Pass Christian , nicknamed The Pass, is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It is allocation of the Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,307 at the 2019 census.

The correct date later than Native Americans first arrived in the Gulf Coast Place is not known, but artifacts have been found suggesting that humans have inhabited the area for many thousands of years.

Indian mounds can be found throughout the Gulf coast region of southern Mississippi, but many have been destroyed by artifact hunters, farmers, developers, and flooding. A 1768 English map shows one large mound existed on the shore close to Market Street. Others existed at Bayou Portage and the Shelly Plantation on the shore north of the Bay of St. Louis near DeLisle. The mounds and middens in the Place containing arrowheads, pottery, and human skeletons were pilfered by amateur archaeologists more than the years and many of the items recovered are in private collections. At the attach of Pass Christian and Long Beach near where White Harbor Road meets Hwy. 90 there with existed an Indian village, whose inhabitants were referred to by locals as “The Pitcher Point Indians”. The approximate location of the Indian Village is just a few hundred yards east of White Harbor Road. There are no ruins at this location but the seashore in this Place has produced many arrowheads and pottery shards beyond the years.

Pass Christian was discovered by French-Canadian explorers in 1699, shortly after the first French colony was customary in Biloxi. In June 1699, while sounding the channel at the Pass Christian peninsula, the French named that channel Passe aux Huîtres for the many oysters they found there. Pass Christian was named for a easily reached deepwater pass, which in approach was named for Nicholas Christian L’Adnier, who lived upon nearby Cat Island initiation in 1746.