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| City and Port of Kleve, Germany circa 1895, public domain |
The name VanCleave (or Van Cleave) is an Americanized version of the Dutch name Van Cleve. Other ways to spell the name include Cleve, VanCleve, Van Cleef, or Van Kleef. The name is a reference to a person from the city of Cleves (Kleve in German) located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located just on the border between Germany and the Netherlands. The city Cleves is the capitol to the district of Cleves. The origin of the name is likely from the Middle Dutch word clef, or cliff in modern English.
Oddly enough the dialect of Dutch spoken in that region is called Cleverlander, which sounds awfully close to the U.S. city of Cleveland. Apparently, the city of Cleveland was named after some fella named Moses Cleaveland. I'm sure there's still a tiny connection there, right?
Notable VanCleave related names include...
- Aaron Van Cleave (born 1987) U.S./Canadian pair skater
- Anna Van Kleef (1515-1557) Queen of England
- Astrid Cleve (1875–1968), Swedish biologist, geologist, chemist and researcher, first woman in Sweden to obtain a doctorate in science
- Bastian Clevé (born 1950), German film director
- Benjamin Van Cleve (1773–1821), a pioneer settler of Dayton, Ohio
- Cornelius van Cleve (1520–1567), painter
- Halfdan Cleve (1879–1951), Norwegian composer
- Hendrick van Cleve III (died 1589), painter and engraver born in Antwerp
- Horatio P. Van Cleve (1809–1891), Union general in the U. S. Civil War
- Jim Van Cleve (born 1978), American musician, songwriter and producer
- John Cleve, a pseudonym of Andrew J. Offutt (born 1934), American science fiction writer
- Joos van Cleve (c. 1485–1540/41), Flemish painter, father of Cornelius
- Lee Van Cleef (1925-1989), American film Western genre actor
- Martin Van Cleve (1520–1570), Flemish painter, brother of Hendrick
- Nathan Van Cleave (1910-1970), American composer and orchestrator
- Nathan van Cleef, one of the villains of Shanghai Noon (modeled after Lee Van Cleef)
- Per Teodor Cleve (1840–1905), Swedish chemist and geologist
- Richard Cleve, Canadian computer scientist
- Rudolf Cleve (1919–1997), Luftwaffe officer of World War II
- William Van Cleave advisor to Ronald Reagan
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