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Contemporary Notables of the name Clarke (post 1700) +

  • Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (1917-2008), British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: "A Space Odyssey" 14
  • Desmond M. Clarke (1942-2016), Irish author and professor of philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland
  • Thomas James Clarke (1858-1916), Irish nationalist and revolutionary
  • Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Irish poet and dramatist
  • Mary Patricia Clarke OAM FAHA (1926-2026), Australian writer, historian and journalist who wrote about 19th century women in Australia
  • John Clarke FRS (b. 1942), British physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, nicknamed "the godfather of superconducting electronics", co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025
  • Sir Brian Clarke Hon FRIBA CF (1953-2025), British painter, architectural artist, designer and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs, and collaborations with major figures in modern and contemporary architecture
  • Norm Clarke (1942-2025), American sportswriter and reporter, later known for his gossip column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal (1999-2016)
  • Mae Clarke (1910-1992), born Violet Mary Klotz, an American actress, best known for playing Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy
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  11. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  12. Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 2018, April 30). Emigrants to USA 1718 - 1759, Indentured servitude [PDF]. Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/emigration_america_1718_59_indentured_servitude.pdf
  13. Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 3rd May 2018). Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/emigration_ellis_island_1892_on.pdf
  14. Arthur Clarke. (Retrieved 2010, September 27) Arthur Clarke. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
  15. Commemoration Empress of Ireland 2014. (Retrieved 2014, June 17) . Retrieved from http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/listepsc1.html


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