Claus

Given name

• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a German officer who, along with others, attempted to assassinate Hitler in 1944
• Claus von Amsberg, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg
• Claus von Bülow, British socialite accused of attempting to murder his wife, Sunny von Bülow
• Claus Clausen, three people of that name
• Claus Bech Jørgensen, Danish-born Faroese footballer
• Claus Jørgensen , Danish race walker
• Claus Larsen, three people of that name
• Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian former footballer
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser, British statistician
• Claus Nielsen, Danish former football striker
• Claus Norreen, Danish musician with the band Aqua, and record producer
• Claus Offe, political sociologist
• Claus Ogerman, German arranger, orchestrator, conductor and composer
• Claus Schilling, German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes
• Claus Sluter, Dutch sculptor
• Claus Spreckels, major industrialist in Hawai'i and California
• Claus Thomsen, Danish former footballer
• Claus Toksvig, Danish journalist, broadcaster and politician

  Surname

• Carl Friedrich Claus, German chemist
• Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, German zoologist
• Daniel Claus, British commissioner of Indian affairs and a Loyalist during the American Revolution
• Emile Claus, Belgian painter, inventor of the Luminism style of Impressionistic painting
• Hildrun Claus, German former athlete
• Hugo Claus, Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director
• Karl Ernst Claus or Carl Ernst Claus, Livonian chemist and naturalist, discoverer of the element ruthenium
• Roland Claus, German politician

  Fictional characters

• Santa Claus
• Mrs. Claus, Santa's wife
• Claus, a character and a protagonists twin in the Nintendo game Mother 3
• Claus, in the advertising campaign for Palm Centro