Heywood

Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. At age 16, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody.

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Other famous Heywood's include:
Heywood Banks (1950-), United States comedian
Heywood Broun (1888–1939), United States journalist
Heywood Hale Broun (1918–2001), United States journalist
Heywood L. Edwards (1905–1941), United States naval officer
Heywood Gould (born 1942), United States screenwriter
Heywood Sumner (1853–1940), an English painter and antiquary
Heywood J. Ward, British writer, comedian and philanthropist.

Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire.

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Heywood is also a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.