Clark
Clark A scribe or clerk, the occupation from which the name derives
Language(s) Old English Meaning Clerk , scribe, secretaryRegion of origin England Variant form(s) Clarke , Clerk Frequency Comparisons[ 1]
Clark is an English language surname with historical links to England, Scotland, and Ireland,[ 2] Latin clericus meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated. Clark evolved from "clerk ". First records of the name are found in 12th-century England. The name has many variants.[ 3]
Clark is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom ,[ 1] [ 4] given name , as in the case of Clark Gable .
According to the 1990 United States Census , Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population.[ 5]
Disambiguation pages
Anne Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleBrian Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleCameron Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleCharles Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleChris Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleClive Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleColin Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleDouglas Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleDavid Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleDick Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleEdward Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleEugene Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleGeorge Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleGregory Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJack Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJames Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJason Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJeff Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJim Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJohn Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJonathan Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleJoseph Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleKate Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleKen Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleKenneth Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleLee Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleMary Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peoplePaul Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleRobert Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleRyan Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleSally Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleSamuel Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleSimon Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleTerry Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleThomas Clark (disambiguation) , multiple peopleWilliam Clark (disambiguation) , multiple people
Arts and literature
Alton Dorian Clark (born 1984), better known as American hip-hop musician Dorian
Andy Clark (musician) , British musicianAnn Clarke (born 1944), Canadian artistAnnie Erin Clark, better known under her stage name St. Vincent (musician) (born 1982), American singer, songwriter, and musician
Appleton P. Clark Jr. (1865–1955), American architectBlake Clark (born 1946), American actor and stand-up comedianBob Clark (Benjamin "Bob" Clark) (1941–2007), an American directorBuddy Clark (1911–1949), American singerCatherine Clark (born 1976), Canadian television hostClark (musician) (born 1979), British musician, who is also known as Chris ClarkChristian Clark (born 1978), Australian actorClaudine Clark (born 1941), American R&B singer and performer of the 1962 hit record "Party Lights"Cora Mildred Maris Clark (1885–1967), New Zealand hockey player and nurseDave Clark (musician) (born 1939), English drummer of The Dave Clark FiveDorothy Park Clark (1899–1983), American novelist who wrote under the pen name Clark McMeekin
Dodie Clark (born 1995), English musician, YouTuber, and authorDonté Clark , American poet, actorErnest Clark (1912–1994), British actorFlorence Anderson Clark (1835–1918), American author, newspaper editor, librarian, university deanGuy Clark (1941–2016), American musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performerHarriet E. Clark (1850–1945), American teacher and authorHelen Taggart Clark (1849–1918), American journalist, poetHilda Margery Clarke (1926–2022), English painter and curatorJean Clark (artist) (1902–1999), English artistJoseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938), English artistJoshua Clark , (born 1980), American writerKen Clark (actor) , (1921–2009), American actorLaura Lee Clark (born 1964), American interior designerLeah Clark , American voice actorLibby Clark (?-2012), American journalistLouis Clark (1947–2021), musician and conductor with The Orchestra (successor band to ELO and ELO Part II)Petula Clark (born 1932), British singer, actress, and songwriterRobin Clark (pop singer) , (born 1949), 1960s American pop singerRoy Clark (1933–2018), American singer and musicianSpencer Treat Clark (born 1987), American actorStephen R. L. Clark (born 1945), English philosopherSteve Clark (1960–1991), British guitarist for Def LeppardTom Clark (journalist) , Canadian television journalistVicky A. Clark , American art curatorVinnie B. Clark (1878–1971), American educator and authorWallis Clark (1882–1961), English actorWilliam Clark (artist) (1803–1883), Scottish artist
Business
Politics and law
Abraham Clark (1725–1794), American politician and Revolutionary War figureAlan Clark (1928–1999), British Conservative politician and author, son of Kenneth ClarkAlistair Clark, Lord Clark (fl. 2016 ), Scottish judge, senator of the College of JusticeAugusta Clark (1932–2013), American librarian, lawyer and politicianBarbara M. Clark (1939–2016), New York politicianBenjamin S. W. Clark (1829–1912), a New York politicianBilly J. Clark (1778–1866), a New York physician and politicianBoyd A. Clark (1918–1978), an American politician and juristChantelle Nickson-Clark , American politicianDarius Clark (1798–1871), New York physician and politicianFrank M. Clark (1915–2003), American CongressmanGavin Brown Clark (1846–1930), MP for CaithnessGreenleaf Clark (1835–1904), American juristHelen Clark (born 1950), prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008Horace Clark (assemblyman) , 1830s New York politicianHorace F. Clark (1815–1873), US Congressman from New YorkIsabella Clark (1809–1857), wife of Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. MacdonaldJanet H. Clark (born 1941), Minnesota politicianJoe Clark (born 1939), former prime minister of CanadaKaren Clark (politician) (born 1945), American politician from MinnesotaKaty Clark (born 1967), Scottish politician and trade union officialKelly Clark (lawyer) (1957–2013), American lawyerMarcia Clark (born 1953), American lawyer and authorMaureen Harding Clark (born 1946), Irish juristNewcomb Clark (1840–1913), Michigan politicianOrville Clark (1801–1862), New York politicianRamsey Clark (1927–2021), US attorney general and activistRita Clark (1915–2008), member of the Pennsylvania House of RepresentativesSatterlee Clark , American politicianSeptima Poinsette Clark (1898–1987), American educator and voting registration leaderSir Terence Clark (born 1934), British retired diplomat and writer
Tom C. Clark (1899–1977), US attorney general, U.S. Supreme Court justiceZenas Clark (1795–1864), New York politician
Science and medicine
Adam Clark , American meteorologistBenjamin Preston Clark (1860–1939), an American entomologistBracy Clark (1771–1860), English veterinary surgeon specialising in the horseCynthia Clark (born 1942), American statisticianDaniel Kinnear Clark (1822–1896), Scottish railway mechanical engineerDuncan W. Clark (1910–2007), American public health specialistGerry Clark (1927–1999), New Zealand sailor and ornithologistGrahame Clark (1907–1995), British archaeologistHamlet Clark (1823–1867), English entomologistHilda Clark (doctor) (1881–1955), Quaker physician and humanitarianHubert Lyman Clark (1870–1947), American zoologistJeanne Clark , American internist and physician-scientistJudson Freeman Clark (1870–1942), Canadian forester and mycologistKara Clark, American wind turbine researcherLeslie J. Clark (1924–2003), British engineer and founder of ParvaluxLynn G. Clark (born 1956), American botanistNoel A. Clark (born 1940), American physicistWilfrid Le Gros Clark (1895–1971), British palaeoanthropologist
Sports
Alysha Clark (born 1987), American-Israeli basketball playerBabe Clark , American football playerBobby Clark (footballer, born 2005) Caitlin Clark (born 2002), American basketball playerCalum Clark (born 1989), English rugby union playerCarmel Clark (born 1965), New Zealand swimmerChuck Clark (born 1995), American football playerChuck Clark (ice hockey) (1891–1970), British-born Canadian ice hockey playerCiaran Clark (born 1989), Irish football playerCorrie Clark (born 1982), American breaststroke swimmerDallas Clark , American football playerDamone Clark (born 2000), American football playerDaniel Clark (born 1988), British basketball playerDarion Clark (born 1994), American football playerDuncan Clark (athlete) (1915–2003), Scottish hammer throwerDwight Clark (1957–2018), American football playerEarl Clark , American basketball playerElky Clark (1898–1956), Scottish boxer of the 1920sEmily Clark (born 1995), Canadian ice hockey playerFrank Clark (footballer) , English football playerGinger Clark (1879–1943), American baseball pitcherGlenn Clark (born 1969), Canadian coach of Toronto RockHannah Clark (born 1990), English cricketerHudson Clark (born 2001), American football playerJaylen Clark (born 2001), American basketball playerJeremy Clark (defensive back) (born 1994), American football playerJerrod Clark (born 1999), American football playerKei'Trel Clark (born 2001), American football playerKelly Clark (born 1983), American snowboarderKihei Clark (born 2000), American–Filipino basketball playerLe'Raven Clark (born 1993), American football playerLeon Clark (basketball) , American basketball playerOcky Clark (born 1960), American middle-distance runnerOtey Clark (1915–2010), American baseball pitcherR. Foster Clark , American college sports coachRanza Clark (born 1961), Canadian middle-distance runnerRoger Clark (rally driver) , British rally driverSherm Clark (1899–1980), American Olympic rower and rear admiralStuart Clark (born 1975), Australian cricketerWendel Clark (born 1966), retired Canadian ice hockey playerWill Clark (born 1964), American baseball playerZoey Clark (born 1994), British sprinter
Other
Alice Clark (historian) (1874–1934), English suffragist and historianAnnie W. Clark (1843–1907), American social reformerAlister Clark (1864–1949), Australian rose-breederClark Olofsson (born 1947), Swedish criminalDavis Wasgatt Clark (1812–1871), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchFelton Grandison Clark (1903–1970), African-American university presidentGraham Clark (tenor) (1941–2023) English tenorHarold M. Clark (1890–1919), American army majorHugh Massey Clark (1886–1956), New York philatelistHulda Regehr Clark , (1928–2009), alternative medicine practitionerJoseph Samuel Clark (1871–1944), African-American university presidentManning Clark (1915–1991), Australian historianMark W. Clark (1896–1984), American army general in World War 2 (Italy) and the Korean WarNada Hazel Clark (1922–1964), New Zealand trade unionistNancy B. Clark , Massachusetts philatelist, president of Cardinal Spellman Philatelic MuseumR. Scott Clark (born 1961) American seminary professorTheresa Mathilde Clark (c. 1890 –1953), New York philatelist, spouse of Hugh Massey ClarkWesley Clark (born 1944), American army general in the Vietnam War and KosovoCarlos Clark Van Leer (1865–1953), American military officer
Fictional characters
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Surnames associated with the occupation of
clerk or
scribe Germanic
Clark , Clarke , Clarkson , Clerk , Clerke , De Clerck Klerk /KlerckSchreber , Schreiber , Schriever , Schrijver , Schriver , Scrivener , Scriver , Shriver Romance Slavic
