Crispin (surname)

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Crispin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ann Carol Crispin was an American science fiction writer, the author of twenty-three published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations and created an original science fiction series called Starbridge.

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels.

Gilbert Crispin was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England. Gilbert became the third Norman Abbot of Westminster to be appointed after the Norman Conquest, succeeding Abbot Vitalis of Bernay.

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