Tristram Coffin may refer to: Tristram Coffin (settler) (1606–1681), leader of a group of investors who bought Nantucket in 1659 Tristram J. Coffin (born 1963), American attorney Vermont, former United States Attorney Tris Coffin (1909–1990), American film and television actor Tristram Potter Coffin (1922–2012), American academic and folklorist