Cleve (given name)

Cleve is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
 * Cleve Benedict (born 1935), American politician
 * Cleve Bryant (1947–2023), American college football quarterback, athletics administrator and former head coach at Ohio University
 * Cleve Cartmill (1908–1964), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best remembered for a short story investigated by the FBI
 * Cleve Gray (1918–2004), American abstract expressionist painter
 * Cleve Jones (born 1954), American AIDS and LGBT rights activist
 * Cleve Loney (1950–2020), American politician
 * Cleve Moler (born 1939), American mathematician and computer scientist