Cleve (given name)

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

Cleve Benedict, American politician
Cleve Bryant, American college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
Cleve Cartmill, American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
Cleve Gray, American abstract expressionist painter
Cleve Jones, American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
Cleve Loney, American politician
Cleve Moler, American mathematician and computer scientist