Kliot Mendel Isaakovich (4 December 1929, Riga) — fashion designer.

Mendel Kliot was the son of Isaak Kliot (1907, Disna, Polotsk region) and Chaya (Braudo) Kliot (1906, Riga).

In 1954, he completed eight grades at Riga Evening Secondary School No. 14 for Working Youth.

Until 1950, he was an apprentice and procurement agent at the Kurpnieks artel. From 1950 to 1953, he served in the Soviet Army (military unit No. 23985 in Riga) with the ranks of private and corporal. From 1953 to 1958, he worked as a fashion designer and head of a workshop at the Stalin’s Five-Year Plan cooperative.

In 1958, Mendel Kliot left Latvia.

Family:

Frida (Pitum) Kliot (b. 1934) — wife
Bencion Kliot (b. 1954) — son
Isaak Kliot (1907, Disna, Polotsk region) — father
Chaya (Braudo) Kliot (1906, Riga) — mother
Hertz Kliot (b. 1932) — brother
Semyon Kliot (b. 1940) — brother
Genoch Kliot (b. 1945) — brother