Crittenden (surname)

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

Military, law, and public service

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

Sports

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

Performing arts

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

Commerce

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

Religion

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

Other

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

Infamous

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

See also