Crescas

Crescas (, קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common name among Jews of southern France and Catalonia. There have been a number of scholars and rabbis sharing that surname, including:


 * Abiathar Crescas, a 15th-century Jewish physician and astrologer, doctor to King John II of Aragon (1458–79)
 * Astruc Don Crescas
 * Meshullam ben Machir, Don Bonet Crescas de Lunel, French scholar who settled at Perpignan, where he died in 1306
 * Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340, Barcelona – 1410/1411), a Catalan Jewish philosopher, halakhist
 * Israel ben Joseph Halevi Crescas Caslari, known as "Crescas Caslari", an Aragonese-French Jewish physician and poet
 * Mordecai En Crescas of Orange
 * Don Crescas Vidal of Perpignan (fr)
 * Vidal de Caslar Crescas

Cresques
Cresques is the Catalan standardized variant of the Jewish name Crescas (קרשקש)
 * Abraham Cresques (? – 1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma de Mallorca
 * Jehuda Cresques (also Jafudà Cresques; 1350 ? – 1427 ?)
 * Cresques Abiatar, a Jewish physician in Catalan Aragon Kingdom