Woodroffe is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *

Woodroffe (Surrey cricketer) Woodroffe is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Woodroffe (Surrey cricketer), English cricket player (first name unknown) * Alison Broinowski (née Woodroffe), Australian academic, journalist, writer and former diplomat * Colin Wood ...

, English cricket player (first name unknown) *

Alison Broinowski Alison Elizabeth Broinowski, ( Woodroffe; born 25 October 1941) is an Australian academic, journalist, writer and former Australian public servant. Biography Alison Woodroffe was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 25 October 1941. She atte ...

(née Woodroffe), Australian academic, journalist, writer and former diplomat *

Colin Woodroffe Colin D. Woodroffe is an Australasian geographer and coastal geomorphologist currently serving as professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong. He is the coordinator of the GeoQuEST Research Centre. His international research focuses on the ...

, Australian geographer and geomorphologist *

John Woodroffe Sir John George Woodroffe (15 December 1865 – 16 January 1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose extensive and complex published works on the Tantras, and other Hindu traditions, stimulated a wide-r ...

, British Orientalist *

Kenneth Woodroffe Kenneth Herbert Clayton Woodroffe (9 December 1892 − 13 May 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. He predominantly played his first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club as a fast bowler. He later ...

(1892–1915), English cricketer and soldier *

Martyn Woodroffe Martyn John Woodroffe (born 8 September 1950) is a Wales, Welsh swimming (sport), swimmer. Swimming career He won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics, 1968 Olympic Games. Woodroffe was born in Cardiff, Wales. He represented Wales at the ...

, Welsh swimmer who won a Silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games * Sir

Nicholas Woodroffe Sir Nicholas Woodroffe (Woodruff, Woodrofe, etc.) (1530–1598) was a London merchant of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, who, through the English Reformation, rose in the Alderman class to become a Master Haberdasher, Lord Mayor of Londo ...

, Lord Mayor of London in the Elizabethan period *

Patricia Woodroffe Patricia Louise Parkinson (née Woodroffe, 14 July 1926 – 5 August 2001) was a New Zealand fencer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1950 British Empire Games. Early life and family Born Patricia Louise Woodroffe on 14 July 1926 ...

, New Zealand fencer *

Patrick Woodroffe Patrick James Woodroffe (27 October 1940 – 10 May 2014) was an England, English artist, etcher and drawer, who specialised in Fantasy art, fantasy science-fiction artwork, with images that bordered on the surreal. His achievements include s ...

, English artist, specialising in fantasy & science-fiction artwork *

Paul Woodroffe Paul Vincent Woodroffe (25 January 1875 – 7 May 1954) was a British book illustrator and stained-glass artist. Early life Woodroffe was born in Madras (present-day Chennai), one of nine children of Francis Henry Woodroffe, a judge in the M ...

, British illustrator and stained glass artist *

Sidney Clayton Woodroffe Second Lieutenant Sidney Clayton Woodroffe VC (17 December 1895 − 30 July 1915) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that ...

, British V.C. awardee (World War I)

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