Greenwood

Greenwood is a term with many uses, particularly as a placename and a personal name:

Placenames

Malaysia

• Greenwood, Taman, a housing area just off the city of Kuala Lumpur

Australia

• Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth

Canada

• Greenwood (TTC), a station on the Bloor-Danforth line of the subway system in Toronto
• Greenwood, British Columbia
• Greenwood, Nova Scotia, a village
• Greenwood, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario
• Greenwood, Huron County, Ontario
• Greenwood, Renfrew County, Ontario
• Greenwood Raceway, a harness horse-racing track in Toronto

United States

• Greenwood, Arkansas, a city
• Greenwood, California
• Greenwood, Delaware, a town
• Greenwood, Florida, a town
• Greenwood, Illinois, a village
• Greenwood, Indiana, a city
• Greenwood, Louisiana, a town
• Greenwood, Maine, a town
• Greenwood, Minnesota, a city
• Greenwood, Mississippi, a city
• Greenwood, Missouri, a city
• Greenwood, Nebraska, a village
• Greenwood, New York, a town
• Greenwood, South Carolina, a city
• Greenwood, Tennessee, a place appearing on the List of Registered Historic Places in Tennessee
• Greenwood, Midland County, Texas
• Greenwood, Parker County, Texas
• Greenwood, Wise County, Texas
• Greenwood, Clark County, Wisconsin, a city
• Greenwood, Taylor County, Wisconsin, a town
• Greenwood, Vernon County, Wisconsin, a town
• Greenwood, Seattle, Washington, a neighborhood
• Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, a neighborhood
• Greenwood Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania
• Greenwood Lake, New York, a villiage
• Greenwood Museum, Smyrna, New York
• Greenwood Observatory, a telescope in Jenny Jump State Forest, New Jersey
• Greenwood Ridge, California
• Greenwood Springs, Mississippi
• Greenwood Village, Colorado, a city
• Mount Greenwood, Chicago

Names

• Al Greenwood, former keyboarder of the rock band Foreigner
• Anthony Greenwood, English Minister of Overseas Development (1965–1966)
• Arthur Greenwood (1880–1954), British politician
• Arthur H. Greenwood (1880–1963), American politician
• Bob Greenwood (1928–1994), Mexican Major League Baseball player
• Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian film actor
• Caleb Greenwood, trapper, guide, and early pioneer of the American West
• Charlotte Greenwood, actress from the 1910s to the 1950s
• Chester Greenwood (1858–1937), American inventor of earmuffs
• Clarence Greenwood, American musician, leader of the band Citizen Cope
• Clint Greenwood, founder of Clint Greenwood Soccer Academy and the "Greenwood Method"
• Colin Greenwood (born 1969), British musician, bassist for Radiohead (brother of Jonny Greenwood)
• Dick Greenwood (born 1940), English rugby footballer
• Don Greenwood, co-creator of the board game Age of Renaissance
• Ed Greenwood (born 1959), Canadian library clerk, inventor of the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting
• Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797–1843), American clergyman, pastor of King's Chapel, associate editor of the Christian Examiner
• Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), English journalist
• Greenwood LeFlore, an American Indian, Chief of the Choctaw tribe
• Harry Greenwood (1881–1948), English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sir Hamar Greenwood, Irish Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1920 to 1922
• Isaac Greenwood, mathematician (1702–1745), first chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard College
• Ivor Greenwood, Senator and Attorney General of Australia (1971, 1972, and 1975)
• James C. Greenwood (born 1951), American politician from the state of Pennsylvania
• James M. Greenwood (1836–?), American educator, late 19th century superintendent of schools in Kansas City, Missouri
• Joan Greenwood (1921-1987), British actress
• John Greenwood (died 1593), English Puritan and Separatist
• John Greenwood (1760-1819) (1760-1819), George Washington's dentist, the "Father of Modern Dentistry" and Revolutionary War patriot
• John Greenwood, pseudonym of John Buxton Hilton, British crime writer
• John DH Greenwood (1889–1975), English film score composer
• Jonny Greenwood (born 1971), English musician, guitarist for Radiohead (brother of Colin Greenwood)
• Joseph Greenwood, 19th century New Zealand politician and soldier
• Kathy Greenwood (born 1962), Canadian comedienne
• Kerry Greenwood, Australian author of the Phryne Fisher mystery series
• Lee Greenwood (born 1942), American singer and composer
• Leigh Greenwood, author
• Major Greenwood (1880–1949), English epidemiologist and statistician
• Miles Greenwood (1807–1885), manufacturer, established Eagle Ironworks, co-founder of Ohio Mechanics Institute
• Ron Greenwood (1921–2006), manager of the English national football team
• Theophilus Greenwood, brother of Chicago, Illinois mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth
• Thomas Greenwood, alias of Thomas Green, one of the Fourth Group of Carthusian Martyrs
• Trevor Greenwood, co-producer of Academy Award-winning Short Subject Documentary in 1967
• Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), English novelist
• Will Greenwood (born 1972), English rugby footballer, son of Dick Greenwood

Other uses

• Greenwood (band), an indie rock band, now known as Hope Dialect (external link)
• Greenwood Books, a publishing house
• Greenwood Logging Company
• Greenwood Press, a publishing house
• "Greenwood the Great", also known as Mirkwood, a fictional forest in JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth saga
• Greenwoods, an English law firm
• David Greenwood, a character from J. G. Ballard's Super-Cannes
• Deputy Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood, a regular cast character from the television show Gunsmoke
• Here is Greenwood, a Japanese manga and 1991 anime

See also

• Greenwood Cemetery
• Greenwood County
• Greenwood Township