Trivia

He and Bonnie Parker were known as the infamous "Bonnie and Clyde".

At a prison work camp, Clyde cut off two of his toes with an axe to be moved to the same prison his brother, Buck Barrow, was in.

After his partner, W.D. Jones stole a coupe from a couple and drove away in it, Clyde forced the couple into his car and drove around for a while. When he let them out, he asked the man if they had any money, when the man (who was the undertaker who later embalmed them) said he only had 25 cents, Clyde gave him five dollars to get back home.

Had to cook most of the meals for Bonnie Parker and the rest of the Barrow gang because Bonnie hated to cook.

Subject of the songs "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" by Merle Haggard (1968) and "The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde" by Georgie Fame (1967).

Clyde and Buck Barrow's gravestone in Dallas's Western Heights Cemetery reads: "Gone but not forgotten". This sentiment was Clyde's suggestion and meant for Buck, who died in 1933. But the Barrow family did not mark Buck's grave until Clyde was buried with him the following year, so the epitaph serves for both. Incidentally, Clyde was given "first billing" on the headstone, even though Buck was the older brother and predeceased him.

Barrow's and Bonnie Parker's separate funeral services respectively drew crowds of 15,000 and 20,000 in May 1934. One of the attendees at each funeral was telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, father of writer-director Robert Benton, who would go on to be Oscar-nominated for his screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde (1967) over thirty years later.

Played guitar and saxophone, and once aspired to become a professional musician. He had his sax with him when he died.

Clyde's headstone at Western Heights Cemetery originally stood upright. It was stolen and recovered five times over the years, the last in 1980. To prevent further thefts, the marble headstone was encased in a block of cement and placed into the ground as a flat marker.

Clyde had five tattoos, all on his arms. Three commemorated girlfriends by their first names or initials, with a heart and dagger for one and a girl's face for another. None were for Bonnie.

Although Frank Hamer and his men fired over 130 rounds in the Bonnie and Clyde ambush, Clyde was taken out by the very first bullet. Before an order to fire was given, Deputy Prentiss Oakley jumped up and shot Clyde once through the left temple, killing him instantly. Bonnie screamed, and the 6-man posse proceeded to empty all their weapons into the car and its occupants.