John Woods may refer to:

Education

John Woods (logician) John Hayden Woods (born 1937) is a Canadian logician and philosopher. He currently holds the position of Director of the Abductive Systems Group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is The UBC Honorary Professor of Logic. He is also af ...

(born 1937), Canadian professor of logic * John Woods (oceanographer) (born 1939), British professor of oceanography * John E. Woods (historian) (active since 1970), American professor of Iranian and Central Asian history *

John E. Woods (translator) John Edwin Woods is an American translator who specializes in translating German literature, since about 1978. His work includes much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph ...

(active since 1978), translator of literature from German to English

Entertainment

John Joseph Woods John Joseph Woods (1849 – 9 June 1934) was a New Zealand teacher and songwriter. He is best known for winning a competition to set "God Defend New Zealand", a poem by Thomas Bracken, to music. By doing this, he composed the tune to what l ...

(1849–1934), composer of music for national anthem of New Zealand * Johnny Silvo (John Woods, 1936–2011), British folk and blues singer *

John Levene John Levene (born John Anthony Woods; 24 December 1941) is an English actor, producer, entertainer and singer. Although he has appeared in a large number of films and television series, Levene's best-known role is that of Sergeant Benton, of UNI ...

(born John Woods in 1941), British actor * John Woods, a Scottish showman who exhibited the Tay Whale around Britain in the 1880s

Politics

John Woods (Pennsylvania politician) John Woods, (1761, Bedford, Pennsylvania – December 16, 1816, Brunswick County, Virginia) was a Pennsylvania politician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate and in the United States House of Representatives. He was the son of Colonel ...

(1761–1816), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania *

John Woods (Ohio politician) John Woods (October 18, 1794 – July 30, 1855) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Woods moved with his parents to Ohio, where he attended the common schools. As a young man, he served in the War of 1812. A ...

(1794–1855), U.S. Representative from Ohio * John M. Woods (1839–1927), American politician in Massachusetts *

John Woods (Australian politician) John Woods (5 November 1822 – 2 April 1892) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), Minister of Railways. Woods was the second son of Richard Woods, a Liverpool railwayman, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Cave. After being trained as ...

(1822–1892), Minister of Railways in colonial Victoria *

John Woods (Canadian politician) John Woods (February 20, 1876 – June 15, 1957) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or ...

(1876–1957), in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick *

John Woods (civil servant) Sir John Harold Edmund Woods, GCB, MVO (20 April 1895 – 2 December 1962) was a senior British civil servant. He was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Production from 1943 to 1945, and to the Board of Trade from 1945 to 1951. He was ther ...

(1895–1962), British civil servant

Sports

John Thomas Archer Woods John Thomas Archer Wood ( – 1954) was an English footballer who played right wing for Old Castle Swifts before joining Thames Ironworks, the team that became West Ham United, in their very first season of 1895–96. Woods is featured in Th ...

(active 1895–1896), English cricketer and footballer *

John Woods (baseball) John Fulton Woods (January 18, 1898 – October 4, 1946) was a professional baseball pitcher and police officer. He appeared in one game in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox during the 1924 season. Listed at , . During his ...

(1898–1946), MLB player for the Boston Red Sox *

John Woods (athlete) John Woods (born 8 December 1955) is an Irish long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as S ...

(born 1955), Irish long-distance runner *

John Woods (footballer) John Woods is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as an inside forward. Career After playing for Pollok, Woods signed for Rangers at the age of 15, and made one appearance for them in the Scottish Football League during the 1 ...

(active 1954–1967), Scottish-Canadian footballer *

John Woods (rugby league) John Woods is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Leigh ( Heritage ...

(born 1956), English footballer 1970s–1990s, coached in the 1980s *

Jack Woods (rugby league) John Tesseyman Woods (4 September 1907 – 7 April 1965), also known by the nickname of "Tank", was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and ...

(1907–1965), English footballer in the 1930s

Other

John Crawford Woods John Crawford Woods (8 April 1824 – 10 May 1906), generally referred to as J. Crawford Woods, was the first minister of the Adelaide Unitarian Christian Church, South Australia, serving from 1855 to 1889. History Woods was born in Woodville, a m ...

(1824–1906), Australian minister *

John Grieve Woods John Grieve Woods (17 January 1900 – 27 April 1980) was an Australian general practitioner and soldier. Woods was born in Albury, New South Wales and died in Newcastle, New South Wales. He was the son of Dr. William Cleaver Woods, the noted pion ...

(1900–1980), Australian doctor and soldier *

John C. Woods John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenc ...

(1911–1950), American executioner at the Nuremberg Trials

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