Sherwood (given name)

Sherwood is a masculine given name. Notable people with this name include:

• Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) American novelist and short story writer
• Sherwood Bailey (1923–1987), American child actor
• Sherwood Battle Brockwell (1885–1953), American fire marshal
• Sherwood Boehlert (1936–2021), American retired politician
• Sherwood Cryer (1927–2009), American entrepreneur
• Sherwood Eddy (1871–1963), American Protestant missionary, author, administrator and educator
• Sherwood Egbert (1920-1969), President of Studebaker-Packard Corporation and Studebaker Corporation from 1961 to 1963
• Sherwood Gorbach (born 1934), American medical academic
• Sherwood Guernsey (born 1946), Massachusetts state representative
• Sherry Magee (1884-1929), American Major League Baseball player
• Sherwood Schwartz (1916-2011), American television producer
• Sherwood Schwarz (1930–2023), American businessman, former owner of the Toronto Argonauts football team
• Sherwood Smith (born 1951), American fantasy and science fiction writer
• Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944), retired United States Army colonel and former NASA astronaut