Greenwood (surname)

Greenwood
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	English
Word/name	Greenwood, Heptonstall
Meaning	"green wood"
Other names
Variant form(s)	Greenwode

Greenwood is a British 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 British Greenwoods, though some claim to be of French descent.^[1]

Surname

Al Greenwood (born 1951), American keyboard player
Alex Greenwood (disambiguation), several people
Alfred B. Greenwood (1811–1889), American lawyer and politician
Alice Greenwood (1862–1935), British historian, teacher and writer
Arthur Greenwood (1880–1954), British politician
Arthur H. Greenwood (1880–1963), American politician
Bob Greenwood (baseball) (1928–1994), Mexican Major League Baseball player
Bobby Greenwood (golfer) (born 1938), American golfer
Bobby Greenwood (American football) (born 1987), American football offensive tackle
Sir Brian Greenwood (born 1938), British physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school professor
Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian film actor
Caleb Greenwood, trapper, guide, and early pioneer of the American West
Charlotte Greenwood (1890–1977), American actress
Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), American inventor of earmuffs
Christopher (1786–1855) and John Greenwood (fl. 1821–1840), English cartographers
Clarence Greenwood alias Citizen Cope, American musician
Colin Greenwood (rugby), South African rugby footballer
Colin Greenwood (born 1969), British bassist for Radiohead
Debbie Greenwood, British television presenter
David Greenwood (born 1957), American basketball player
Dick Greenwood (born 1940), English rugby union footballer
Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), Blackburn Rovers and England international footballer
Don Greenwood (disambiguation), several people
Duncan Greenwood (1919–1992), English playwright
Ed Greenwood (born 1959), Canadian library clerk, inventor of the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting
Elizabeth W. Greenwood (1849–1922), American social reformer
Elizabeth Greenwood (1873 – 1961), New Zealand photographer
F. W. P. Greenwood (1797-1843), American minister
Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), English journalist
Grace Greenwood (1905–1979), also known as Grace Greenwood Ames and Grace Crampton, an American artist, social realist artist and muralist.
Grace Greenwood, a pseudonym for Sara Jane Lippincott (1823–1904), American writer
Harry Greenwood (1881–1948), English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Harry Greenwood (actor), Australian stage and film actor
Humphry Greenwood (1927-1995), English ichthyologist
Irene Greenwood (1898-1992), Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist
Ivor Greenwood (1926–1976), Australian Senator and Attorney General (1971, 1972, and 1975)
Jack Greenwood (soccer player) (born 1999), Australian soccer player
James Greenwood (journalist) (1832–1929), British journalist and writer
James C. Greenwood (born 1951), American politician from the state of Pennsylvania
Janinka Greenwood, Czech–New Zealand educator, playwright and poet
Joan Greenwood (1921–1987), British actress
John Greenwood (Puritan), (died 1593), English Puritan and Separatist
John Greenwood (dentist) (1760–1819), George Washington's dentist, the "Father of Modern Dentistry" and Revolutionary War patriot
John Greenwood (composer), English composer of classical and film music
John Greenwood (artist), colonial American artist
John Greenwood (bus operator) (died 1851), a pioneer of omnibus services in England
John Greenwood (executive) (1950–2008), catering executive
John Greenwood (cricketer, born 1851) (1851–1935), cricketer
John Greenwood (lawyer) (1800–1871), English lawyer and sportsman
John Greenwood, pseudonym of John Buxton Hilton, British crime writer
John Greenwood (MP), (1824-1874), British politician
Jonathan Greenwood (born 1968), British businessman
Jonny Greenwood (born 1971), musician and composer, most notable as a member of Radiohead
Joseph Greenwood (died 1861), New Zealand politician and soldier
Kathy Greenwood (born 1962), Canadian comedian
Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of the Phryne Fisher mystery series
Kyle Greenwood (born 1987), Canadian professional wrestler better known as Kyle O'Reilly
L. C. Greenwood (1946–2013), American football player
Laura Greenwood (born 1991), English actress
Lee Greenwood (born 1942), American singer and composer
Leonard Greenwood (classicist) (1880–1965), New Zealander classical scholar
Leonard Greenwood (cricketer) (1899–1982), English cricketer and schoolteacher
Lisa Greenwood (born 1955), New Zealand novelist
Major Greenwood (1880–1949), English epidemiologist and statistician
Makayla Greenwood, American taekwondo practitioner
Marion Greenwood (1909–1970), American social realist muralist, painter and printmaker
Marvin I. Greenwood (1840–1917), American lawyer and politician
Mason Greenwood (born 2001), English footballer
Merle Greenwood (1900-1990), Australian-born New Zealand architect
Morlon Greenwood (born 1978), American footballer
Nick Greenwood (born 1987), American Baseball player
Nimrod Greenwood (1929–2016), Australian rower
Norman Greenwood (1925–2012), Australian-British chemist
Paul Greenwood (money manager) (born 1947), accused of securities fraud
Peter Greenwood (1962–2021), Australian actor
Randall Greenwood, American politician
Robin Greenwood, American economist
Ron Greenwood (1921–2006), manager of the England national football team
Ross Greenwood (footballer) (born 1985), English footballer
Ross Greenwood (journalist) (born 1959), Australian journalist
Sam Greenwood (poker player) (born 1988), Canadian professional poker player
Sam Greenwood (footballer) (born 2002), English footballer
Sarah Greenwood (born 1960), English production designer
Sarah Greenwood (artist) (1809–1889), New Zealand pioneer
Sina Greenwood, New Zealand mathematician
Thomas Greenwood (activist) (1908–1988), American labor and Indian affairs activist
Thomas Greenwood (historian) (1790–1871), English barrister and academic
Thomas Greenwood (publisher) (1851–1908), English publisher
Thomas B. Greenwood (1872–1946), Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
Thomas E. Greenwood (1859–1934), Canadian farmer, grain dealer and political figure
Tom Greenwood (bishop) (1903–1974), Canadian Anglican bishop
Tom Greenwood (footballer) (1889–1935), Australian rules footballer
Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), English novelist
Will Greenwood (born 1972), English rugby union 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
Esther Greenwood, main character from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
Annie and Glen Greenwood, Jesse's foster parents in Free Willy

Given name

Greenwood LeFlore (1800–1865), an American Indian, Chief of the Choctaw tribe

Peerages

Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood (1870–1948), British noble
Tony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale (1911–1982), English politician

References

^ Some modern Greenwoods can trace their name back to the French Boisvert, which is a literal translation of green and wood. Greenwood, Frederick (1914). "Chapter 3: English History of the Family and Origin of the Name". Greenwood genealogies, 1154-1914 : the ancestry and descendants of Thomas Greenwood of Newton Massachusetts, Nathaniel and Samuel Greenwood of Boston, Massachusetts, John Greenwood of Virginia, and many later arrivals in America, also the early history of the Greenwoods in England, and the arms they used. New York: The Lyons Genealogical Company. pp. 15–23.

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[1] Some modern Greenwoods can trace their name back to the French Boisvert, which is a literal translation of green and wood. Greenwood, Frederick (1914). "Chapter 3: English History of the Family and Origin of the Name". Greenwood genealogies, 1154-1914 : the ancestry and descendants of Thomas Greenwood of Newton Massachusetts, Nathaniel and Samuel Greenwood of Boston, Massachusetts, John Greenwood of Virginia, and many later arrivals in America, also the early history of the Greenwoods in England, and the arms they used. New York: The Lyons Genealogical Company. pp. 15–23.

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