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:
“For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth, one subterfuge was tried after another ... sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)