James Wood (governor)
James Wood (January 28, 1741June 16, 1813) was an officer of the U.S. Continental Army during the American Revolution and the 11th Governor of Virginia.
Early life
Born in Winchester Frederick County, Virginia. on January 28, 1741, Wood w ...
(1741–1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War
* James Wood (New York politician) (1820–1892), New York politician and Union Army general
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James Wood (Irish politician)
James Wood (17 July 1867 – 31 October 1936) was an Irish land refomer and, as a Russellite Unionist, was a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (MP) for East Down.
Supported by what the Unionist leader Edward Carson described as "an unholy ...
(1865–1936), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902–1906
* Jim Wood (California politician) (born 1960), member of the California State Assembly
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Jim Wood (Arkansas politician)
Jim Wood, an American politician, is a former State Auditor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, and is a former State Legislator. He served from 2003 to 2011.
Biography
Jim Wood was born in Newport, Arkansasbr> and attended elementary school in Tu ...
(fl. late 20th century), State Auditor of Arkansas
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Sebastian Wood
Sir James Sebastian Lamin Wood, (; born 6 April 1961), usually known by his middle name Sebastian, is a British diplomat who was the Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015,James Wood (footballer) (1893–?), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool
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Jamie Wood
Jamie Wood (born 21 September 1978) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was born in Salford, England and started his career as a youth player at Manchester United. Wood has represented the Cayman Islands internatio ...
(born 1978), footballer
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Jimmy Wood
James ("Jimmy") Leon Wood (December 1, 1842 – November 30, 1927) was an American second baseman and manager in early professional Major League Baseball (MLB) who hailed from Brooklyn, New York. He was the player-manager for four teams in the ...
Jim Wood (biathlete)
Jim Wood (13 October 1952 – 26 August 2020) was a British biathlete. He competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the 1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and ...
James Wood (mathematician)
James Wood (14 December 1760 – 23 April 1839) was a mathematician, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. In his later years he was Dean of Ely.
Life
Wood was born in Holcombe, Bury where his father ran an evening school and taught hi ...
(1760–1839), Dean of Ely 1820–1839
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James Wood (minister)
James Wood (1672–1759) was a Presbyterian minister of the first Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. During the Jacobite rising, he was given the title "the General" for leading a force of men that routed the ...
(1672–1759), Presbyterian minister of Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England
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James Frederick Wood
James Frederick Bryan Wood (April 27, 1813 – June 20, 1883) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fifth Ordinary (Catholic Church), Bishop and first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Archbishop of Philadelp ...
(1813–1883), Archbishop of Philadelphia
* James Julius Wood (1800–1877), Scottish minister
Military
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James Wood (Canadian admiral)
Vice Admiral James Crilly Wood (born 29 August 1934) is a retired Canadian Forces officer who served as Commander Maritime Command from 29 July 1983 to 3 July 1987.
Career
Wood joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1951.James Athol Wood
Sir James Athol Wood CB (1756 – July 1829), was an officer of the Royal Navy. After serving on merchant ships for the East India Company from a young age, he entered the Royal Navy in 1774. Wood served in the navy for almost his whole life, a ...
(1756–1829), British rear-admiral
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James W. Wood
James Wayne Wood (August 9, 1924 – January 1, 1990), ( Col, USAF), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
Early life and education
Wood was born on August 9, 192 ...
(1924–1990), U.S. Air Force colonel and senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar program
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Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet (died 1738) was a Scottish officer of the Dutch States Army and later the British Army.
He was the son of Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet, of Bonyngtoun in Forfarshire, by his wife Anne, daughter of James Ogilvy, 2nd Earl ...
(died 1738), Scottish officer of the Dutch States Army and later the British Army
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James Wood (Royal Navy officer) James or Jim Wood may refer to:
Politics and government
* James Wood (governor) (1741–1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War
* James Wood (New York politician) (1820–1892), New York politician and Union A ...
(died 1860), commander of HMS ''Pandora'' during its commission at the Royal Navy's Pacific Station
Others
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James Wood (musician)
James Wood (born 27 May 1953 in Barton-on-Sea, England) is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist.
Wood studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study m ...
(born 1953), British composer and percussionist
* James Wood (critic) (born 1965), British literary critic and novelist
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James Wood (encyclopaedist)
James Wood (12 October 1820 – 17 March 1901) was a Scottish writer, editor, and Free Church minister.Stirling 1902, pp.vii–viii
Life
Born in Leith, Wood studied at the University of Edinburgh and was ordained as a minister of the Free Chur ...
(1820–1901), British editor of ''The Nuttall Encyclopaedia''
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James Wood, Lord Irwin
Earl of Halifax is a title that has been created four times in British history—once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to Halifax, We ...
(born 1977), British courtesy peer
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James Edward Wood
James Edward Wood (born James Godwin; December 9, 1947 – February 1, 2004) was an American murderer, serial rapist and self-confessed serial killer. A violent sex offender with an extensive criminal record, Wood was convicted and sentenced to d ...
(1947–2004), American murderer
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James N. Wood James Nowell Wood (March 20, 1941 – June 11, 2010) was an American museum director who spent 25 years as head of the Art Institute of Chicago and later served as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust, starting in 2006.
Biography
Wood was born in ...
(1941–2010), American director of the Art Institute of Chicago
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James Roland Wood
The Honourable James Roland Tomson Wood AO, KC (born 1941) is the chairman of Law Reform Commission of New South Wales, the chairman of the New South Wales Sentencing Council, the Inspector of the Police Integrity Commission and a former jud ...
(born 1941), Australian Royal Commissioner and jurist
* James Rushmore Wood (1816–1882), American physician
* Jim Wood (fiddler) (born 1964), American fiddler
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James Wood (engineer) James J. Wood was an engineer who contributed to the development of lockmaking, the development of the submarine, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the design of the modern refrigerator. He fabricated the steel cables for the Brooklyn Bri ...
, American engineer
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James Wood Bush
James Wood Bush ( – April 24, 1906) was an American Union Navy sailor of British and Native Hawaiian descent. He was among a group of more than one hundred Native Hawaiian and Hawaii-born combatants in the American Civil War, at a time when th ...
(c. 1844–1906), Hawaiian-American Civil War combatant
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James Wood (screenwriter)
James Wood is a British screenwriter.
Wood is perhaps best known for his writing on the BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ''Decline and Fall'' and as a writer and creator of ''Quacks''. When asked how it felt to be the first to take on Waugh's ...