Clara

• Clara Hughes is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who won two bronze at the 1996 Summer Olympics and four medals across three Winter Olympics.
• Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist and communist activist who championed women's rights.
• Clara Luper was a pioneering Oklahoma City teacher and civil rights leader who led the 1958 sit ins that desegregated lunch counters, spearheaded more protests through 1964, and later ran for the United States Senate.
• Clara Lemlich Shavelson led New York's 1909 Uprising of 20,000, was blacklisted for union activism, later joined the Communist Party and became a consumer activist, and in old age organized her nursing home staff.
• Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud was an American concert singer and the only surviving child of Mark Twain who managed his legacy, wrote biographies of her father and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, later married Jacques Samossoud, and became a Christian Scientist.
• Clara Susanna Henry is a Swedish actress, comedian, blogger, TV presenter, and author with about 372,000 YouTube subscribers, host of a Kanal 5 talk show, and a two-time backstage reporter at SVT’s Melodifestivalen.
• Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby was a British American suffrage leader, lecturer, and newspaper publisher who founded The Womans Tribune and became the first woman officially appointed a war correspondent during the Spanish American War.