Greene (surname)

Greene is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Disambiguation lists
Greenes sharing the same first name:
 * Albert Greene (disambiguation)
 * Bert Greene (disambiguation)
 * Daniel Greene (disambiguation)
 * Frank Greene (disambiguation)
 * Harry Greene (disambiguation)
 * Henry Greene (disambiguation)
 * Herbert Greene (disambiguation)
 * James Greene (disambiguation)
 * Joseph Greene (disambiguation)
 * Joshua Greene (disambiguation)
 * Kevin Greene (disambiguation)
 * Mark Greene (disambiguation)
 * Robert Greene (disambiguation)
 * William Greene (disambiguation)

Arts
See also
 * Alastair Greene (born 1971), American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter
 * Ashley Greene, American actor
 * Balcomb Greene, American artist
 * Brenda Shannon Greene, better known as Shannon, American singer
 * Burton Greene (1937–2021), American free jazz pianist
 * Charles Greene, American architect, partner in Greene and Greene
 * Ellen Greene, American singer and actor
 * Evie Greene (1875–1917), English singer and actor
 * Frances Nimmo Greene (1867-1937), American educator and author
 * Frank Greene (singer) (1879–?), baritone brother of Evie Greene
 * Frank David Greene (born 1963), American trumpet player author, and speaker
 * Gladys Georgianna Greene, better known as Jean Arthur, American actor
 * Graham Greene, Canadian actor
 * Henry Greene, American architect better known as a partner in Greene and Greene
 * J. Patrick Greene, English archaeologist and museum director
 * Jack Greene (1930–2013), American musician
 * Kenny Greene, American singer-songwriter and record producer
 * Kempton Greene, American actor
 * Kim Morgan Greene, American actor
 * Laivan Greene, American actor
 * Lance Greene, American actor and theater and film producer
 * Laura Greene (presenter), British television presenter
 * Leon Greene, English opera singer and film actor
 * Lizzy Greene, American actress
 * Lorne Greene (1915–1987), Canadian actor
 * Maurice Greene (composer), English composer and organist
 * Patrick Greene (composer), American composer
 * Patricia Greene, British actor
 * Peter Greene, American actor
 * Richard Greene, British actor
 * Rosaline Greene, American actress
 * Sarah Greene (actress), Irish actor and singer
 * Sarah Greene (television presenter), British television presenter
 * Shecky Greene (1926–2023), American comedian
 * Susaye Greene, American singer
 * Talib Kweli Greene, better known as Talib Kweli, American emcee
 * Ted Greene (1946–2005), American guitarist and music educator
 * Timothy Greene, South African actor and film director
 * Vivien Greene, English authority on doll's houses

Military

 * Alister Greene (1854-1923), American soldier
 * Christopher Greene (1737-1781), American legislator and soldier
 * Colton Greene (1833-1900), Confederate general during the American Civil War
 * Douglass T. Greene (1891-1964), United States Army officer
 * Francis Vinton Greene (1850-1921), United States Army officer
 * Frederick Stuart Greene (1870–1939), American soldier
 * George S. Greene (1801-1899), Union general during the American Civil War
 * Griffin Greene (1749–1804), commissary, paymaster, and quartermaster to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
 * Harold J. Greene (1959-2014), United States Army general
 * Henry Alexander Greene (1856-1921), United States Army officer
 * Israel Greene (1824-1909), American and CSA Marine
 * James Durrell Greene (1828–1902), American inventor and Civil War Brevet Brig. General
 * John Greene, Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War
 * John C. Greene (1926-2016), Deputy Surgeon General of the United States
 * John Edmund Greene (1894-1918), Canadian flying ace
 * Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), American general (and a name source for many US locations)
 * Philip H. Greene Jr. (fl. 1970s–2010s), U.S. Navy rear admiral
 * Samuel Greene (naval officer) (1839-1884), American naval officer
 * Theodore P. Greene (1809–1887), U.S. Navy rear admiral
 * Wallace Martin Greene Jr. (1907-2003), United States Marine Corps four-star general
 * William Cornell Greene (1851–1911), American soldier
 * William Hallett Greene (1864-1942), American soldier and meteorologist

Politics, law, and government

 * Alister Greene, American lawyer and society leader
 * Alvin Greene, American politician
 * Aurelia Greene, American politician
 * Ben Greene, British pacifist
 * Conyngham Greene (1854–1934), British diplomat, minister to Switzerland, Romania and Denmark and ambassador to Japan
 * George Greene, 19th-century Iowa Supreme Court justice
 * Harold H. Greene, U.S. district court justice
 * James Edward Greene, Liberian politician
 * Jehmu Greene, American politician
 * John Greene (settler), English co-founder of Warwick, Rhode Island
 * John Greene Jr., English colonial Deputy Governor of Rhode Island
 * Marjorie Taylor Greene, American politician
 * Moya Greene, Canadian civil servant, President and CEO of Canada Post
 * Nathan S. Greene, American politician
 * Thomas Alan "Tom" Greene, Louisiana politician and veterinarian
 * Walter S. Greene, American politician
 * Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene, British judge
 * William Greene (colonial governor), governor of Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
 * William Pomeroy Crawford Greene, English politician

Sciences

 * Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793–1862), American botanist
 * Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist and string theorist
 * Charles Ezra Greene, American civil engineer
 * Charles Wilson Greene, American physiologist and pharmacologist
 * Cordelia A. Greene (1831-1905), American physician
 * Edward Lee Greene (1843–1915), American botanist
 * Kevin Greene, British archaeologist
 * Margaret Cicely Langton Greene, British speech and language therapist
 * Victoria Greene, American physicist

Sports

 * Alan Greene, American diver
 * Alice Greene, British olympic tennis player
 * Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
 * Brandon Greene, American football player
 * Cathal Óg Greene, Irish Gaelic football player
 * Charles Greene (athlete), American sprinter
 * Charlie Greene (baseball), American baseball player
 * Charlie Greene (soccer), American soccer player
 * Conner Greene, American baseball player
 * David Greene, American football player
 * Donté Greene, American basketball player
 * Earnest Greene, American football player
 * Edward L. Greene, American athlete and coach
 * Hunter Greene (baseball), American baseball player
 * Hunter Greene (basketball), American basketball player
 * Joe Greene, American football player
 * Kai Greene, American bodybuilder
 * Keith Greene (1938–2021), British racing driver
 * Khalil Greene, American baseball player
 * Marcellus Greene, American football player
 * Matt Greene, American ice hockey player
 * Maurice Greene, American sprinter
 * Orien Greene, American basketball player
 * Raven Greene, American football player
 * Riley Greene, American baseball player
 * Russell Greene, Australian rules footballer
 * Serginho Greene, Dutch soccer player
 * Shane Greene, American baseball player
 * Shonn Greene, American football player
 * Toby Greene, American college baseball coach
 * Todd Greene, American baseball player
 * Vibert Greene, Barbadian cricketer

Writing and publishing

 * A. Wilson Greene, American historian and writer
 * Bette Greene, American writer
 * Bob Greene, American newspaper columnist
 * Cheryll Greene (1943–2013), American magazine editor and scholar
 * Gael Greene, American food critic
 * Graham Greene (1904–1991), English writer
 * Hugh Greene, British journalist and television executive
 * Jamal Greene, American legal scholar and Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
 * Katharine Greene (1731–1777), American diarist better known as Katharine Greene Amory
 * Melissa Fay Greene, American writer
 * Niamh Greene (born 1971), Irish novelist
 * Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592), English pamphleteer and dramatist
 * Robert Greene (American author) (born 1959), American author
 * Sarah Pratt McLean Greene (1856-1935), American writer
 * Sonia Greene (1883–1972), Ukrainian-American writer married to H. P. Lovecraft
 * Tilly Greene, American writer

Other

 * Anne Greene, known as Mary Gertrude, Irish-born Catholic sister in Australia
 * Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian to J. P. Morgan, and after his death the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library
 * Benjamin Greene (brewer), English businessman
 * Brendan Greene, Irish video game developer better known as PlayerUnknown
 * Catharine Littlefield Greene (1755–1814), wife of Nathanael Greene in colonial Rhode Island
 * Ettie Mae Greene, American supercentenarian
 * Evarts Boutell Greene, American historian
 * George Washington Greene, American historian
 * Mary Greene (nun) (1843–1933), Irish-born Catholic nun active in Canada
 * Maxine Greene, American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher
 * Vincent Graves Greene (1893–1988), Canadian philatelist
 * William Cornell Greene (1852–1911), American copper magnate

Fictional characters

 * Chuck Greene, one of the protagonist of the Dead Rising games.
 * Dominic Greene, villain in the film Quantum of Solace
 * Hillary Greene, in books by Faith Martin
 * Mark Greene, in the ER television series
 * Maggie Greene, Hershel Greene and Beth Greene, in The Walking Dead television series