List of Famous people named Clair

Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Clair Walter Burgener was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973-1983.

Clair Engle was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from California. He is best remembered for participating in the vote breaking the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the US Senate while partially paralyzed and unable to speak, shortly before his death from a brain tumor.

Clair Maxwell (1890–1957) was a 20th-century American magazine publisher.