Clinton (given name)

Clinton

Gender	Male
Origin
Language(s)	Old English
Meaning	"Town on the River Glyme" or "fenced settlement"
Other names
Derivative(s)	Clint

Clinton is a given name. It may be shortened informally to Clint. Notable people with the name include:

• Clinton Avery (born 1987), New Zealand racing cyclist
• Clinton Babbitt (1831–1907), American politician from Wisconsin
• Clinton Bennett (born 1955), British-American scholar of religions
• Clinton Black (1894–1963), American football guard
• Clinton Caldwell Boone (1872–1939), African-American minister, dentist and medical missionary
• Clinton D. Boyd (1884–1950), American attorney, judge and politician
• Clinton Browning (born 1962), Australian footballer
• Clinton Burrell (born 1956), American football defensive back
• Clinton Campbell, American construction worker
• Clinton Cerejo, Indian music producer and singer
• Clinton Collymore, Guyana politician
• Clinton Davis (born 1965), American track athlete
• Clinton Day (1847–1916), American architect
• Sir Clinton Driffield, a fictional British detective
• Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (born 1930), better known as Clint Eastwood, American film actor and director
• Clinton B. Fisk (1828–1890), American military officer and politician
• Clinton Gutherson (born 1994), Australian rugby league player
• Clinton Jones (priest) (1916–2006), American Episcopal priest and gay rights activist
• Clinton Kane (born 1998/1999), Australian singer, songwriter, and musician
• Clinton Kelly (disambiguation), multiple people
• Clinton McCullough (1844–1895), American politician and lawyer from Maryland
• Clinton Morrison (born 1979), English-Irish footballer
• Clinton Portis (born 1981), American football running back
• Clinton Briggs Ripley (1840s–1920s), American architect
• Clinton Solomon (born 1983), American football wide receiver
• Clinton Warrington Stanley (1830–1884), Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
• Clinton Stringfellow (1905–1959), New Zealand rugby union player
• Clinton D. Vernon (1907–1987), American politician from Utah
• Clinton Watson (1888–1958), American politician from Missouri
• Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 1941), birth name of English ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins

For people with the surname, see Clinton. For places named Clinton, see Clinton (disambiguation).