Clarissa (given name)

Notable people

• Clara Barton, American humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross
• Clarissa Davis, American coach and women's basketball hall-of-famer
• Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
• Clarissa F. Dye, Civil War nurse from Philadelphia
• Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon
• Clarissa Pinkola Estés, American poet
• Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop, American social reformer, autobiographer

  Fictional characters

• Clarissa Explains It All, a children's TV show in the 1990s
• Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway, a 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf
• Clarissa "Clary" Fray in The Mortal Instruments novel series
• Clarissa Harlowe, the heroine of Samuel Richardson's 1748 tragic epistolary novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
• Clarissa Hailsham-Brown in Spider's Web, a 1954 play by Agatha Christie
• Clarissa Mellon in Enduring Love, a 1997 novel by Ian McEwan
• Clarissa Saunders in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a 1939 film
• Clarissa Dovey in The School of Good and Evil novel series
• Clarissa Banks in PANdemIC, an upcoming comic by Richard Meyer.