Top Celebrity Names Starting With Woody

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   Woody Allen

   Age 76 Male
   

   Actor, Writer, and Director

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   Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright. He is also a jazz clarinetist who performs regularly at small venues in Manhattan.

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   Woody Harrelson

   Age 50 Male
   

   Actor

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   Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor. Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd. Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump, bowler Roy Munson in Kingpin, serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs.… read more

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   Woody Guthrie

   1912 - 1967 Male
   

   Singer Songwriter

   
   

   Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land". Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress.… read more

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   Woody Jenkins

   Age 65 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Louis Elwood "Woody" Jenkins is a newspaper editor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972–2000 and waged three unsuccessful races for the United States Senate.… read more

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   Woody Shaw

   1944 - 1989 Male
   

   Trumpeter, Composer, Musician

   
   

   Woody Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader, often referred to as the "last innovator" in the jazz trumpet lineage. Shaw is credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic vocabulary of the instrument and is considered one of the great jazz composers and band leaders of the twentieth century.… read more

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   Woody Herman

   1913 - 1987 Male
   

   Bandleader, Clarinetist, Alto

   
   

   Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders. His bands often played music that was experimental for their time. He was a featured halftime performer for Super Bowl VII.… read more

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   Woody Johnson

   Age 65 Male
   

   Businessman, Owner, Philanthropist

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   Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I, and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.

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   Woody Strode

   1914 - 1994 Male
   

   Football Player and Actor

   
   

   Woodrow Wilson Woolwine "Woody" Strode was a decathlete and football star who went on to become a pioneering black American film actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960. He served in the US Army during World War II.… read more

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   Woody Hayes

   1913 - 1987 Male
   

   Football Player and Coach

   
   

   Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Denison University (1946–1948), Miami University (1949–1950), and Ohio State University (1951–1978), compiling a career college football record of 238–72–10.… read more

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    Woody Woodpecker

    Male
    

    
    

    Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. Though not the first of the screwball characters that became popular in the 1940s, Woody is perhaps the most indicative of the type.… read more

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    Woody Kling

    1925 - 1988 Male
    

    Television Writer, Producer, Composer

    
    

    Woody Kling was an American television writer, producer, playwright, and composer.

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    Woody Freeman

    Age 65 Male
    

    Businessman, Campaigner, Incumbent

    
    

    Elwood A. Freeman, known as Woody Freeman, is a businessman in Jonesboro, Arkansas, who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1984. He lost 63-37 percent to the incumbent Governor Bill Clinton, the Democrat who eight years later was elected President of the United States. Freeman was the third of four Republicans who Clinton dispatched in his five successful races for governor. Freeman is the son of Elwood A.… read more

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    Woody Brown

    1912 - 2008 Male
    

    Surfer, Swimmer

    
    

    Woody "Spider" Brown (1912–2008) was a surfer and designer notable for introducing modern surfing to America and for the invention of the modern catamaran. “ Sad as anyone passing is, what a joyous life. ”… read more

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    Woody Abernathy

    1908 - 1961 Male
    

    Baseball Player

    
    

    Thomas Woodley "Woody" Abernathy was a professional baseball player whose career spanned 13 seasons in minor league baseball.