Chrétien

• Chrétien de Troyes, 12th century French poet
• Chrétien Le Clercq, 17th century Roman Catholic missionary
• Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845), French merchant-trader, diplomat and scholar
• Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845), French musician and composer
• Gisèle Chrétien, Canadian broadcast executive
• Henri Chrétien, (1879–1956), French astronomer and inventor
• Jean Chrétien (born 1934), 20th Prime Minister of Canada (serving 1993-2003), and former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (serving 1990-2003) also:
• Aline Chrétien (born 1936), his wife
• Michel Chrétien (born 1968), his son
• Jean-Guy Chrétien (born 1946), Canadian politician
• Jean-Loup Chrétien (born 1938), French astronaut
• Raymond Chrétien (born 1942), former Canadian ambassador to the United States
• Todd Chretien (born 1969), contemporary U.S. activist
• Chrétien (crater), a lunar crater

In the French languauge, chrétien is the masculine form of 'Christian', as both noun and adjective