Antoine Clot, popularly known as Clot Bey, a French physician, born near Marseilles in April, 1795, died there in 1808. He studied at Montpellier, became a surgeon at the principal hospital of Marseilles, and in 1822 chief surgeon of the Egyptian army. At the instance of Mehemet Ali he founded at Abu-Zabel, near Cairo, a medical school and hospital, schools for the acquirement of the French language, for apothecaries and veterinary surgeons, and for midwives. In 1832 he received the title of bey, being the first Christian thus honored without being required to change his religion. In 1836 he was made chief physician of the general staff and director of the whole medical administration, with the rank of general. The institutions over which he presided were removed in 1837 to Cairo; and though he was opposed by native fanatics, who even sought to murder him, he effected many improvements in medical education and organization, and displayed great skill and devotion during the prevalence of the cholera. In 1849, after the death of Mehemet Ali, he returned to Marseilles, and presented his Egyptological collections to the French government.

He wrote extensively on the cholera and the plague, and among his works are Apergu general sur l'Egypte (2 vols., Paris, 1840) and Mehemet-AU, xice-roi d'Egypte (Marseilles, 1862).