Woods (surname)
Woods is a common surname of English, Scottish and Irish origin.
People with this surname
- Aaron Woods, Australian rugby league footballer
- Al Woods , American football player
- Alan Woods, various people, including:
- Albert Woods, English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
- Albert H. Woods, born Aladore Herman, American theatrical producer
- Alice Woods, British educationist
- Andrew Woods
- Aubrey Woods, English actor
- Ayiesha Woods, contemporary Christian musician
- Bambi Woods, American pornographic actress
- Barbara Alyn Woods, American actress
- Belita Woods, lead singer of R&B groups, Brainstorm and Parliament-Funkadelic
- Ben Woods, rugby union footballer
- Bill Woods, Australian television journalist
- Bill Woods , Australian rules footballer
- Billy Woods , Irish semi-professional footballer
- Billy Woods, New Zealand international football player
- Billy Woods, American hip-hop artist
- Bobby Wayne Woods, American rapist, kidnapper and murderer
- Brian Woods, several people including:
- Calum Woods, English footballer
- Charles Woods, several people including:
- Chris Woods, several people, including:
- Christie Lee Woods, American model and actress
- Christine Woods, American actress in the HBO series Hello Ladies
- Clare Woods , British artist
- Clinton Woods, British professional boxer
- Clinton Edgar Woods, electrical, mechanical engineer and automotive engineer
- Danny Woods, American singer
- Dean Woods, Australian racing cyclist
- D. J. Woods, American gridiron player
- Don Woods , NFL footballer
- Don Woods , American meteorologist and cartoonist
- Don Woods , computer games programmer
- Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
- Donald Woods , Canadian-American film and television actor
- Donald Devereux Woods, British microbiologist
- E. J. Woods architect in South Australia
- Earl Woods US Army officer, father of Tiger Woods
- Edward Woods, American actor
- Edward Woods , British civil engineer
- Frederick S. Woods, American mathematician
- Fronza Woods, American filmmaker
- George Woods, various including:
- * George David Woods, USA banker and World Bank President
- * George Lemuel Woods, USA Oregon State and Utah Territory governor
- Georgie Woods, American radio personality
- Grant Woods, Attorney General of Arizona 1991–1999
- Granville Woods, African-American inventor of tram and railway equipment
- Harriett Woods, American politician and activist
- Harry Woods, various including:
- * Harry Woods , New South Wales Labor politician
- * Harry Woods , English footballer
- Henry Woods, various including:
- Ickey Woods, NFL footballer
- Ilene Woods Jacqueline Ruth Woods, American actress and singer, voice of Disney's Cinderella
- Jake Woods, American baseball pitcher
- James Woods, several people including:
- Jerome Woods, NFL football player with Kansas City Chiefs
- Jessie E. Woods, one of first American woman pilots
- John E. Woods, American translator of German literature
- John Joseph Woods, composer of music for national anthem of New Zealand
- John Woods, real name John Levene, British actor in Dr. Who TV series
- John Crawford Woods, first minister of the Unitarian Church of Adelaide, South Australia
- Jon Woods, American politician, record producer and musician
- Joseph Woods, several people including:
- Josh Woods , American football player
- Kate Woods, Australian film and television director
- Kristine Woods, American sculptor and textile artist
- Lebbeus Woods, American architect and artist known unconventional designs
- Leonard Woods was an American theologian, supporter of orthodox Calvinism
- Leonard Woods , fourth president of Bowdoin College
- Loren Woods, American-Lebanese professional basketball player
- Louis E. Woods, aviator with American Marine Corps
- Margaret Louisa Woods, English writer, married Henry George Woods
- Marjorie Curry Woods, American historian
- Mark Kenneth Woods, Canadian comedy writer, actor, producer, director and TV host.
- Martin Woods,, Scottish footballer.
- Mary Lee Woods
- Mehitable E. Woods, hero of the American Civil War
- Michael Woods, various including:
- Mimi Woods American voice actress known primarily for voice-overs in Japanese anime
- Nan Woods American actress in the ABC television series China Beach
- Ngaire Woods, New Zealand-born founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at University of Oxford
- Nic Woods Nicholas Woods, New Zealand field hockey player
- Paul Woods, Canadian ice hockey player, later color commentator for Detroit Red Wings of NHL
- Pauline Nakamarra Woods, Australian indigenous painter
- Pete Woods, American comic book artist
- Peter Woods various people, including
- Phil Woods, jazz saxophonist
- Pinky Woods Philip Wells Woods, American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer
- Qyntel Woods Qyntel Deon Woods, American professional basketball player
- Randy Woods Randolph Woods, American professional basketball player
- Rashaun Woods, pro football player
- Ray Woods, American college basketball standout for Illinois in the 1910s
- Ray Woods , footballer with Tranmere Rovers, Wigan Athletic, Coventry City and Shrewsbury Town
- Renn Woods, American film, television and stage actress, vocalist and songwriter
- Robert Woods, various people including:
- Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon's secretary from 1951, through the end of his political career
- Samuel Woods
- Sean Woods, American basketball player and coach
- Shelly Woods Rochelle "Shelly" Woods, British woman wheelchair racer competed in two Paralympic Games
- Simon Woods, English actor in the British-American TV series Rome and the BBC1 series Cranford
- Skip Woods, American screenwriter, producer and film director
- Sparky Woods, American football coach
- Stacey Grenrock-Woods, American writer, actress, and correspondent on The Daily Show
- Stanley Woods, Irish motorcycle racer in the 1920s and 1930s
- Steve Woods Stephen John Woods, English footballer with Chesterfield, Plymouth Argyle, Stoke City and Torquay United
- Stevie Woods , American singer
- Stuart Woods, American novelist
- Sydney Woods, merchant and politician in Newfoundland
- Sydney S. Woods Sidney Sterling Woods, American fighter ace of World War II
- Symere Woods, American rapper known professionally as Lil Uzi Vert
- Taryn Woods, Australian woman water polo player
- Terry Woods Terence Woods, Irish folk musician
- Thomas Woods various people including:
- Tiger Woods, American golfer
- Tim Woods real name George Burrell Woodin, American professional wrestler
- Tony Woods, Australian rules footballer
- Tyler Woods, American singer-songwriter
- Tyrone Woods Walter Tyrone Woods, professional baseball player with Nippon
- Tyrone S. Woods Tyrone Snowden Woods, American CIA security officer killed in 2012 Benghazi attack
- Vincent Woods, Irish poet, playwright and RTÉ Radio 1 arts show host
- Wendy Woods, South African educator and anti-apartheid activist
- William Woods several people, including
- Xavier Woods, ring name of American professional wrestler Austin Watson
- Xavier Woods , American football player
Institutions
- William Woods University, in Fulton, Missouri US, named for a benefactor
Fictional characters
- Alexx Woods, on CSI: Miami
- Babs Woods, on the British soap opera Family Affairs
- Dawn Woods, on the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale
- Elle Woods, in the novel, film and Broadway adaptation Legally Blonde
- Nancy Woods, in Archie Comics
- Penny Gordon Woods, in the American sitcom Good Times
- T.J. Woods, on the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale
- Tanya Woods, on the British soap opera Family Affairs
- Terry Woods, self explanatory
- Twin Woods, in Nintendo's Kirby series of video game
- Whispy Woods, in Nintendo's Kirby series of video game
- Willona Woods, in the American sitcom Good Times