Woodward

A Woodward is a warden of a wood and, deriving from that, an occupational surname. It may refer to:

People

• Alan Woodward (born 1946), former British soccer player
• Alfred Woodward (born 1913), American jurist, and father of Bob Woodward
• Amanda Woodward, American psychologist and professor at University of Chicago
• Arthur Smith Woodward (1864–1944), British paleontologist
• Augustus B. Woodward (1774–1827), first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory
• Benjamin Woodward (1816–1861), Irish architect
• Benjamin Woodward (New York) (1780–1841), New York politician
• Bernard Barham Woodward (1853–1930), malacologist from United Kingdom
• Bob Woodward (born 1943), American journalist, author and Watergate reporter
• C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American historian
• Chris Woodward (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player
• Clive Woodward (born 1956), British rugby coach
• Dani Woodward (born 1984), American porn actress
• Daphne Woodward, French - English translator
• David Woodward (born 1961), British carpenter
• Edward Woodward, Jr. (1847–1923), British druggist and chemist
• Edward Woodward (1930–2009), British actor
• Edward Woodward (judge) (1928–2010), Australian judge and Royal Commissioner
• Emma Woodward (born 1993), British former child actress
• Eric Woodward (1899–1967), Governor of New South Wales, Australia
• George Moutard Woodward (1760–1809), amateur British painter and caricaturist
• George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934), English composer
• Gerard Woodward (born 1961), British novelist and poet
• Harry M. Woodward, American geologist
• Henry Woodward (inventor), Canadian medical student and inventor
• Henry Woodward (geologist) (1832–1921), British geologist
• James G. Woodward (1840–1923), American newspaperman and politician, serving as a four-term mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
• James T. Woodward (1837–1910), American banker and owner of a major thoroughbred horse dynasty
• Joan Woodward (1916–1971), British organization sociology professor
• Joanne Woodward (born 1930), American actress
• John Woodward (naturalist) (1665–1728), English naturalist and geologist
• John Woodward (footballer born 1949) (born 1949), Scottish former footballer
• John Deverell Stewart Woodward (1849 – c. 1905), British missionary and ornithologist
• Keren Woodward (born 1961), British singer and songwriter; member of Bananarama
• Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British historian
• Louise Woodward (born 1978), British au pair implicated in a baby-shaking death in the 1990s
• Lucy Woodward (born 1977), singer/songwriter
• Mark R. Woodward (born 1952), American academic
• Micky Woodward, chairman of Grays Athletic F.C.
• Peter Woodward (born 1956), British actor
• Philip Woodward (born 1919), British mathematician, radar engineer and horologist
• Philip Woodward (judge) (1912–1997), Australian judge and Royal Commissioner
• Richard Blake Woodward (1848 – c. 1905), British missionary and ornithologist
• Richard Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne in the Church of Ireland
• Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979), Nobel Prize-winning organic chemist
• Robert Woodward (architect), fountain designer
• Roger Woodward (born 1944), Australian pianist
• Samuel Woodward (1790–1838), British geologist and antiquarian
• Sandy Woodward (born 1932), British admiral
• Sarah Woodward (born 1963), British actress
• Shannon Woodward (born 1984), American actress
• Shaun Woodward (born 1958), British politician
• Tim Woodward (born 1953), British actor
• Vivian Woodward (1879–1954), British amateur football (soccer) player
• William Woodward, Sr. (1876–1953), American banker and horse breeder
• Woody Woodward (born 1942), American Major League Baseball player

Places

United States

• Woodward, Alabama
• Woodward, Iowa
• Woodward, Oklahoma
• Woodward, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place
• Woodward Avenue, a Michigan state highway
• Woodward Corridor, a neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan
• Woodward County, Oklahoma
• Woodward Park (disambiguation), multiple places
• Woodward Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation), multiple places

Businesses

• Woodward, Inc., American maker of energy devices
• Woodward & Lothrop, American department store chain
• Woodward's, Canadian department store chain
• Woodward Iron Company, in Birmingham (Woodward) Alabama
  • The Woodward's building in Vancouver, British Columbia

Education

• Woodward Academy, a private school in Georgia (United States)
• Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), the oldest public high school still in operation in the United States
• Woodward School for Girls, a private school in Quincy, Massachusetts (United States)
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward, an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case

Other uses

• Woodward Camp, a youth summer camp in Pennsylvania
• Woodward Dream Cruise, a classic car event held in Michigan
• Woodward-Hoffmann rules may predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions
• Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes

See also

• Woodard (disambiguation) (note different spelling)