Leadership

• Sherwood H. Smith, Jr.
  • CEO of Fortune 500 company Carolina Power & Light (see list of 1996 Fortune 500 Company CEOs)

Science and Philosophy

• F. Sherwood Roland

  American scientist known for his studies of aerosol products and their effect on the ozone layer.

  • 1995 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, with Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
• Sherwood C. Spring

  NASA astronaut.

  • Astronaut on Atlantis (1985, 1988) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)

Sports

• Sherwood Magee

  Baseball player.

  • 1910 National League Batting Champion (see list of National League Batting Champions)

The Literary World

• Sherwood Anderson (born 1876, died 1941)

  American short-story writer and novelist.

  • Wrote Winesburg, Ohio (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)