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Griff (singer)

Griff, real name Sarah Faith Griffiths (born 2001), is a British pop singer-songwriter-producer from Hertfordshire; BRITs 2021 Rising Star winner, mixtape One Foot in Front of the Other (2021), debut album Vertigo (2024) on Warner Music UK.

Griff C. Lee

Griff C. Lee is an American civil engineer who helped develop Gulf of Mexico offshore platforms and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Griff Griffitts

Griff Griffitts is an American Republican politician who served in the Florida House from the 6th district, elected in 2022 after serving as a Bay County Commissioner.

Griff Rhys Jones

Griff Rhys Jones (born Cardiff, 1953), Welsh comedian, actor, writer and presenter of Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones with Mel Smith; co-founder of Talkback Productions, heritage campaigner, and star of I'm Sorry, Prime Minister (2026).

Griffin

Griffin (griffon, gryphon; Greek γρύψ): legendary hybrid with a lion's body and eagle's head and wings, known since about 3000 BC in Egypt and the Near East, a gold-guarding beast in Greek myth, Nemesis's attribute in Rome, and a heraldic charge since 1167.

Griffin (The Invisible Man)

Griffin is the scientist protagonist-villain of H.G. Wells's 1897 novel The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, unnamed in the book, called Jack Griffin in the 1933 Universal film and Adrian Griffin in the 2020 film.

Griffin Barrows

Griffin Barrows (born 1988, Chapin, South Carolina) is an American gay adult film performer, formerly a pastry cook, known for ChaosMen and Men.com work, his Fleshjack Boy line, and a large OnlyFans following.

Griffin Conine

Griffin Conine, Miami Marlins outfielder, son of Jeff Conine; Blue Jays 2018 second-rounder traded for Jonathan Villar, hit 36 minor league homers in 2021, MLB debut August 2024.

Griffin Dunne

Griffin Dunne (Thomas Griffin Dunne, born 1955) is an American actor, producer, and director known for An American Werewolf in London, After Hours, Double Play Productions, Practical Magic, This Is Us, and his 2024 memoir The Friday Afternoon Club.

Griffin Gaming Partners

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2019 by Peter Levin, Phil Sanderson, and Nick Tuosto to invest exclusively in gaming.

Griffin Gluck

Griffin Alexander Gluck (born 2000) is an American actor known for Sam Ecklund in American Vandal, Gabe in Locke & Key, and films Just Go With It, Middle School, and Big Time Adolescence.

Griffin in Summer

Griffin in Summer is a 2024 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Nicholas Colia about a 14-year-old playwright with an unrequited crush on a handyman.

Griffin Jax

Griffin Jax (James Griffin Jax, born 1994) is an MLB right-handed pitcher, the first Air Force Academy graduate to play in the majors. Twins reliever turned Rays starter after a July 2025 trade for Taj Bradley; 2024 breakout with 2.03 ERA.

Griffin McElroy

Griffin McElroy, podcaster and former Polygon co-founder; host of My Brother, My Brother and Me (2010) and Dungeon Master of The Adventure Zone (2014), a 180-million-download actual-play podcast adapted into #1 NYT bestselling graphic novels.

Griffin Mission One

Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1) is a lunar lander mission by Astrobotic under NASA's CLPS, launching to Nobile Crater on a Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2026.

Griffin Newman

Griffin Newman (born 1989, New York City) is an American actor, comedian, and podcaster, fully named Griffin Claude Beresford Dauphin Hunter Newman. Known for Arthur in The Tick, Orko and Pip voice roles, and co-hosting Blank Check with Griffin & David.

Griffin O'Neal

Griffin O'Neal (Griffin Patrick O'Neal), American actor born 1964 in Los Angeles, son of Ryan O'Neal and Joanna Moore, brother of Tatum; starred in The Escape Artist (1982), April Fool's Day and The Wraith (1986); acquitted of manslaughter in the 1986 Gian-Carlo Coppola boating death.

Griffin P. Rodgers

Griffin P. Rodgers is an American physician-scientist and molecular hematologist who has directed NIDDK at NIH since 2007 and helped develop hydroxyurea, the first effective sickle cell anemia therapy.

Griffin Park

Griffin Park was Brentford FC's stadium in West London from 1 September 1904 to 29 July 2020, famous as the only English league ground with a pub on each corner; demolished 2021 for housing.

Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is a set of annual Canadian literary awards for first-edition poetry collections in English, founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin, Margaret Atwood, and others.

Griffin Romigh

Griffin D. Romigh is an American auditory scientist and electrical engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, awarded a 2017 PECASE for early-career research.

Griffis Residential (Griffis Premium Apartment Funds)

Griffis Residential, manager of the Griffis Premium Apartment Funds, is a Greenwood Village, Colorado private equity firm that acquires and repositions Class A apartment communities, with $3.8 billion under management.

Griffith (グリフィス) (Berserk)

Griffith (グリフィス) is the charismatic leader of the Band of the Hawk in Kentaro Miura's manga Berserk, Guts's friend and later betrayer at the Eclipse, reborn as ruler of Falconia.

Griffith C. Evans

Griffith C. Evans (1887–1973) was an American mathematician in functional analysis, potential theory, and mathematical economics who built the mathematics departments at Rice Institute and Berkeley.

Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory is a public astronomy observatory and science education center on Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, opened in 1935 and run by the city with free admission.

Griffith Park

Griffith Park, Los Angeles: roughly 4,200-4,500-acre urban wilderness park in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains, donated by Griffith J. Griffith in 1896; home to Griffith Observatory, LA Zoo, Greek Theatre; about 10 million visitors yearly.

Griffith Stadium

Griffith Stadium, Washington D.C. ballpark (1911-1965) at Georgia Avenue NW, home of the Senators, Homestead Grays, and Redskins; famed for its 421-foot center field, homeowner-made notch, and 1924 World Series.

Griffith University

Griffith University, a public Australian university in South East Queensland founded by Act of Parliament in 1971 and teaching from 1975, with about 45,000 students across Gold Coast, Logan, Nathan, Brisbane City and online campuses, ranked second worldwide in the 2026 THE Impact Rankings.

Griffith's experiment

Griffith's experiment was a 1928 study by the British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith showing that a harmless Streptococcus pneumoniae strain could be transformed into a lethal one.

Griffiths group

The Griffiths group, named for Phillip A. Griffiths, is the group of homologically trivial codimension-r algebraic cycles on a smooth projective variety modulo algebraically trivial ones.