Clinton Albert Cilley (February 16, 1837 – May 9, 1900) was a North Carolina lawyer and judge, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions as an officer in the Union Army at the Battle of Chickamauga in the American Civil War.

[1] Cilley moved to western North Carolina at the end of the Civil War and became regional administrator for the Freedmens Bureau.

Although he was essentially a carpetbagger, Cilley became very popular as a lawyer in Lenoir, North Carolina, where he was elected one of the town's first mayors.

He died May 9, 1900, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Hickory (Catawba County), North Carolina.

The Catawba County Museum of History contains the Clinton Cilley Collection of Civil War artifacts.