Woodward (surname)

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
 * 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
 * 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

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 (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, 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

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)

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)