Alternate spellings include Wolfe, Wolff, Wulf and Wolf.
The name Woolf may refer to:
- Arthur Woolf, English engineer, best known for invention of a compound steam engine.
- Benjamin Edward Woolf,, British-American playwright, composer and journalist.
- Daniel Woolf, Principal of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
- Edgar Allan Woolf (1881-1943), American playwright and co-author of the script for The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
- George Woolf, Canadian horse racing jockey
- Harry Woolf (historian), (1923-2003), American historian of science, provost of The Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
- Herbert M. Woolf, American businessman and racehorse owner
- Jimmy Woolf (born 1916), South African footballer who played for Southampton F.C.
- Leonard Woolf, author and husband of Virginia Woolf.
- Lord Woolf, England and Wales Lord Chief Justice credited with making wide-ranging reforms to improve the effectiveness of the court system
- Russell Woolf, Western Australian media personality
- Virginia Woolf, English author and feminist
Famous quotes containing the word woolf:
“The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whose speech is guttural, visceral—well, he is here. He squats in me.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)