Griffith (surname)

Griffith
Family name
Meaning	"lord with a (?)strong grip"
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:

• Alan Arnold Griffith, a British engineer specializing in fracture mechanics and aircraft gas turbine engines
• Anastasia Griffith, a British actress
• Andy Griffith, 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
• Clark Griffith, a MLB Hall of Famer
• Corinne Griffith, a silent film era actress and author
• D. W. Griffith, an American film director
• Edward Griffith (zoologist), a British naturalist
• Edward H. Griffith (1894-1975), an American film director [1]
• Emile Griffith, the first World Boxing Champion
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934), a British Egyptologist
• Frank Kingsley Griffith, a British Liberal politician and judge
• Frederick Griffith,the discoverer of a transforming principle, later shown to be DNA
• George Griffith, a writer
• Griffith J. Griffith, a Welsh-American industrialist known for donating land for Griffith Park in Los Angeles
• Hugh Griffith, a Welsh actor
• Ioan Gruffudd, a Welsh actor
• Jamie Bamber (Griffith), a British actor
• Jason Griffith, an American voice actor that 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 Member of Parliament for the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
• 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
• Nathaniel Griffith, the fifth Paramount Chief of Lesotho (1913–1939)
• Peter Griffith (1933-2001), an American actor
• Phillip Alan Griffith, mathematician
• Samuel Griffith, an Australian politician and jurist who had a large part in composing the Constitution of Australia
• Ralph T.H. Griffith, an Indologist
• Virgil Griffith, an American hacker
• Xiomara Griffith, a Venezuelan judoka

See also

• Griffith (name)
• Griffiths
• Gruffudd (disambiguation)/Gruffydd