Crittenden (surname)

Crittenden is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander P. Crittenden (1816–1870), 19th-century attorney and politician in California; nephew of John J. Crittenden; grandson of John Crittenden Sr.
• Dorothea Crittenden (1915–2008), Canadian deputy minister for the Ministry of Community and Social Services
• Eugenia Crittenden Luallen (née Blackburn; born 1952), former Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
• Flora D. Crittenden (1924–2021), American educator and civil rights activist in Virginia turned politician
• George B. Crittenden (1812–1880), U.S. Army officer
• Joe Crittenden (born 1944), Cherokee Nation politician
• John Crittenden Sr. (1754–1809), U.S. Army officer and politician
• John J. Crittenden (1787–1863), American politician
• John Crittenden Watson (1842–1923), admiral of the U.S. Navy; grandson of John J. Crittenden
• Paul Crittenden (born 1958), former Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) politician
• Robert Crittenden (1797–1834), American lawyer and Arkansas politician
• Robert Crittenden Newton (1840–1877), American lawyer, politician, and Confederate Colonel from Arkansas
• Shawn Crittenden, Cherokee Nation politician
• Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (1819–1893), American lawyer, politician and U.S. Army general
• Thomas Theodore Crittenden (1832–1909), U.S. Army officer and politician
• Thomas T. Crittenden Jr. (1863–1938), Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, from 1907 to 1910
• Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1825–1905), U.S. Army officer
• William Logan Crittenden (1823–1851), U.S. Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War

• Freddie Crittenden (born 1994), American track hurdler
• Howie Crittenden (1933–2013), American basketball player
• Monreko Crittenden (1980–2015), American football offensive lineman
• Nick Crittenden (born 1978), English footballer
• Ray Crittenden (born 1970), American football wide receiver

• Billy Crittenden, vocalist with the Nashville vocal quartet, 4 Runner
• Dianne Crittenden (1941–2024), American casting director
• Jennifer Crittenden (born 1969), American screenwriter and producer
• Kate Sara Chittenden (1856–1949), Canadian and U.S. professor of music, music school founder, and piano teacher
• Lisa Crittenden (born 1962), Australian actress
• Melodie Crittenden (born 1968), American country and Christian music artist
• Spencer Crittenden, American assistant writer for the TV series, Great Minds with Dan Harmon
• T. D. Crittenden (1878–1938), American silent film actor

• Oscar Crittenden (1887–1954), Australian retailer
• Gary Crittenden (born 1953), American financial manager, former private equity executive, and retail bank executive

• Stephen Crittenden (born 1963), leading religion journalists and broadcaster from Australia
• William Crittenden (1908–2003), fifth Bishop of Erie in The Episcopal Church, between 1952 and 1973

• Ann Crittenden Coleman (née, Crittenden; pen name, Mrs. Chapman Coleman; 1813–1891), American 19th-century author
• Christopher Crittenden (1902–1969), American historian
• Danielle Crittenden (born 1963), Canadian-American author and journalist
• Edwin Butler Crittenden, (1915–2015), American architect, late of Anchorage, Alaska
• Eugene C. Crittenden (1880–1956), president of (i) the Philosophical Society of Washington (1922) and (ii) Optical Society of America (1932)
• Inez Crittenden (1887–1918), leader of the "Hello Girls", the U.S. Telephone Corps in France during World War I
• Katharine Crittenden (1921–2010), American historic preservationist from Alaska
• Lee Crittenden, Lena Crittenden, pennames of Lela E. Buis, American fiction writer, playwright, poet, and artist
• Nick Crittenden (writer), British writer
• Patricia McKinsey Crittenden (born 1945), American psychologist
• Peter Crittenden, British lichenologist
• Robyn Crittenden, American attorney from the state of Georgia

• Javaris Crittenton (born 1987), American, former NBA player who served a prison sentence for a conviction of involuntary manslaughter

• Javaris Crittenton, basketball player

Surname list

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