Granted its hard to tell with all the makeup on, but then we could split the question into 2 and ask if any Clown was ever as a Clown while being Non-Cascasian.
I did some preliminary Googleing, and confirmed that Bozo (Bell and D’Auria) was indeed Caucasian.
It boils down to this;
Well Damon Wayons did “Homey the Clown” on the series “In Living Color” back in the early ninites. Famous forthe line “Homey don’t play that!” while bopping someone over the head.
Forgive me if I’m using too narrow a definition of “Caucasian” and too broad a definition of “clown,” but I submit Mario Moreno Reyes, also known as Cantinflas, who was Mexican.
The International Clown Hall of Fame (see www.theclownmuseum.org) does indeed have histories of several very famous clowns who were black.
I had the very great privilege (and it was wonderful fun, too) to investigate clowns and clown history for a Staff Report. It was several years ago, the clown museum seems to have moved from downtown Milwaukee. I did mention one famous black clown, Bert Williams (1874-1922), in that report. My recollection (faulty at times) is that in the early part of the 1900s, it was possible for blacks to be clowns even though many other jobs in entertainment were closed to them, precisely because under all the make-up, who knew?
About 5 minutes after I Asked, I thought of Homey. But I figured he was created more or less on the fact that people can’t think up African America clowns on the spur of the moment. While I agree he does fit the bill, I was hoping for less novelty acts. (That is, not one invented just to fill the perceived gap.)