Claire Backhouse-Sharpe (née Backhouse; born May 13, 1958) is a Canadian badminton player and coach.

[6] Backhouse-Sharpe began playing badminton at age 12 combining her other interests in baseball, squash, street hockey and tennis.

[6] She began playing for the Canada national badminton team in either 1976 or 1977,[2][9] and was listed at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) and 128 lb (58 kg).

[10] As a rookie and an unseeded entrant, Backhouse-Sharpe reached the semi-finals of the women's doubles at the 1978 All England Open Badminton Championships with her partner Jane Youngberg, defeating the Dutch and English sides in the preceding rounds before losing to the Japanese squad.

[11][12] She went on to claim silver medals in both the women's doubles with Youngberg and the mixed team event with five other Canadian players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

[19] At the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Backhouse-Sharpe was part of the six-player silver medal winning squad of the mixed team competition.

[20] Backhouse-Sharpe was elected to the board of directors of Badminton Canada on a one-year term starting in July 2018.