Cleghorn

Cleghorn and Claghorn are Scottish surnames that may refer to:

People

• Archibald Scott Cleghorn (1835–1910), Scottish businessman who married into Hawaiian royal family
  • Daughter: Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn (1875–1899), Crown Princess of Hawaii
• Edward J. Claghorn (1856–1936), granted first patent for seat belts in 1885
• Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist, biographer, and short story writer, née Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
• George Cleghorn (Scottish physician) (1716–1789) physician, and teacher at Dublin University
• George Claghorn (1748–1824), American patriot and master shipwright who oversaw construction of the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides")
• Harold Cleghorn (1912–1996), New Zealand weightlifter
• Sir Hugh Cleghorn (colonial administrator) (1752–1837), colonial secretary to British Ceylon
• Hugh Francis Cleghorn (1820–1895), physician, botanist, forest conservationist and the colonial administrator's grandson
• Isabel Cleghorn (1852–1922), British educationist and suffragist
• John Cleghorn (born 1941), Canadian businessman
• Kate Claghorn (1864–1938), American Progressive Era scholar and activist
• Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (1876–1959), US author and social reformer known for her four-line satiric poem, "The Golf Links"
• William Cleghorn (1718–1754), British philosopher
• William Cleghorn (Newcastle eccentric) (1777–1860), last of the old eccentrics of Newcastle upon Tyne

Places

• Cleghorn, Scotland, small village near Lanark, South Lanarkshire
• Cleghorn Glen, site of special scientific interest near Cleghorn, Scotland
• Cleghorn, Iowa, small city in the United States
• Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness California
• Claghorn, Pennsylvania, ghost town in the United States
• Cleghorn, Wisconsin, unincorporated
• A district in the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Fiction

• Senator Claghorn, character on The Fred Allen Show
  • Foghorn Leghorn, American animated character that was based on Senator Claghorn