John Strother Griffin (1816–1898) was a surgeon attached to the General Stephen W. Kearney expedition from New Mexico to California, a landowner and founder of East Los Angeles and a member of the Common Council of the city of Los Angeles, where he was one of the first university-trained physicians to settle.
- Occupation
- politician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 25, 1816
- Died
- 1898, August 23, 1898