Griffiths
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Griffiths is a surname with Welsh
origins, as in Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr
. People called Griffiths recorded here include:
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
origins, as in Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was the first born son of Llywelyn the Great . His mother Tangwystl probably died in childbirth.-Hostage:...
. People called Griffiths recorded here include:
- Albert Griffiths (1871–1927), better known as Young GriffoYoung GriffoAlbert Griffiths , better known as Young Griffo, was a world featherweight boxing champion.-Professional career:...
, boxing champion - Barri Griffiths (1982–), Welsh professional wrestler and former Gladiators competitor
- Bede GriffithsBede GriffithsBede Griffiths OSB Cam , born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known, by the end of his life, as Swami Dayananda , was a British-born Indian Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted yogi...
(1906–1993), British-born monk and missionary in India - Bryn (Brynlyn) Griffiths, Welsh poet and writer
- Cecil GriffithsCecil GriffithsCecil Redvers Griffiths was a Welsh athlete.- Olympic Gold Medal 1920 :Cecil Griffiths was a winner of the Olympic Gold medal in 4 x 400m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics....
(1901–1945), British athlete - Charles GriffithsCharles GriffithsCharles Edward Griffiths was an Australian politician. Born in Jesmond, New South Wales, he attended public schools and became a railwayman with New South Wales Railways, rising to become an official in the Australian Railways Union...
, Australian politician - Colin GriffithsColin GriffithsColin Griffiths is an English comedian, DJ, VJ and writer. He is most famous for his work as host of the MTV show Up, Up, Down, Down..., the flagship program of MTV Flux which has also aired on TMF UK and MTV UK and Ireland....
(born 1983), English comedian, DJ, VJ and writer - Ciaran GriffithsCiarán GriffithsCiarán Joseph Griffiths is an English actor, best known for his roles as Gary Best in The Bill, Mickey Maguire in Shameless and Dylan Hodge in Waterloo Road.-Biography:...
(born 1983), British actor, currently in Shameless - Dan GriffithsDan GriffithsDaniel 'Dan' Griffiths was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Llanelli and international rugby for Wales. Morgan was a collier by profession.-Rugby career:...
(1857–1936), Welsh international rugby player - David GriffithsDavid GriffithsDavid J. Griffiths is a U.S. physicist and educator. He has worked at Reed College since 1978, where he is currently the Howard Vollum Professor of Science. He is easily confused with the late physicist David J. Griffiths of Oregon State University.Griffiths is a graduate of The Putney School...
, there are several people by this name - Dean GriffithsDean GriffithsDean Horace Griffiths is a male hurdler from Jamaica, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He set his personal best while winning the men's 400m hurdles at the NCAA Championship on June 13, 2003 in Sacramento, California and help Auburn University to a...
(born 1980), Jamaican hurdler - Dewi GriffithsDewi GriffithsDewi Griffiths is a Welsh former television producer and current BBC Radio host. Griffiths joined BBC Wales from the Royal Air Force where he became a producer of TV sports programmes, notably Rugby union broadcasts. After retirement he hosted the nostalgia record programme 'A String of Pearls' on...
(born 1931), Welsh television producer and radio host - Eddie GriffithsEddie GriffithsEdward James Griffiths was an Australian fire fighter, veteran of the Gallipoli campaign and a three-time premiership-winning rugby league player with the Eastern Suburbs club....
, Australian fire fighter, World War I veteran and rugby league footballer - Frances Griffiths : see Cottingley FairiesCottingley FairiesThe Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10...
- Fred GriffithsFred GriffithsFred Griffiths is a former rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s. He played club football in England for Wigan and in Australia for North Sydney, and also represented the South Africa national rugby league team....
, South African rugby league footballer - H. W. Griffiths (Henry W. Griffiths Jr.), Idaho railroad photographer
- Howard Griffiths (disambiguation)
- Ivor GriffithsIvor GriffithsIvor Griffiths was a Welsh footballer.Griffiths made one appearance in The Football League for Chester in December 1946 in a 1–2 defeat at Rochdale. He had previously been with Tottenham Hotspur and he later joined Oswestry Town.-References:...
(1918–1993), Welsh footballer - Jemma GriffithsJem (singer)Jemma Griffiths , better known as Jem, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Finally Woken, includes elements of rock, new wave-styled electronica and trip-hop...
(1975–), better known as Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter - Joel GriffithsJoel GriffithsJoel Griffiths is an Australian football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan.-Club career:He played for Sydney United, Parramatta Power and Newcastle United in the now defunct National Soccer League...
(1979–), Australian soccer - J. Gwyn GriffithsJ. Gwyn GriffithsJohn Gwyn Griffiths , was a Welsh poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist who spent the largest span of his career lecturing at Swansea University.-Early history:...
, poet, Egyptologist and Welsh nationalist political activist - John Lewis GriffithsJohn Lewis GriffithsJohn Lewis Griffiths , was Consul General of the United States to Britain.-References:...
, Consul General of the United States to Britain - John W. GriffithsJohn W. GriffithsJohn Willis Griffiths was an American naval architect who designed the first true clipper ship.His first ship, the Rainbow, was viewed with shock as a difference in design, until she made the round trip from New York to Canton in 180 days instead of the normal year.-Books and...
(1809–1882), American naval architect - Käte Bosse-GriffithsKäte Bosse-GriffithsKäte Bosse-Griffiths was a German born Egyptologist who after moving to Wales became a writer in the Welsh language.-Early history:...
(1910–1998), German born Egyptologist and writer in the Welsh language - Linda GriffithsLinda GriffithsLinda Griffiths is a Canadian actor and playwright.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the National Theatre School for one year, and McGill University....
(1956–), Canadian actor and playwright - Louise GriffithsLouise GriffithsLouise Griffiths is an English pop singer-songwriter, fashion model and actress.-Early life:Griffiths is the daughter of a London taxicab driver...
, pop singer, songwriter and actress - Lucy Griffiths (actress born 1919)Lucy Griffiths (actress born 1919)Lucy Griffiths was a British character actress whose work spanned from the early 1950s through to the early 1980s....
- Lucy Griffiths (actress born 1986)
- Marcia GriffithsMarcia GriffithsMarcia Llyneth Griffiths is a successful female singer, also called the "Queen of Reggae". One reviewer described her noting "she is known primarily for her strong, smooth-as-mousse love songs and captivating live performances".Griffiths started her career in 1964...
(1949–) Jamaican singer - Mike GriffithsMike GriffithsMichael "Mike" Griffiths is a former Welsh rugby union player and British Lion, currently coaching Ystrad Rhondda RFC in the Welsh Rugby Union Division 2 East. He plied his trade with Pontypridd RFC between 1997 and 2003, making 73 appearances.Griffiths's father is George Griffiths, a builder, and...
, Welsh international rugby player - Niall GriffithsNiall GriffithsNiall Griffiths is an author, who has published six books to date. He has also written travel pieces, restaurant and book reviews, and radio plays...
(born 1966), English author - Peter GriffithsPeter GriffithsPeter Harry Steve Griffiths is a retired English Conservative Party politician. He is best known for controversially gaining the Smethwick seat in the 1964 general election against the national trend.-Life:...
, English politician - Philip Jones GriffithsPhilip Jones GriffithsPhilip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war.- Biography :...
(1936–2008), Welsh photojournalist - Philip Lewis GriffithsPhilip Lewis GriffithsPhilip Lewis Griffiths KC was an Australian jurist.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, he studied for a Master of Arts degree at the Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. He then wrote for The Mercury in both Hobart and Launceston, before studying law at the University of Tasmania...
(1881–1945), Australian jurist - Phillip GriffithsPhillip GriffithsPhillip Griffiths is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry. He was a major developer in particular of the theory of variation of Hodge structure in Hodge theory and moduli theory.He received...
(born 1938), American mathematician - Rachel GriffithsRachel GriffithsRachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian film and television actress who came to prominence in the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in the 1997 film Hilary and Jackie....
(born 1968), Australian actress - Rhys Griffiths (footballer)Rhys Griffiths (footballer)Rhys Griffiths is a Welsh footballer, currently playing for the Welsh Premier League club Llanelli. He is also the captain of the club.Griffiths is a six-time winner of the Welsh Premier Golden Boot award...
- Rhys Griffiths (rugby league)
- Richard GriffithsRichard GriffithsRichard Griffiths, OBE is an English actor of stage, film and television. He has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor...
, British actor - Robert Griffiths (disambiguation)
- Rowland GriffithsRowland GriffithsRowland Griffiths was a international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia. Griffiths played club rugby for Newport RFC.-Rugby career:...
(1886–1914), Wales international rugby union player - Ryan Griffiths (guitarist)Ryan Griffiths (guitarist)Ryan Griffiths is the guitarist for the Australian garage rock band The Vines.Craig Nicholls, who started the band, realised while touring for the promotion of Highly Evolved that the band needed an additional guitarist. So Craig asked his longtime friend and schoolmate Ryan to join the band.-Solo...
(1978–) - Sandi GriffithsSandi GriffithsSandi Griffiths is an American singer. She is best known as a performer on American television's The Lawrence Welk Show.-Early years:...
(born 1945), American singer - Selina GriffithsSelina GriffithsSelina Griffiths is a British actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has appeared in many plays as a result of this. She is the daughter of actors Annette Crosbie and Michael Griffiths. Her only brother, Owen Griffiths, is a sound engineer at a post production sound...
, British actress - Terry GriffithsTerry GriffithsTerrence "Terry" Griffiths OBE is a retired Welsh snooker player and current snooker coach and pundit. He won the World Championship in 1979 at the first attempt, and reached the 1988 final. He also won the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982, making him one of seven players to have...
(born 1947), retired Welsh snooker player - Trevor GriffithsTrevor GriffithsTrevor Griffiths is an English dramatist.Raised as a Roman Catholic, he attended Saint Bede's College, before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English...
(born 1935), English dramatist - Tuffy GriffithsTuffy GriffithsGerald Ambrose "Tuffy" Griffiths was an American boxer. He fought as a heavyweight and occasionally as a light heavyweight under the name Tuffy Griffiths.-Early life:...
, boxer
See also
- Griffith (name)Griffith (name)Griffith, and its Welsh form Gruffydd, is a name of Welsh origin that may be used as a personal name or surname, with or without the s as in Griffiths. The name has many variations as a result of the natural evolution of the name in Welsh, as well as the translation of the name from Welsh into both...
- Griffith (disambiguation)
- Griffin (disambiguation)Griffin (disambiguation)A griffin is a legendary creature, usually portrayed with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.Griffin may also refer to:-People:* Griffin , surname** Archie Griffin , American football player...