Notable inmates

Cäcilie "Cilly" Schäfer (born Cäcilie Tannenberg: 25 January 1898 - 18 January 1981) was a German politician (Communist Party of Germany).

Cissi Pera Klein (19 April 1929 in Narvik – 3 March 1943 in Auschwitz) was a Norwegian Jewish girl who is commemorated every year as one of the victims of the Holocaust in her hometown in Trondheim.

Claire Monis (10 February 1922 – 25 October 1967) was a French singer, actress, and lieutenant in the French resistance.

Clara Bohm-Schuch (5 December 1879 – 6 May 1936) (surname sometimes written simply Schuch and first name sometimes Klara) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party.

Clara Margaret Codd (10 October 1876 – 3 April 1971) was a British writer, suffragette, socialist feminist, and theosophist.

Clara Johanna Suzanna de Vries (31 December 1915 – 22 October 1942) was a Dutch jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

On the night of June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States.

Clarence Victor Carnes (January 14, 1927 – October 3, 1988), known as The Choctaw Kid, was a Choctaw man best known as the youngest inmate incarcerated at Alcatraz and for his participation in the bloody escape attempt known as the Battle of Alcatraz.

Clark Oderth Olofsson (later known as Daniel Demuynck; 1 February 1947 – 24 June 2025) was a Swedish criminal.

Claude Bez (November 4, 1940 – January 26, 1999), former Bordeaux soccer team chairman, was a personality in French football culture of the 1980s.

Claude Bourdet (28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician.

Claude Henri Guéant (French pronunciation: [klod ɡeɑ̃]; born 17 January 1945) is a French former civil servant and politician of the now-former conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).

Colonel Claude Pivi (1 January 1960 – 6 January 2026) was a Guinean military and political figure who was a member of the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) and a Minister from December 2008 to 2010.

Claude Rodier (21 July 1903 – 10 November 1944) was a physicist, teacher and staff sergeant in the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR), part of the French Resistance in Auvergne, France.