Clarence Paul Oliver

{{short description|American geneticist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Clarence Paul Oliver

| image =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|11|8|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Dexter, Missouri

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|7|10|1898|11|8|mf=y}}

| death_place =

| field = Genetics

| education = University of Texas

| work_institution = University of Minnesota
University of Texas at Austin

| doctoral_advisor = Hermann Joseph Muller

| known_for = Human genetics and pseudoallelism

}}

Clarence Paul Oliver (November 8, 1898 – July 10, 1991), known to his friends as "Pete", was an American geneticist. Born in Dexter, Missouri, he attended college at University of Texas receiving a BA in 1925. He continued his studies at University of Texas completing a PhD in the laboratory of Hermann Joseph Muller in 1931. From 1932 to 1946 he was a member of the faculty of University of Minnesota where future nobelist Edward B. Lewis worked in his lab as an undergraduate. From 1946 to his retirement in 1971, he was a faculty member at University of Texas, where he studied human genetics and pseudoallelism.