Claude Curtin

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Claude Curtin

| image =

| fullname = Claude Frederick Curtin{{cite web|url=http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=A&VeteranId=546971| title=WW2 Nominal Roll| publisher=Australian Government}}

| birth_date = 4 July 1920

| birth_place = Brunswick, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|12|13|1920|7|4|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| originalteam = Fitzroy CYMS

| height = 183 cm

| weight = 83 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1949

| years1 = 1939–1947

| club1 = Fitzroy

| games_goals1 = 91 (268)

| years2 = 1948

| club2 = North Melbourne

| games_goals2 = {{0}}4 {{0|00}}(7)

| years3 = 1949

| club3 = Fitzroy

| games_goals3 = {{0}}2 {{0|00}}(1)

| games_goalstotal = 97 (276)

| careerhighlights =

}}

Claude Frederick Curtin (4 July 1920 – 13 December 1994){{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/Claude%2BCurtin/7728|title=Claude Curtin - Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football|accessdate=10 December 2014}}{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Darren|title=(For the Record)|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=age&kw=claude+curtin&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=0&clsPage=1&docID=news941218_0103_2050|accessdate=24 January 2011|newspaper=The Age|date=18 December 1994|page=16}} was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.

A full-forward, Curtin was the nephew of former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin.{{cite news|last=Skulley|first=Mark|title=True-Blue Party Faithful Await Hawke Successor|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=age&kw=claude+curtin&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=0&clsPage=1&docID=news920206_0166_3521|accessdate=24 January 2011|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=6 February 1992|page=6}} He kicked over fifty goals in a season on four separate occasions, from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. In each of those seasons he topped Fitzroy's goalkicking. He would have been a member of the club's 1944 premiership side had he not be away on war service.

His grandson is former Fitzroy, Brisbane Lions and Hawthorn player John Barker