title: Cleese
text: # Cleese
  
  Cleese is a surname from Britain; an English surname, and a Scottish surname originating from MacCleese/McCleese.
  
  ## People
  
  People with this name include:
  
  * Alyce Cleese (born 1944), U.S. psychotherapist
  * Cynthia Cleese (born 1971), UK actress
  * John Cleese (born 1939), UK comedian, member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose family name originated as "Cheese"
  
  ## Other
  
  Cleese may also refer to:
  
  * Mount Cleese, the rubbish tip in Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
  