# 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 #Writing and publishing
* 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
* Edward B. Greene (1878—1957), American banker and mining company executive
* 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