Woodward (surname)

Woodward is a surname.

Notable people with the name Woodward include:

• 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

• Benjamin Woodward (1816–1861), Irish architect
• Robert Woodward (architect) (1923–2010), Australian architect

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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) (1934–2022), 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 (political aide) (1899–1992), American diplomat
• Stanley Woodward (attorney), American lawyer
• 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 (born 1961), British diplomat and China expert

• 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

• Alice Woodward Horsley (1871–1957), New Zealand doctor, the first registered woman doctor in Auckland

• 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

• 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

• 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 (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

• 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, French–English translator
• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• General Woodward (disambiguation)
• Judge Woodward (disambiguation)
• Justice Woodward (disambiguation)
• Senator Woodward (disambiguation)

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