People
- Brett Atwood, journalist, online editor and academic
- Casey Atwood, American NASCAR driver
- Charles B. Atwood, American architect
- Colleen Atwood, Academy Award-winning costume designer
- Donald J. Atwood Jr., Deputy United States Secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush
- Donna Atwood, American figure skater
- Duncan Atwood, American javelin thrower
- George Atwood, English mathematician, inventor of the Atwood machine
- Harry Nelson Atwood (1884-1967), American aviator, landed Wright aeroplane on White House South Lawn, 1911, given gold medal by President Taft for this feat
- Jane Evelyn Atwood, American photographer
- Jeanette Atwood, American animator
- John Leland Atwood, American aerospace engineer
- Kimball Chase Atwood, American insurance company founder and grapefruit magnate
- Atwood-Blauvelt mansion, Kimball Chase Atwood's shingle style house in Oradell, New Jersey
- Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist and literary critic
- Wallace Walter Atwood, American geographer and geologist
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