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

• Claud Allister (1888–1970), English actor
• Claud Beelman (1883–1963), American architect
• Claud Irvine Boswell (1742–1824), Scottish judge
• Claud Thomas Bourchier (1831–1877), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Claud E. Cleeton (1907–1997), physicist notable for his work on the microwave spectroscopy of ammonia
• Claud Cockburn (1904–1981), radical English journalist controversial for communist sympathies
• Claud Derrick, former Major League Baseball shortstop
• Claud Lovat Fraser (1890–1921), English Artist, designer and author
• Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley (1543–1621), Scottish politician
• Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane (1606–1638), the third son of James Hamilton
• Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, PC (1659–1691), Scottish and Irish peer and Jacobite
• Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1872–1950), British Conservative Party politician
• Alfred Claud Hollis (1874–1961), British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar (1923–1929); Governor of Trinidad and Tobago (1930–1936)
• Claud Jacob GCB GCSI KCMG (1863–1948), British Army officer who served in the First World War
• Claud Ashton Jones (1885–1948), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient
• Claud Mintz, American pop musician
• Claud Morris (1920–2000), British newspaper owner who sought to make peace between Arabs and Israelis
• Claud O'Donnell (1886–1953), Australian rugby union and rugby league player and represented his country at both sports
• Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (1911–1994), English architect, 4th Baron Phillimore
• Claud Raymond VC (1923–1945), British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster (1869–1956), British barrister, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
• Claud Andrew Montagu Douglas Scott, DSO (1906–1971), Colonel in the Irish Guards
• Claud Severn (Chinese Translated Name: 施勳), British colonial administrator
• Claud Eustace Teal, fictional character in a series of stories by Leslie Charteris entitled The Saint, starting in 1929
• Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881–1941), British ornithologist
• Claud Thomas Thellusson Wood, Bishop in the mid part of the Twentieth century
• Claud Woolley (1886–1962), English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire
• Lord Claud Hamilton (1787–1808) (1787–1808), British nobleman and politician
• Lord Claud Hamilton (1813–1884) PC (1813–1884), British Conservative politician
• Lord Claud Hamilton (1843–1925) (1843–1925), British Member of Parliament (MP)
• Lord Claud Hamilton (1889–1975), GCVO, CMG, DSO (1889–1975), British soldier and courtier

See also

• Claud, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Elmore County, Alabama
• Claud Butler, brand of cycle currently produced by Falcon Cycles
• Claud Elliott Lake Provincial Park, provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, on northern Vancouver Island
  • Claud Elliott Creek Ecological Reserve, British Columbia
• Claud Jones-class destroyer escort, a class of destroyer escorts built for the US Navy in the late 1950s
• GER 'Claud Hamilton' (LNER Class D14/D15/D16), class of 4-4-0 steam locomotive designed by James Holden
• Saint-Claud, commune in the Charente department in southwestern France
• USS Claud Jones (DE-1033), lead ship of the Claud Jones-class destroyer escorts, launched 27 May 1958
• Claude (disambiguation)