Greenwood (surname)
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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.
Heptonstall
Heptonstall is a small village and civil parish within the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire, England. The population of Heptonstall, including the hamlets of Colden and Slack, is 1,448. The town of Hebden Bridge lies directly to the southeast...
in the metropolitan district of Calderdale
Calderdale
The Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, through which the upper part of the River Calder flows, and from which it takes its name...
in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
. It was the homestead of Wyomarus de Greenwode, believed to be the principal ancestor of British Greenwoods.
People with the surname Greenwood
- Al GreenwoodAl GreenwoodAlan Greenwood is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band, Foreigner from 1976 to 1980...
(born 1951), American keyboard player - Alfred B. GreenwoodAlfred B. GreenwoodAlfred Burton Greenwood was an attorney and a politician; he was elected to the United States and Confederate congresses as a Democrat. In 1859 he was appointed under President James Buchanan as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and resigned when Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861.-Career:He...
(1811-1889) American lawyer and politician - Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale (1911-1982), English politician
- Arthur GreenwoodArthur GreenwoodArthur Greenwood CH was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924...
(1880-1954), British politician - Arthur H. GreenwoodArthur H. GreenwoodArthur Herbert Greenwood was an United States Representative for Indiana for 2nd District from 1923–1933 and for the 7th District 1933–1939. Greenwood was defeated in 1938....
(1880-1963), American politician - Bob Greenwood (baseball) (1928-1994), Mexican Major League Baseball player
- Bobby GreenwoodBobby GreenwoodRobert Stanton Greenwood, Jr. is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour for seven years . He is a PGA of America Life Member....
(b.1938), American professional golfer (former PGA Tour Player) - Bruce GreenwoodBruce GreenwoodBruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor and musician. He is generally known for his roles as U.S. presidents in Thirteen Days and National Treasure: Book of Secrets and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film...
(born 1956), Canadian film actor - Caleb GreenwoodCaleb GreenwoodCaleb Greenwood was a Western U.S. fur trapper and trail guide. Born in Virginia, Greenwood took part in trapping expeditions organized by associates of John Jacob Astor in 1810 and by Manuel Lisa in 1812-1813...
, trapper, guide, and early pioneer of the American West - Charlotte GreenwoodCharlotte GreenwoodFrances Charlotte Greenwood was an American actress and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and eventually starred on Broadway, movies and radio. Standing around six feet tall, she was best known for her long legs and high kicks...
(1890-1977), American actress - Chester GreenwoodChester GreenwoodChester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15. He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating, and had his grandmother sew tufts of fur between loops of wire. His patent was for improved ear protectors...
(1858-1937), American inventor of earmuffs - Clarence Greenwood alias Citizen CopeCitizen CopeClarence Greenwood is an American songwriter and producer. His eclectic mix of blues, laid-back rock, soul, and folk has a large and profoundly dedicated following, built over the past decade of touring due to solid word of mouth....
, American musician - Colin GreenwoodColin GreenwoodColin Charles Greenwood , is an English musician and composer, best known as the bassist of the rock band Radiohead. Apart from bass, Colin plays keyboards, synthesizers and works on sampling on the electronic side of Radiohead...
(born 1969), British bassist for RadioheadRadioheadRadiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992... - Debbie GreenwoodDebbie GreenwoodDebbie Greenwood is a British television presenter and a former beauty queen who won the title of Miss Great Britain in 1984.-Career:...
, British television presenter - Dick GreenwoodDick GreenwoodJohn Richard Heaton Greenwood is a former rugby union international flanker, captain of Waterloo, Cambridge University, Lancashire and England as well as national coach...
(born 1940), English rugby footballer - Doctor GreenwoodDoctor GreenwoodDoctor Haydock Greenwood was an English footballer who played for Blackburn Rovers and made two appearances for England in 1882...
(1860 - 1951), Blackburn Rovers and England international footballer - Don GreenwoodDon GreenwoodDon Greenwood is a board game designer. He worked for Avalon Hill from 1972 to 1998 and has done work for GMT Games. He was editor of Panzerfaust Magazine from 1967 until 1972 and of The General Magazine from 1972 until 1982. He is the founder of the Origins, Avaloncon, and WBC gaming conventions...
, co-creator of the board game Age of RenaissanceAge of RenaissanceAge of Renaissance is a board game designed by Don Greenwood and Jared Scarborough and published by Avalon Hill in 1996. The game is for 3-6 players and the box claims that the game should take 2-6 hours to play, though as with any serious multiplayer strategy game, this can entirely depend on the... - Duncan GreenwoodDuncan GreenwoodDuncan Greenwood was an English playwright.His plays include "Cat among the Pigeons", "Murder Delayed" and "No Time for Figleaves".-External links:* at the Playwrights Database, doollee.com...
(1919–1992), English playwright - Ed GreenwoodEd GreenwoodEd Greenwood is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms. He invented the Forgotten Realms as a child, as a fantasy world in which to set the stories he imagined, and later used this world as a campaign setting for his own personal Dungeons & Dragons playing group...
(born 1959), Canadian library clerk, inventor of the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting - Frederick GreenwoodFrederick GreenwoodFrederick Greenwood , was an English journalist, editor, and man of letters.-Early years:He was one of three brothers — the others being James and Charles — who all gained reputation as journalists. Frederick started life in a printing house, but at an early age began to write in periodicals...
(1830-1909), English journalist - Greenwood LeFloreGreenwood LeFloreGreenwood LeFlore or Greenwood Le Fleur was elected Principal Chief of the Choctaw in 1830 before removal. Before that, the nation was governed by three district chiefs and a council of chiefs...
(1800-1865), an American Indian, Chief of the Choctaw tribe - Harry GreenwoodHarry GreenwoodLieutenant Colonel Harry Greenwood VC, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Greenwood was born in Windsor, the eldest of nine children...
(1881-1948), English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross - Ivor GreenwoodIvor GreenwoodIvor John Greenwood was an Australian politician and barrister.-Biography:Greenwood was born in North Melbourne and educated at Hartwell Central State School, Mont Albert Central State School, Scotch College and the University of Melbourne...
(1926-1976), Australian Senator and Attorney General (1971, 1972, and 1975) - James Greenwood (journalist) (1832–1929), British journalist and writer
- James C. GreenwoodJames C. GreenwoodJames Charles "Jim" Greenwood is an American politician in the Republican Party. He represented Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District for six terms in the United States House of Representatives....
(born 1951), American politician from the state of Pennsylvania - Joan GreenwoodJoan GreenwoodJoan Greenwood was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark...
(1921-1987), British actress - John Greenwood (Puritan), (died 1593), English Puritan and Separatist
- John Greenwood (dentist)John Greenwood (dentist)Dr. John Greenwood was George Washington's personal dentist and was responsible for designing Washington's famous dentures, which were not wood but carved from hippopotamus tusk. He invented the first known "dental foot engine" in 1790....
(1760–1819), George Washington's dentist, the "Father of Modern Dentistry" and Revolutionary War patriot - John D. H. GreenwoodJohn D. H. GreenwoodJohn Danforth Herman Greenwood , film composer, was the son of a New Zealander, Alfred Greenwood and his English-born wife Ottilie Rose Minna née Schweitzer...
, English composer of classical and film music - John Greenwood (artist)John Greenwood (artist)John Greenwood was an early American portrait painter and engraver.Greenwood was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1727. He apprenticed with Thomas Johnston, a sign painter and engraver from 1742 to 1745 where he copied various English works. Besides portraits, Greenwood painted many satirical works...
, colonial American artist - John Greenwood (bus operator)John Greenwood (bus operator)John Greenwood , transport entrepreneur, was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike. In 1824 he purchased a horse and a cart with several seats and began an omnibus service, probably the first one in the United Kingdom, between Pendleton and Manchester...
(died 1851), a pioneer of omnibus services in England - John Greenwood (executive)John Greenwood (executive)John Robert Greenwood was a British businessman and catering executive. He was chief executive of the RoadChef chain of motorway service stations from 2001 to 2004....
, (1950–2008) catering executive - John Greenwood (cricketer, born 1851)John Greenwood (cricketer, born 1851)John Greenwood was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Surrey. He was born in Epsom and died in Lewes....
(1851-1935), cricketer - John Greenwood (cricketer, born 1800)John Greenwood (cricketer, born 1800)John Greenwood was an English lawyer and cricketer, who played cricket for Cambridge University....
- Jonny GreenwoodJonny GreenwoodJonathan Richard Guy "Jonny" Greenwood is an English musician and composer, best known as a member of the English rock band Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but serves mainly as lead guitarist and keyboard player. In addition to guitar and keyboard, he plays viola, harmonica,...
(born 1971), musician and composer - John Greenwood, pseudonym of John Buxton HiltonJohn Buxton HiltonJohn Buxton Hilton was a British crime writer . Hilton was born in Buxton, Derbyshire. He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood...
, British crime writer - John DH Greenwood (1889-1975), English film score composer
- Jonny GreenwoodJonny GreenwoodJonathan Richard Guy "Jonny" Greenwood is an English musician and composer, best known as a member of the English rock band Radiohead. Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but serves mainly as lead guitarist and keyboard player. In addition to guitar and keyboard, he plays viola, harmonica,...
(born 1971), English guitarist for RadioheadRadioheadRadiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992... - Joseph GreenwoodJoseph GreenwoodJoseph Greenwood was a soldier and New Zealand politician. He joined the 31st Regiment of Foot in Bengal, India, where he greatly distinguished himself as a Lieutenant, under General George Pollock in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and wrote an account which was considered an authority on the...
(d. 1861), New Zealand politician and soldier - Kathy GreenwoodKathy GreenwoodKathryn "Kathy" Greenwood is a Canadian actress and comedienne. She appeared on the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? numerous times, and played Grace Bailey on the Canadian television drama series Wind at My Back....
(born 1962), Canadian comedienne - Kerry GreenwoodKerry GreenwoodKerry Greenwood is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as...
, Australian author of the Phryne FisherPhryne Fisher- External links :*...
mystery series - L. C. GreenwoodL. C. GreenwoodL.C. Henderson Greenwood is a former American football defensive end for the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers.-College career:...
(born 1946), American football player - Laura GreenwoodLaura GreenwoodLaura Greenwood is an English actress and a member of the YoungBlood Theatre Company in 2006.Greenwood's big breakthrough came in 2006 when at age 14 she starred as Penny Philips opposite Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect The Final Act, the two-part conclusion to ITV's long-running series...
(born 1991), English actress - Lee GreenwoodLee GreenwoodMelvin Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than 35 singles on the Billboard country music charts....
(born 1942), American singer and composer - Major GreenwoodMajor GreenwoodMajor Greenwood FRS was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there...
(1880–1949), English epidemiologist and statistician - Morlon GreenwoodMorlon GreenwoodMorlon O'Neil Greenwood is an American football linebacker for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft...
(born 1978), American footballer - Paul GreenwoodPaul Greenwood (money manager)Paul Greenwood is a money manager accused of securities fraud with business partner Stephen Walsh and was arrested with Walsh on February 24, 2009...
(born 1947), accused of securities fraud - Ron Greenwood (1921-2006), manager of the English national football team
- Ross Greenwood (footballer)Ross Greenwood (footballer)Ross Michael Greenwood is an English footballer, currently playing for Gainsborough Trinity.-Biography:Greenwood was born in York and grew up in the village of Copmanthorpe...
(1985–), English footballer - Ross Greenwood (journalist) (19??–), Australian journalist
- Walter GreenwoodWalter GreenwoodWalter Greenwood was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel Love on the Dole .-Biography:...
(1903-1974), English novelist - Will GreenwoodWill GreenwoodWilliam John Heaton "Will" Greenwood, MBE is an English former rugby union footballer of the 1990s and 2000s.-Career:...
(born 1972), English rugby footballer, son of Dick Greenwood
Fictional
- David Greenwood, a character from J. G. Ballard's Super-CannesSuper-CannesSuper-Cannes is a novel by the British author J. G. Ballard, published in 2000. It picks up on the same themes as his earlier Cocaine Nights, and has often been called a companion piece to that book.-Plot summary:...
- Deputy Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood, a regular cast character from the television show GunsmokeGunsmokeGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
- Esther Greenwood, main character from Sylvia Plath's The Bell JarThe Bell JarThe Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed...