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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) Professor John David Woods, CBE (born 1939) is a British oceanographer. He studied physics at Imperial College, London (1958–66), after which he was appointed principal research fellow at the Meteorological Office (1966–72), while leading the ...

(born 1939), British professor of oceanography *

John E. Woods (historian) John E. Woods is a Professor Emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian History in the Departments of History and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. John Woods received his B.A. from the Universit ...

(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 (1849–1934), composer of music for national anthem of New Zealand *

Johnny Silvo Johnny Silvo (born John Frederick Woods; 2 December 1936 – 19 December 2011) was a British folk and blues singer. Biography Born in 1936, Silvo started his career playing skiffle and jazz and singing solo in nightclubs. When the folk scene ...

(John Woods, 1936–2011), British folk and blues singer * John Levene (born John Woods in 1941), British actor * John Woods, a Scottish showman who exhibited the

Tay Whale The Tay Whale, known locally as the Monster, was a humpback whale that swam into the Firth of Tay of eastern Scotland in 1883. It was harpooned in a hunt, but escaped, and was found floating dead off Stonehaven a week later. It was towed into ...

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 John M. Woods (October 22, 1839 – April 10, 1927) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature and as the fourteenth Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts. Woods was a delegate to ...

(1839–1927), American politician in Massachusetts * John Woods (Australian politician) (1822–1892), Minister of Railways in colonial Victoria * John Woods (Canadian politician) (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) (1907–1965), English footballer in the 1930s

Other

* John Crawford Woods (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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