Claude Randolph Taylor was an American football, basketball, and track and field coach and educator.

He served as the head football coach at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tillotson College—now a part of Huston–Tillotson University—in Austin, Texas, Bluefield State College in Bluefield, West Virginia, and Kentucky State College for Negroes—now known as Kentucky State University—in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Taylor was also the head basketball coach at Johnson C. Smith for one season, in 1928–29, tallying a mark of 6–11.

He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where starred in football and track.

[2] In 1933, Taylor was hired as a science teacher at Douglass High School in Oklahoma City.