Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.

Susan Cleaver
English actress
Susan Cleaveris an English actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Eileen Grimshaw on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she played from 2000 to 2025. In 2024 Cleaver became a p...

John Cleese
English actor
John Marwood Cleeseis an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a s...

Charlie Clements
English actor
Charlie Clementsis an English actor known for the role of Bradley Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from January 2006 to February 2010. He has won several soap and magazine awards for his perf...

Christopher Clenshaw
English television producer
Christopher "Chris" Clenshawis anEnglish television producer, known for serving as the executive producer of the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 2022 and 2025. EastEnders In July 2015, Clenshaw join...

James Spencer Cleverly
Minister of State for Middle East and North Africa
James Spencer Cleverly(born 4 September 1969) is a British Conservative politician and Territorial Army officer who served as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot from 2019 to 20...

James Cleverly
British politician
James Spencer Cleverlyis a British politician and Army Reserve officer serving as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2022. He has demonstrated that honest, inte...

Kevin Clifton
English professional dancer and actor
Kevin James Cliftonis an English professional dancer and actor who was a professional dancer on the BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing, having previously worked as an assistant choreographer. He has ...

Geoffrey Robert Clifton-brown
Politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for The Cotswolds
Sir Geoffrey Robert Clifton-BrownFRICS (born 23 March 1953) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for The Cotswolds. He also serves as Vice-President of the Alliance of Euro...

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton
67th United States Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, in full Hillary Rodham Clinton, née Hillary Diane Rodham, (born October 26, 1947, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator (2001–09) and s...

Amal Clooney
Lebanese-born British barrister
Amal Clooneyis a Lebanese-born British barrister. Notable clients of hers include former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minist...

George Clooney
American actor and filmmaker
George Timothy Clooneyis an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. Clooney h...

Angus Cloud
American actor
Conor Angus Cloud Hickeywas an American actor. He was best known for his role as Fezco in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–2022), and had roles in the films North Hollywood (2021), The Line (2023),...

Kurt Cobain
American singer, songwriter and artist
Kurt Donald Cobainwas an American singer, songwriter and artist. He was the guitarist, lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-esta...

John Cocker
English singer
John Robert "Joe" Cockerwas an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements. Most of his best known singles were covers of s...

Jarvis Cocker
English singer and musician
Jarvis Branson Cockeris an English singer, songwriter and broadcaster, best known as the founder and frontman of the band Pulp and a defining voice of the Britpop era. Cocker formed Pulp while still a...

John Cocks
American film critic and screenwriter
John C. "Jay" Cocks, Jr.is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before shifting t...

Ruth Codd
Irish actress
Ruth Coddis an Irish actress. She is best known for starring as Anya in Netflix mystery thriller series The Midnight Club (2022) and Juno Usher in the Netflix horror miniseries The Fall of the House o...

Joseph Coelho
British poet and author
Joseph Coelhois a British poet and children's book author who was elected Children's Laureate in 2022. Career Coelho started performing poetry with performance poetry organisation Apples and Snakes in...

Thérèse Anne Coffey
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Dr Thérèse Anne Coffey(born 18 November 1971) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, she has served as Member of Pa...

Andrew Cohen
TV host
Andrew Joseph Cohenis an American radio and television talk show host, producer, and writer. Cohen is the host and executive producer of Bravo's late night talk show, Watch What Happens Live! He also ...