GREENWOOD (SURNAME)

'Greenwood' is an English surname, believed to be derived from the Greenwood or Greenwode settlement near Heptonstall in the metropolitan district of Calderdale in West Yorkshire. It was the homestead of Wyomarus de Greenwode, believed to be the principal ancestor of English Greenwoods.[1]

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People with the surname Greenwood
Fictional
Footnotes

People with the surname Greenwood



Al Greenwood, former keyboarder of the rock band Foreigner

Anthony Greenwood, English Minister of Overseas Development (1965–1966)

Arthur Greenwood (1880–1954), British politician

Arthur H. Greenwood (1880–1963), American politician

Bob Greenwood (1928–1994), Mexican Major League Baseball player

Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian film actor

Caleb Greenwood, trapper, guide, and early pioneer of the American West

Charlotte Greenwood, actress from the 1910s to the 1950s

Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), American inventor of earmuffs

★ Clarence Greenwood, American musician, leader of the band Citizen Cope

Clint Greenwood, founder of Clint Greenwood Soccer Academy and the "Greenwood Method"

Colin Greenwood (born 1969), British musician, bassist for Radiohead (brother of Jonny Greenwood)

Dick Greenwood (born 1940), English rugby footballer

Don Greenwood, co-creator of the board game ''Age of Renaissance''

Ed Greenwood (born 1959), Canadian library clerk, inventor of the ''Forgotten Realms'' ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting

Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797–1843), American clergyman, pastor of King's Chapel, associate editor of the ''Christian Examiner''

Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), English journalist

Greenwood LeFlore, an American Indian, Chief of the Choctaw tribe

Harry Greenwood (1881–1948), English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross

Sir Hamar Greenwood, Irish Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1920 to 1922

Hunphry Greenwood (1927–1995), ichithyolist

Isaac Greenwood, mathematician (1702–1745), first chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard College

Ivor Greenwood, Senator and Attorney General of Australia (1971, 1972, and 1975)

Jack Greenwood, (born 1926)Track and field athlete, world record holder in many Masters, over 40 yrs old, catigories. Inducted into the Track And Field Hall of fame, Masters Division.

James C. Greenwood (born 1951), American politician from the state of Pennsylvania

James M. Greenwood (1836–?), American educator, late 19th century superintendent of schools in Kansas City, Missouri

Joan Greenwood (1921-1987), British actress

John Greenwood (died 1593), English Puritan and Separatist

John Greenwood (1760-1819) (1760-1819), George Washington's dentist, the "Father of Modern Dentistry" and Revolutionary War patriot

★ John Greenwood, pseudonym of John Buxton Hilton, British crime writer

John DH Greenwood (1889–1975), English film score composer

John Ormerod Greenwood (1907–1989), Quaker

Jonny Greenwood (born 1971), English musician, guitarist for Radiohead (brother of Colin Greenwood)

Joseph Greenwood, 19th century New Zealand politician and soldier

Kathy Greenwood (born 1962), Canadian comedienne

Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of the Phryne Fisher mystery series

Lee Greenwood (born 1942), American singer and composer

Leigh Greenwood, author

Major Greenwood (1880–1949), English epidemiologist and statistician

Miles Greenwood (1807–1885), manufacturer, established Eagle Ironworks, co-founder of Ohio Mechanics Institute

N. N. Greenwood, author of ''Chemistry of the Elements''

Ron Greenwood (1921–2006), manager of the English national football team

Ross Greenwood (footballer) (1985–), English footballer

Ross Greenwood (journalist) (19??–), Australian journalist

Theophilus Greenwood, brother of Chicago, Illinois mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth

★ Thomas Greenwood, alias of Thomas Green, one of the Fourth Group of Carthusian Martyrs

★ Thomas B. Greenwood, American residential and commercial architect.

Trevor Greenwood, co-producer of Academy Award-winning Short Subject Documentary in 1967

Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), English novelist

Will Greenwood (born 1972), English rugby footballer, son of Dick Greenwood
Fictional


★ David Greenwood, a character from J. G. Ballard's ''Super-Cannes''

★ Deputy Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood, a regular cast character from the television show ''Gunsmoke''

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