Griffith (surname)

Griffith

Origin
Word/name	Welsh
Meaning	"strong lord"
Region of origin	Wales
Other names
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
• 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 marital 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
• Ioan Gruffudd, 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

See also

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