John Woods

John Woods may refer to:

Education

• John Woods (logician) (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 (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 (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 around Britain in the 1880s

Politics

• John Woods (Pennsylvania politician) (1761–1816), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• John Woods (Ohio politician) (1794–1855), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John M. Woods (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) (1895–1962), British civil servant

Sports

• John Thomas Archer Woods (active 1895–1896), English cricketer and footballer
• John Woods (baseball) (1898–1946), MLB player for the Boston Red Sox
• John Woods (athlete) (born 1955), Irish long-distance runner
• John Woods (footballer) (active 1954–1967), Scottish-Canadian footballer
• John Woods (rugby league) (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 (1900–1980), Australian doctor and soldier
• John C. Woods (1911–1950), American executioner at the Nuremberg Trials

See also

• Jon Woods (born 1977), U.S. politician from Arkansas
• Jon Woods (businessman) (born 1946), British computer game producer
• John Wood (disambiguation)