Clarice

This article is about the given name. For the TV series, see Clarice (TV series). For the song, see America (America album).

Clarice is a female given name, an anglicization of the French Clarisse, derived from the Latin and Italian name Clarissa, originally used in reference to the nuns of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Clare, whose own name ultimately derives from clara ("clear" and "bright").

It may refer to:

People

Pre-modern world

• Clarice Orsini (1450–1488), wife of Lorenzo de' Medici and mother of Pope Leo X
• Clarice de' Medici (1493–1528), noblewoman from Florence, granddaughter of Lorenzo de' Medici

Modern world

• Clarice Assad (born 1978), Brazilian composer
• Clarice Beckett (1887–1935), Australian painter
• Clarice Benini (1905–1976), Italian chess master
• Clarice Blackburn (1921–1995), American actress
• Clarice Carson (1929–2015), Canadian opera singer
• Clarice Cliff (1899–1972), British ceramic artist
• Clarice Y. Hashimoto, American politician
• Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), Brazilian writer
• Clarice Mayne (1886–1966), English actress
• Clarice McLean (born 1936), American dancer
• Clarice Modeste-Curwen (born 1945), Grenadian politician
• Clarice Morant (1904–2009), American centenarian and caretaker
• Clarice Phelps, African-American nuclear chemist
• Clarice Shaw (1883–1946), Scottish politician
• Clarice Taylor (1917–2011), American actress
• Clarice Tinsley (born 1954), American journalist
• Clarice Vance (1870–1961), American actress

Fictional characters

• Milady "Clarice" de Winter, one of the main antagonists of The Three Musketeers
• The protagonist of the Clarice Bean series of children's books by English writer Lauren Child
• Clarice di Lanza, a character in the Arcana Heart video game series
• Clarice Ferguson, alter ego of Blink, a Marvel Comics superheroine
• Clarice Pendragon, sister of Emma Pendragon from Rugrats
• Clarice Starling, in the Hannibal Lecter series
• Clarice, a character in the short film Two Chips and a Miss and the Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life TV series
• Clarice, a character in Sesame Street
• Clarice, a reindeer in the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special

See also

• Clara (given name)
• Clare (given name)