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Griffith (surname)

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Meaning
  
"strong lord"

Region of origin
  
Wales

Related names
  
Gruffydd, Griffiths, Griffin

Griffith is a surname of Welsh origin which derives from the given name Gruffudd. The prefix Griff (originally Gruff) may mean "strong grip" and the suffix, udd, means "chief"/"lord". The earliest recorded example of the surname was "Gryffyth" in 1295, but the given name is older. People with the surname or its variants include:

List of people surnamed Griffith

  • Alan Arnold Griffith, a British engineer specializing in fracture mechanics and aircraft gas turbine engines
  • Alberta E. Jeffryes Griffith, (1909-1974), first woman pilot licensed in Colorado, United States
  • Anastasia Griffith, a British actress
  • Andy Griffith (1926–2012), an American actor, writer and producer
  • Anthony Griffith, an English-born Montserrat international football player
  • Arthur Griffith, an Irish Republican leader
  • Bill Griffith, (born 1944), an American cartoonist
  • Charles Griffith (disambiguation), various people
  • Clark Griffith, baseball player, manager, executive, and member of the Hall of Fame
  • Corinne Griffith, a silent film era actress and author
  • D. W. Griffith, an American film director
  • Dan Griffith, an American DJ
  • Edward Griffith (zoologist), a British naturalist
  • Edward H. Griffith (1894-1975), an American film director
  • Emile Griffith (1938-2013), U.S. Virgin Islands boxer
  • Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
  • Forrest Griffith (1928–2007), American football player
  • Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934), a British Egyptologist
  • Frank Kingsley Griffith, a British Liberal politician and judge
  • Frederick Griffith (disambiguation), several people
  • George Griffith, a writer
  • Griffith J. Griffith, a Welsh-American industrialist known for donating land for Griffith Park in Los Angeles
  • Harold Griffith (1894–1985), a Canadian anaesthetist
  • Hugh Griffith, a Welsh actor
  • James Bray Griffith (1871-), American business theorist
  • Jamie Bamber, born Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith, a British actor
  • Jason Griffith, an American voice actor who is the former voice of Sonic the Hedgehog
  • John Griffith (disambiguation), a number of people called John Griffith
  • Justin Griffith, a NFL fullback who currently plays for the Oakland Raiders
  • Kenneth Griffith, a Welsh actor and documentary film maker
  • Laetitia Griffith (born 1965), a Dutch politician
  • Leon Griffith, an Arkansas politician
  • Melanie Griffith (born 1957), an American actress
  • Morgan Griffith, an American politician from Virginia
  • Nanci Griffith, an American singer, guitarist and songwriter
  • Nicola Griffith, a British author
  • Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi, the fifth Paramount Chief of Lesotho
  • Peter Griffith (1933-2001), an American actor
  • Phillip Alan Griffith, mathematician
  • Ralph T.H. Griffith, an Indologist
  • Ronald Griffith, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
  • Samuel Griffith, an Australian politician and jurist who had a large part in composing the Constitution of Australia
  • Samuel B. Griffith, an officer and commander in the United States Marine Corps
  • Thomas B. Griffith, an American federal judge
  • Virgil Griffith, an American hacker
  • Welborn Griffith, an American soldier
  • William Griffith (1810–1845), a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist
  • William Griffith (disambiguation) (1960), an outdoor enthusiast and mentally insane
  • Xiomara Griffith, a Venezuelan judoka

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