Griffin is a city in and the county seat of Spalding County, Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 23,643.
Seton Hill University is a private Catholic university in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Formerly a women's college, it became a coeducational university in 2002 and enrolls about 2,200 students.
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study is a small interdisciplinary college within New York University. Students design their own interdisciplinary program that meets their specific interests and career goals. Coursework can be taken at any of the schools that compose NYU in addition to the school's own offerings.
Robert Paul Griffin was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Michigan in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He co-sponsored the Landrum-Griffin Act, which regulates the internal affairs of labor unions. As a deputy minority leader in the Senate, he called on President Richard Nixon to resign during the Watergate scandal.
Marion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School.Her work in the United States developed and expanded the American Prairie School. Her work in India and Australia reflected Prairie School ideals of indigenous landscape and materials in the newly formed democracies. The scholar Deborah Wood has stated that Griffin "did the drawings people think of when they think of Frank Lloyd Wright ." She produced some of the finest architectural drawing in America and Australia and was instrumental in envisioning the design plans for the capital city of Australia, Canberra.
Kenneth Cordele "Ken" Griffin is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chief executive officer, Co-chief investment officer, and 85% owner of Citadel LLC, which had $38 billion of assets under management as of March 2021. Citadel Securities, a market maker, handles 40% of the stock trades in the United States.
James Bennett Griffin was an American archaeologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential archaeologists in North America in the 20th century.
Cornelius Griffin is a former American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the second round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Pearl River Community College and Alabama.
Michael Devin Griffin is a former American football safety who played 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas. He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft.
Dax S. Griffin is an American actor. He is known for portraying younger Hank Pym in Ant-Man and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Levi Thomas Griffin was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
William M. Anderson is an Irish film editor who was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Dead Poets Society (1989). He has had an extended, notable association with the director Peter Weir, beginning with the film Gallipoli (1981), including Dead Poets Society, and continuing through The Truman Show (1998). Lee Smith co-edited The Truman Show, and was sole editor on Weir's next film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). Anderson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
James Anthony Griffin is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Columbus from 1983 to 2004.
Joan Margaret Monahan was a New Zealand swimmer, botanist and school teacher.
Diane Edmund Griffin is the University Distinguished Professor, and a Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was the department chair from 1994-2015. She is also the current vice-president of the National Academy of Sciences. She holds joint appointments in the departments of Neurology and Medicine. In 2004, Griffin was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the discipline of microbial biology.
The 1893 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football that represented the University of Michigan as a member of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest during the 1893 college football season. In its second season under head coach Frank Barbour, the team compiled a 7–3 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 278 to 102.
Thomas R. Chiola served as a judge of the Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County from 1994 to 2009. He was the first openly gay person elected to public office in Illinois.
Oscar O'Neal Griffin Jr. was an American journalist.
Sara Griffin, later known as Sara Webster, is a softball coach and former softball player and athletic compliance officer. While playing for the University of Michigan from 1995 to 1998, she was a three-time, first-team National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American. She compiled a win-loss record of 106–19 at Michigan and concluded her collegiate career as the career leader in wins in the Big Ten Conference.
Piper Dinita Griffin is an American judge who is an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
