Woodward (surname)
Woodward is a surname.
People with the name
Notable people with the name Woodward include: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