Clapp

Clapp may refer to:

People named Clapp or Clap:

  • Clapp (surname), predominantly found in England and the United States
  • Allen Clapp, an American rock singer in the band, The Orange Peels
  • Althea Louise Brough Clapp, an American tennis player
  • Asa Clapp, an American politician (d.1891)
  • Austin Clapp, an American swimmer and water polo player
  • Benjamin Clapp, American musician
  • Cameron Clapp, an American disabled athlete and actor
  • Cornelia Clapp, an American zoologist (d. 1934)
  • Dominic Clapp, an English cricketer
  • George Hubbard Clapp, an American pioneer in the aluminium industry (d. 1949)
  • Gordon Clapp, an American actor
  • Harold Winthrop Clapp, Australian transport administrator (d. 1952)
  • James Kilton Clapp, (1897–1965) American electrical engineer and inventor
  • John Clapp (artist), a professor and children's book illustrator
  • John Clapp (baseball), a professional baseball player and manager (d. 1904)
  • Louise Clapp, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
  • Margaret Clapp, an American scholar and educator (d. 1974)
  • Moses E. Clapp, an American Senator from Minnesota (d. 1929)
  • Nicholas Clapp, an American writer and film-maker
  • Philip Greeley Clapp, an American musician and composer (d. 1954)
  • Priscilla Clapp, an American diplomat
  • Richard Clapp, a Canadian baseball player
  • Robert Edwin Clapp, a former Canadian physician and politician
  • Susannah Clapp (born 1949), a British theatre critic, writer and book editor
  • Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain
  • Verner Clapp, an American librarian and writer (d. 1972)
  • George Clapp Vaillant, an American anthropologist (d. 1945)
  • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a.k.a. "Dame Shirley", an American writer (d. 1906)

Notable places named Clapp or Clap:

  • William Clapp House, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, built in 1806
  • Captain Lemuel Clap House, also in Dorchester, MA, built in 1767

Miscellaneous usage

  • Clapp oscillator, an oscillator invented in 1948 by James K. Clapp
See also
  • Clap (disambiguation)
  • Klapp