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, which ultimately derives from clara ("clear" and "bright"). It can also be a female form of the male name Clarence.

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 Herzog (born 1941), Brazilian sociologist and human rights activist
• 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 Osiecki (1934–2007), American politician
• 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 Ferguson, alter ego of Blink, a Marvel Comics superheroine
• Clarice Starling, in the Hannibal Lecter series
• Clarice, in the short film Two Chips and a Miss and the Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life TV series