Arts and Music

• Clara Peeters (born 1594, died 1657)

  Flemish painter.

  • Painted Still Life (see list of Artists of the 17th & 18th Centuries)
• Clara Wieck Schumann (born 1819, died 1896)

  German pianist, teacher and composer. Wife of composer Robert Schumann.

  • Composer of piano and choral works; noted interpreter of the works of Chopin (see list of Romantic Composers)

Leadership

• Clara Barton (born 1821, died 1912)

  American educator. Founded the American Red Cross in 1882.

  • President of the American Red Cross, 1882-1904 (see list of Noted Social Reformers and Educators)
• Clara G. McMillan (born 1894, died 1976)

  American politician.

  • Representative, D-South Carolina, 1940-41 (see list of Women in the House of Representatives)

Miscellaneous

• Clara Barton (born 1821, died 1912)

  American educator. Founded the American Red Cross in 1882.

  • Member of National Women''s Hall of Fame (see list of National Women's Hall of Fame Members)

Stage and Screen

• Clara Bow (born 1905, died 1965)

  American silent-film actress known as ''The It Girl.''

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Aunt Clara

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Marion Lorne (see list of Characters on ''Bewitched'')
• Clara Hudson

  Fictional character.

  • Character on the soap opera ''''Another World'''' (see list of Characters on ''Another World'')
• Clara Edwards Johnson

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Hope Summers (see list of Characters on ''The Andy Griffith Show'')
• Clara Thornhill

  Fictional character.

  • Played by Jessie Royce Landis (see list of Character from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest)
• Clara Kimball Young
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• Clara

  Fictional character

  • The matriarch blessed from birth with mysterious powers in Isabel Allende''s novel, The House of the Spirits (see list of Characters from the Classics)
  • Character in Porgy by Dubose Heyward (see list of Characters in Literature of the American South)