Claude ("lame" in Latin) is a given name for males. The name may refer to the following individuals:

• Claude Debussy, French composer
• Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter
• Claude Monet, French painter
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
• Claude Lorrain, French artist
• Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist
• Claude Demetrius, African-American songwriter
• Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer
• Claude Thomas Bourchier, English Lieutenant and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Claude Elwood Shannon, American electrical engineer and mathematician
• Claude Hulbert, British comic actor
• Claude Speed, fictional Grand Theft Auto character
• Claude, a fictional Beyblade character.
• Claude, a fictional Bleach character.
• Claudin de Sermisy, French Rennaissance composer