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