Clapp

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clapp may refer to:

People named Clapp or Clap:

• The Clapp surname, predominantly found in England and the United States
• Allen Clapp, an American rock singer in the band, The Orange Peels
• Asa Clapp, an American politician (d.1891)
• Benjamin Clapp, television pioneer
• Cameron Clapp, an American disabled athlete and actor
• Charles Horace Clapp, an American university president (d. 1935), see Montana Tech
• 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
• James K. Clapp, an inventor. See clapp oscillator (below)
• John Clapp (artist), a professor and children's book illustrator
• John Clapp (baseball), a professional baseball player and manager (d. 1904)
• Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a.k.a. "Dame Shirley", an American writer (d. 1906)
• Althea Louise Brough Clapp, an American tennis 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
• Verner Clapp, an American librarian and writer (d. 1972)
• George Clapp Vaillant, an American anthropologist (d. 1945)

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