Woodward (surname)
Woodward is a surname.
People with the name
Notable people with the name Woodward include:
Actors
- Adam Woodward, British actor
- Edward Woodward (1930–2009), British actor
- Joanne Woodward (born 1930), American actress
- Jonathan M. Woodward (born 1973), American actor
- Morgan Woodward (1925–2019), American actor
- Peter Woodward (born 1956), British actor
- Pollyanna Woodward (born 1982), British television presenter
- Sarah Woodward (born 1963), British actress
- Shannon Woodward (born 1984), American actress
- Tim Woodward (born 1953), British actor
Architects
- Benjamin Woodward (1816–1861), Irish architect
- Robert Woodward (architect), Australian architect
Art, literature, music
- Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), British illustrator
- Alun Woodward, Scottish singer-songwriter known as Lord Cut-Glass
- Anna Woodward (1868–1935), American painter
- Antony Woodward (born 1963), British writer
- Buddy Woodward (born 1963) American musician, composer, singer, actor, and anime voice performer; member of The Dixie Bee-Liners
- Caroline Marshall Woodward (1828–1890), American author
- George Moutard Woodward (1760–1809), British amateur painter and caricaturist
- George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934), English composer
- Gerard Woodward (born 1961), British novelist and poet
- J. K. Woodward, American comic book artist
- John Douglas Woodward (1846–1924), American landscape artist
- Keren Woodward (born 1961), British singer and songwriter; member of Bananarama
- Lydia Woodward, American television writer and producer
- Lucy Woodward (born 1977), English-American singer/songwriter
- Mabel May Woodward (1877–1945), American painter and art educator
- Richard Woodward (organist) (1743–1777), organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
- Richard B. Woodward, arts critic for The New York Times
- Roger Woodward (born 1944), Australian pianist
- Thomas Jones Woodward, birth name of singer Tom Jones
- William Woodward (artist) (1859–1939), American artist and educator
Business and finance
- Allen Harvey Woodward (1876–1950), American businessman and baseball team owner
- Charles A. Woodward (1852–1937), Canadian merchant, founder of the Woodward's Department Stores chain
- Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward (1924–1990), Canadian merchant and rancher, son of William Culham Woodward and grandson of Charles A. Woodward, long-time owner of the Douglas Lake Ranch
- Ed Woodward (born 1971), British Accountant and vice chairman of Manchester United F.C.
- Emerson Francis Woodward (1879–1943), American oilman
- James T. Woodward (1837–1910), American banker and owner of a major thoroughbred horse dynasty
- William Woodward, Sr. (1876–1953), American banker and horse breeder
- William Woodward, Jr. (1920–1955), American banker and "The Shooting of the Century" victim
- William Culham Woodward, Canadian merchant and former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, son of Charles A. Woodward and father of C.N. Woodward
Clergy, theologians, and religious figures
- Richard Woodward (bishop), Bishop of Cloyne in the Church of Ireland
- Thomas Best Woodward, 19th-century Irish theologian
- Thomas Bullene Woodward, American Episcopal priest
- Thomas E. Woodward, Christian apologist
Government, law, and military
- Alfred Woodward (1913–2007), American judge; father of Bob Woodward
- Asa Woodward, (1830–1921), American politician from Connecticut
- Augustus B. Woodward (1774–1827), first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory
- Benjamin Woodward (New York politician) (1780–1841), New York politician
- Charles Edgar Woodward (1876–1942), US federal judge and former Attorney General of Illinois
- Edward Woodward (judge) (1928–2010), Australian judge and Royal Commissioner
- Eric Woodward (1899–1967), Governor of New South Wales, Australia
- George Washington Woodward (1809–1875), US Representative from Pennsylvania
- James G. Woodward (1840–1923), American newspaperman and politician, four-term mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- John Woodward (lawyer) (born 1934), Australian lawyer and Environmental Commissioner
- Joseph A. Woodward (1806–1885), US Representative from South Carolina
- Neil Woodward (born 1962), US Navy officer and former astronaut
- Oliver Woodward (1885–1966), Australian metallurgist and World War I soldier
- Orpheus S. Woodward (1837–1919), American Union Civil War brevet brigadier general
- Philip Woodward (judge) (1912–1997), Australian judge and Royal Commissioner
- Sandy Woodward (1932–2013), British admiral
- Shaun Woodward (born 1958), British politician
- Stanley Woodward (1899–1992), American diplomat
- William Woodward (South Carolina politician), US Representative from South Carolina (1815–1817); father of Joseph A. Woodward
- William G. Woodward (1808–1871), Associate Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
- Barbara Woodward - British diplomat, China expert
Science and academia
Biology, Geography, and Geology
- Arthur Smith Woodward (1864–1944), British paleontologist involved with the Piltdown Man
- Bernard Barham Woodward (1853–1930), British malacologist
- Bernard Henry Woodward (1846–1916), British-born naturalist and director of the Western Australian Museum
- David Woodward (cartographer) (1942–2004), English-American cartographer
- Henry Woodward (geologist) (1832–1921), British geologist and invertebrate paleontologist
- Henry Page Woodward (1858–1917), British-born Australian geologist
- Horace Bolingbroke Woodward (1848–1914), British geologist, awarded the Wollaston Medal
- John Woodward (naturalist) (1665–1728), English naturalist and geologist
- Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833–1884), American Civil War surgeon
- Samuel Woodward (1790–1838), British geologist and antiquarian
- Samuel Pickworth Woodward (1821–1865), British geologist and malacologist with the British Museum and Royal Agricultural College
- Theodore Woodward (1914–2005), American medical researcher
- Thomas Jenkinson Woodward (1745–1820), English botanist
- The Woodward brothers, John D. S. and Richard B. (c. 1848–1905), English missionaries and ornithologists
Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics
- Carol S. Woodward, American computational mathematician
- Foster Neville Woodward FRSE (1905-1985), British chemist working on chemical weapons
- Henry Woodward (inventor) (fl. 1874), Canadian inventor involved with the incandescent bulb
- James F. Woodward (born 1941), American physicist and historian of science
- Philip Woodward (1919–2018), British mathematician, radar engineer, and horologist
- Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979), American organic chemist; Nobel Prize winner
- Robert Simpson Woodward (1849–1921), American physicist and mathematician
Other academics
- Amanda Woodward, American psychologist and professor at University of Chicago
- Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (1816–1869), English minister, antiquarian, and royal librarian at Windsor Castle
- C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American historian
- Calvin M. Woodward (1837–1914), American educator
- Daphne Woodward, French – English translator
- Donald Woodward Lee, (1910-1977), American philologist
- F. L. Woodward (born 1871), English educator, Pali scholar and theosophist
- Joan Woodward (1916–1971), British sociologist
- Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British historian
- Mark R. Woodward (born 1952), American academic
Sports
- Alan Woodward (born 1946), British soccer player
- Alex Woodward (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
- Andy Woodward (born 1973), English footballer
- Bethy Woodward, British Paralympic athlete
- Brian Woodward (born 1929), English professional footballer
- Cameron Woodward, Australian motorcycle speedway rider
- Chris Woodward (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player
- Clive Woodward (born 1956), Rugby union World Cup winning coach
- Danielle Woodward, Australian slalom canoer
- Frank Woodward (1894–1961), American baseball pitcher
- Frank Woodward (rugby league), New Zealand rugby player
- Fred Woodward (1899–1963), British footballer
- Gabe Woodward, American swimmer
- Harry Woodward (footballer) (1887–?), English footballer
- Jason Woodward, New Zealand rugby player
- John Woodward (footballer, born 1947), English footballer
- John Woodward (footballer born 1949), Scottish former footballer
- Johnny Woodward (1924–2002), English footballer
- Nathan Woodward (born 1989), British track and field athlete
- Rob Woodward (born 1962), American baseball pitcher
- Steve Woodward (born 1947), New Zealand cricket umpire
- Vivian Woodward (1879–1954), British amateur football (soccer) player
- William Woodward (cricketer) (?–1862), English cricketer
- Woody Woodward (born 1942), American Major League Baseball player
Other fields
- Bob Woodward (born 1943), American journalist, author, and Watergate reporter
- Ella Woodward (born 1991), British food writer, granddaughter of Tim Sainsbury
- Grace Woodward, English fashion stylist and television presenter
- Louise Woodward (born 1978), British au pair implicated in a baby-shaking death in the 1990s
- Stanley Woodward (editor) (1895–1965), American newspaper editor and sportswriter
Fictional characters
- Amanda Woodward (Melrose Place), fictional television character played by Heather Locklear
- Anthony "Tony" Woodward a.k.a Girder - a supervillain from the DC Comics universe and enemy of the Flash (Wally West)
See also
This page lists people with the surname Woodward.
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