Woodward (surname)

People with the name

Actors

• Edward Woodward, British actor
• Joanne Woodward, American actress
• Jonathan M. Woodward, American actor
• Morgan Woodward, American actor
• Peter Woodward, British actor
• Pollyanna Woodward, British television presenter
• Sarah Woodward, British actress
• Shannon Woodward, American actress
• Tim Woodward, British actor

  Architects

• Benjamin Woodward, Irish architect
• Robert Woodward, Australian architect

  Art, literature, music

• Alice B. Woodward, British illustrator
• Alun Woodward, Scottish singer-songwriter known as Lord Cut-Glass
• Anna Woodward, American painter
• Antony Woodward, British writer
• Buddy Woodward American musician, composer, singer, actor, and anime voice performer; member of The Dixie Bee-Liners
• George Moutard Woodward, British amateur painter and caricaturist
• George Ratcliffe Woodward, English composer
• Gerard Woodward, British novelist and poet
• J. K. Woodward, American comic book artist
• John Douglas Woodward, American landscape artist
• Keren Woodward, British singer and songwriter; member of Bananarama
• Lydia Woodward, American television writer and producer
• Lucy Woodward, English-American singer/songwriter
• Mabel May Woodward, American painter and art educator
• Richard Woodward , organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
• Richard B. Woodward, arts critic for The New York Times
• Roger Woodward, Australian pianist
• Thomas Jones Woodward, birth name of singer Tom Jones
• William Woodward , American artist and educator

  Business and finance

• Allen Harvey Woodward, American businessman and baseball team owner
• Charles A. Woodward, Canadian merchant, founder of the Woodward's Department Stores chain
• Charles N. "Chunky" Woodward, 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, British Accountant and vice chairman of Manchester United F.C.
• Emerson Francis Woodward, American oilman
• James T. Woodward, American banker and owner of a major thoroughbred horse dynasty
• William Woodward, Sr., American banker and horse breeder
• William Woodward, Jr., 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 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, American judge; father of Bob Woodward
• Asa Woodward,, American politician from Connecticut
• Augustus B. Woodward, first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory
• Benjamin Woodward , New York politician
• Charles Edgar Woodward, US federal judge and former Attorney General of Illinois
• Edward Woodward , Australian judge and Royal Commissioner
• Eric Woodward, Governor of New South Wales, Australia
• George Washington Woodward, US Representative from Pennsylvania
• James G. Woodward, American newspaperman and politician, four-term mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
• John Woodward , Australian lawyer and Environmental Commissioner
• Joseph A. Woodward, US Representative from South Carolina
• Neil Woodward, US Navy officer and former astronaut
• Oliver Woodward, Australian metallurgist and World War I soldier
• Orpheus S. Woodward, American Union Civil War brevet brigadier general
• Philip Woodward , Australian judge and Royal Commissioner
• Sandy Woodward, British admiral
• Shaun Woodward, British politician
• Stanley Woodward, American diplomat
• William Woodward, US Representative from South Carolina ; father of Joseph A. Woodward
• William G. Woodward, Associate Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court

  Science and academia

Biology, Geography, and Geology

• Arthur Smith Woodward, British paleontologist involved with the Piltdown Man
• Bernard Barham Woodward, British malacologist
• Bernard Henry Woodward, British-born naturalist and director of the Western Australian Museum
• David Woodward , English-American cartographer
• Henry Woodward , British geologist and invertebrate paleontologist
• Henry Page Woodward, British-born Australian geologist
• Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, British geologist, awarded the Wollaston Medal
• John Woodward , English naturalist and geologist
• Joseph Janvier Woodward, American Civil War surgeon
• Samuel Woodward, British geologist and antiquarian
• Samuel Pickworth Woodward, British geologist and malacologist with the British Museum and Royal Agricultural College
• Theodore Woodward, American medical researcher
• Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, English botanist
• The Woodward brothers, John D. S. and Richard B., English missionaries and ornithologists

  Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics

• Carol S. Woodward, American computational mathematician
• Foster Neville Woodward FRSE, British chemist working on chemical weapons
• Henry Woodward , Canadian inventor involved with the incandescent bulb
• James F. Woodward, American physicist and historian of science
• Philip Woodward, British mathematician, radar engineer, and horologist
• Robert Burns Woodward, American organic chemist; Nobel Prize winner
• Robert Simpson Woodward, American physicist and mathematician

  Other academics

• Amanda Woodward, American psychologist and professor at University of Chicago
• Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, English minister, antiquarian, and royal librarian at Windsor Castle
• C. Vann Woodward, American historian
• Calvin M. Woodward, American educator
• Daphne Woodward, French – English translator
• Donald Woodward Lee,, American philologist
• F. L. Woodward, English educator, Pali scholar and theosophist
• Joan Woodward, British sociologist
• Llewellyn Woodward, British historian
• Mark R. Woodward, American academic

  Sports

• Alan Woodward, British soccer player
• Alex Woodward, Australian rules footballer
• Andy Woodward, English footballer
• Bethy Woodward, British Paralympic athlete
• Brian Woodward, English professional footballer
• Cameron Woodward, Australian motorcycle speedway rider
• Chris Woodward, American Major League Baseball player
• Clive Woodward, Rugby union World Cup winning coach
• Danielle Woodward, Australian slalom canoer
• Frank Woodward, American baseball pitcher
• Frank Woodward, New Zealand rugby player
• Fred Woodward, British footballer
• Gabe Woodward, American swimmer
• Harry Woodward , English footballer
• Jason Woodward, New Zealand rugby player
• John Woodward, English footballer
• John Woodward, Scottish former footballer
• Johnny Woodward, English footballer
• Nathan Woodward, British track and field athlete
• Rob Woodward, American baseball pitcher
• Steve Woodward, New Zealand cricket umpire
• Vivian Woodward, British amateur football player
• William Woodward , English cricketer
• Woody Woodward, American Major League Baseball player

  Other fields

• Bob Woodward, American journalist, author, and Watergate reporter
• Ella Woodward, British food writer, granddaughter of Tim Sainsbury
• Grace Woodward, English fashion stylist and television presenter
• Louise Woodward, British au pair implicated in a baby-shaking death in the 1990s
• Stanley Woodward , American newspaper editor and sportswriter
• Jono Woodward, English radio presenter and voiceover artist

  Fictional characters

• Amanda Woodward, fictional television character played by Heather Locklear