John Griffiths (27 July 1806 – 14 August 1885) was an academic at the University of Oxford, where he was Warden of Wadham College and Keeper of the Archives.

He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1827, and was made a Fellow of Wadham in 1830, lecturing in classics and then in divinity.

He was one of the "Four Tutors" who protested in March 1841 against the Anglo-Catholic John Henry Newman's Tract 90, despite his dislike of controversy.

He later explained that he disliked the anonymous basis on which the tract had been published, with an implicit link to the university, as well as its content.

He was known as a courteous and hospitable man, formal in his dress and behaviour, and rather reserved (which seemed not to help relations with Wadham's undergraduates).