Cletus

This article is about the given name. For the genus of leaf-footed bugs, see Gonocerini.

Cletus or Cleatus may refer to:

People

Religion

• Pope Anacletus (died c. 92), third Bishop of Rome, also known as Cletus
• Cletus Bél (died 1245), Hungarian prelate

Politics

• Cletus Avoka (born 1951), Ghanaian lawyer and politician
• Cletus Seidu Dapilah (born 1980), Ghanaian politician
• Cletus Dunn (born 1948), Canadian politician
• Cletus Wotorson (1937–2024), Liberian politician and geologist

Sports

• Cletus Andersson (1893–1971), Swedish water polo player
• Clete Blakeman (born 1964), American football official
• Clete Boyer (1937–2007), American baseball player
• Cletus Clark (born 1962), American retired hurdler
• Cletus Paul (born 1993), Indian footballer
• Cletus Seldin (born 1986), American boxer

Other fields

• Cletus Ibeto (born 1952), Nigerian businessman
• Cletus P. Kurtzman (1938–2017), American mycologist
• Cletus Mendis (born 1949), Sri Lankan actor

Fictional characters

• Cletus Hogg, a deputy in the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard
• Cletus Kasady, a Marvel Comics supervillain, also known as Carnage
• Cletus Klump, in The Nutty Professor and its sequel
• Cledus Snow, in Smokey and the Bandit
• Cletus Spuckler, in The Simpsons
• Cleatus, a minor character on Good Times
• Cletus, a recurring character in Helluva Boss
• Cletus, in the Deponia video game series

Other uses

• Cleatus the Robot, the robot mascot of Fox NFL Sunday and all of Fox Sports
• Cletus (bug), a genus of true bugs in the family Coreidae

See also

• Cleitus (disambiguation)
• Cletis (disambiguation)