Crispin (given name)

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

Last updated November 27, 2025

Crispin is a masculine given name.^[1]

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 John Cansino (born 1999), Filipino basketball player
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

↑ 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.

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[Hanks_Hardcastle_Hodges_2006-1] 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.

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Crispin (given name)

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