Woodward is a surname.
People with the name Notable people with the name Woodward include:
Actors Adam Woodward (born 1992), British actor Edward Woodward (1930–2009), British actor Henry Woodward (English actor) (1714–1777), English 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 (1953–2023), British actor
Architects Benjamin Woodward (1816–1861), Irish architect Robert Woodward (architect) (1923–2010), Australian architect
Art, literature, music Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), British illustrator Alun Woodward (born 1971), 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 and The Kingston Trio 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 Tom Jones (born 1940, birth name Thomas Jones Woodward), Welsh singer 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 (1885–1957), 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) (1726–1794), Bishop of Cloyne in the Church of Ireland Thomas Best Woodward (1814–1875), 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 Barbara Woodward (born 1961), British diplomat and China expert 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) (1934–2022), Australian lawyer and Environmental Commissioner Joseph A. Woodward (1806–1885), US Representative from South Carolina Maud Woodward (1885–1965), American politician 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 Peter Woodward (politician) (died 1685), American politician Philip Woodward (judge) (1912–1997), Australian judge and Royal Commissioner Sandy Woodward (1932–2013), British admiral Shaun Woodward (born 1958), British politician Stanley Woodward (political aide) (1899–1992), American diplomat Stanley Woodward (attorney), American lawyer Vernon Crompton Woodward (1916–2000), Canadian fighter pilot 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
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
Medicine Alice Woodward Horsley (1871–1957), New Zealand doctor, the first registered woman doctor in Auckland
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 C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American historian Calvin M. Woodward (1837–1914), American educator Donald Woodward Lee, (1910–1977), American philologist F. L. Woodward (1871–1952), 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 (1946–2015), English footballer Alex Woodward (born 1993), Australian rules footballer Andy Woodward (born 1973), English footballer Andy Woodward (chess player) (born 2010), American chess player Bethy Woodward (born 1992), British Paralympic athlete Brian Woodward (footballer) (1929–2014), English professional footballer Cameron Woodward (born 1985), 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 (born 1965), Australian slalom canoer Frank Woodward (baseball) (1894–1961), American baseball pitcher Frank Woodward (rugby league) (1885–1941), New Zealand rugby player Fred Woodward (footballer) (1899–1963), British footballer Gabe Woodward (born 1979), American swimmer Harry Woodward (footballer, born 1887) (1887 – after 1909), English footballer Jason Woodward (born 1990), 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 Skyler Woodward (born 1993), American pool player Steve Woodward (born 1947), New Zealand cricket umpire Vivian Woodward (1879–1954), British amateur football (soccer) player Viv Woodward (1914-?), Welsh professional footballer William Woodward (cricketer) (died 1862), English cricketer Woody Woodward (born 1942), American Major League Baseball player
Other fields Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (1816–1869), English minister, antiquarian, and royal librarian at Windsor Castle Bob Woodward (born 1943), American journalist, author, and Watergate reporter Caroline M. Clark Woodward (1840–1924), American activist, writer Daphne Woodward (1906–1965), translator of French and German into English Ella Woodward (born 1991), British food writer Grace Woodward (born 1976), English fashion stylist and television presenter Indiana Woodward (born 1993 or 1994), French ballet dancer Louise Woodward (born 1978), British au pair implicated in a baby-shaking death in the 1990s Sara Griffith Stanley Woodward (1837–1918), U.S. abolitionist, author, educator 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, supervillain from the DC Comics universe and enemy of the Flash (Wally West)
Lists of people with the name Woodward
By name Arthur Woodward (disambiguation) Bernard Woodward (disambiguation) Billy Woodward (disambiguation) Caroline M. Woodward (disambiguation) Charles Woodward (disambiguation) David Woodward (disambiguation) Douglas Woodward (disambiguation) Francis Woodward (disambiguation) Frank Woodward (disambiguation) Fred Woodward (disambiguation) G. M. Woodward (disambiguation) George Woodward (disambiguation) Gilbert Woodward (disambiguation) Harry Woodward (disambiguation) Henry Woodward (disambiguation) James Woodward (disambiguation) Jim Woodward (disambiguation) John Woodward (disambiguation) Joseph Woodward (disambiguation) Kenneth Woodward (disambiguation) Mabel Woodward (disambiguation) Michael Woodward (disambiguation) Richard Woodward (disambiguation) Robert Woodward (disambiguation) Samuel Woodward (disambiguation) Scott Woodward (disambiguation) Stanley Woodward (disambiguation) Thomas Woodward (disambiguation) Viv Woodward (disambiguation) William Woodward (disambiguation)
By title General Woodward (disambiguation) Judge Woodward (disambiguation) Justice Woodward (disambiguation) Senator Woodward (disambiguation)
See also
Woodard (disambiguation) Woodward (disambiguation) Woodyard (disambiguation)