# 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