Crispin (given name)

Crispin is a masculine given name.^[1]

Crispin

Gender	Masculine
Origin
Word/name	Latin: Crispus
Meaning	curly-headed

People

• Crispin Agnew (born 1944), Scottish advocate, herald and former explorer
• Crispin Beltran (1933–2008), Filipino politician and labor leader
• Crispin Blunt (born 1960), a Member of Parliament
• Crispin Bonham-Carter (born 1969), English actor
• Crispin Castro Monroy (born 1936), Mexican politician
• Crispin Conroy (born 1963), Australian diplomat
• Crispin Duenas (born 1986), Canadian Olympic recurve archer
• Crispin Freeman (born 1972), American voice actor
• Crispin Gardiner (born 1942), New Zealand physicist
• Crispin Glover (born 1964), American film actor
• Crispin S. Gregoire (born in 1956), Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Commonwealth of Dominica
• Crispin Grey-Johnson (born 1946), Gambian politician
• Crispin Gray, guitarist and songwriter for musical groups Queen Adreena and The Dogbones
• Crispin Hunt, English lead singer of the Britpop group Longpigs
• Crispin Nash-Williams (1932–2001), British mathematician
• Crispian St. Peters (1939–2010) English singer and songwriter
• Crispin Salvador (1937–2002), Filipino writer and intellectual known for his novels, essays and short-fiction
• Crispin Sartwell (born 1958), American philosophy professor, anarchist and journalist
• Crispin Shumina, member of the Pan-African Parliament from Zambia
• Crispin Tickell (born 1930), English diplomat, environmentalist and academic
• Crispin van den Broeck (1523–1591), Flemish painter
• Crispin Wright (born 1942), English philosopher

Fictional characters

• Crispin Cronk, in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling
• Crispin, from Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 2018-12-17.