Crispin is a masculine given name.[1]
Gender | Masculine |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Latin: Crispus |
Meaning | curly-headed |
People
edit- 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
edit- Crispin Cronk, in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling
- Crispin, from Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
References
edit- ^ 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.