Clifford Kenyon Shipton (August 5, 1902 – December 3, 1973) was an American archivist and historian.

Shipton was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and first came to Harvard in 1922.

[1] He received an undergraduate degree from the university in 1926, and later completed master's and doctoral studies.

[2][3] In 1930 he began work as editor of the Sibley's Harvard Graduates; between 1932 and 1975 he completed work on the Harvard classes of 1690 to 1771.

[4] Shipton was a founding member of the Society of American Archivists[1] and was its president in 1967 and 1968.