Clarissa

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was born Clarissa Harlowe Barton, after the main character in Richardson's "Clarissa".

I love the name, also a character in North and South by John Jakes - Clarissa Main, the mother of the southern protagonist Orry Main.

Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop (1847 – September 11, 1892) was an American social reformer and autobiographer. Her prominence came from her remarkable experience, being confined and unlawfully imprisoned in the Utica Lunatic Asylum for 26 months (October 1880 – December 1882), through a plot of a secret enemy to kill her. She eventually managed to communicate with James Bailey Silkman, a lawyer who, like herself, was confined in the same asylum under similar circumstances. He succeeded in obtaining a writ of habeas corpus, and Judge George G. Barnard of the New York Supreme Court pronounced Lathrop sane and unlawfully incarcerated.

A song by Mindless Self Indulgence.

Duh, Clarissa by Stefan Zweig.

Clarissa Fray is the main character of the Mortal Instruments Trilogy, by Cassandra Clare. She goes by the nickname "Clary".
Clarisse is a daughter of Ares (or demi-god) in the book the Lightning Theif.

Clarissa Chun (born 1981 in Honolulu, Hawaii, US) is an American wrestler.

Clarissa is the name of one of the 'Two Fat Ladies' a wonderful British Cooking programme on T.V. I think she's the one who's still living.

Clarissa Fray is the main character of the Mortal Instruments Trilogy, by Cassandra Clare. She goes by the nickname "Clary".

A famous bearer was the Countess of Avon - Clarissa Eden (born Anne Clarissa Spencer Churchill, niece of Sir Winston Churchill), who married British statesman Sir Anthony Eden, created Earl of Avon.

Clarisse is a daughter of Ares (or demi-god) in the book the Lightning Theif.

Clarissa Darling was the main character of the TV show "Clarissa Explains It All".

In the movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", Clarissa is the first name of Saunders.

Clarissa is the name of Mrs. Dalloway in the novel with the same name by Virginia Woolf.

Clarissa is also the title of the 18th Century epistolary novel -- Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady (1747-48) written by Samuel Richardson.