# 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
* Henry Woodward (English actor) (1714–1777), English 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

### Science and academia
#### 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)

## Lists of people with the name Woodward
### 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)