Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS[1] (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish.

He is not related to Henry Woodward, whom he replaced as curator of the Geology Department of the British Museum of Natural History.

In 1942 Woodward was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences.

[2] On 21 May 2014 a one-day symposium was held at the Natural History Museum in London to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Woodward's birth.

[10] The collection spans c.2500 items; many books contain autograph letters to Woodward, including correspondence from Florentino Ameghino, Charles Barrois, Georg Baur, and Bashford Deanan.