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Variations of the name include the surnames Woodd, Woode, Woods, Wod, and Wode. [2] The equivalent name in German is Wald, and in many cases, emigrants from the German-speaking countries Anglicized this name to Wood when they settled in countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, et cetera.
John George Wood (1827–1889), British natural history writer; John Graeme Wood (1933–2007), veteran of the British far right and member of the British Peoples Party; John H. Wood Jr. (1916–1979), U.S. federal judge; John Henry Wood (1841–1914), English entomologist; John J. Wood (1784–1874), U.S. Representative from New York
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Abraham Wood (1610–1682), sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" Wood, was an English fur trader, militia officer, politician and explorer of 17th century colonial Virginia. Wood helped build and maintained Fort Henry at the falls of the Appomattox in present-day Petersburg .
Excluded from this history were 'natural children', mixed-race descendants of unions with slaves. Families often used surnames as given names, as in the "Johns" of Johns Hopkins University, or where a surname might die out because the last holder only had daughters, Cole Digges was the grandson of William Cole.
Bambi Woods (born 1955), American pornographic actress; Barbara Alyn Woods (born c. 1965), American actress; Belita Woods (1948–2012), lead singer of R&B groups, Brainstorm and Parliament-Funkadelic
Wood hoped to forge a direct trading connection with the Cherokee to bypass the Occaneechi people in Virginia, who acted as middlemen on the Trading Path. The two Virginia colonists likely made contact with the Cherokee. Wood called the people Rickohockens in his book of the expedition. The map accompanying the book, showed the Rickohockens ...
Georgia Tech President Blake R. Van Leer. Carlos Valdes, actor and singer; Blake R. Van Leer, President of Georgia Tech, the first to admit women and fought against segregationist Governor Griffin; Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, artist and architect, women's rights activist; Fernando Velasco, football player; born in New York