cartmill (1908–1964), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
• Cleve Gray (1918–2004), American abstract expressionist painter
• Cleve Jones (born 1954), American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
• Cleve Loney (1950–2020), American politician
• Cleve Moler (born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist