Samuel Pickworth Woodward (17 September 1821 – 11 July 1865) was an English geologist and malacologist.

In 1845, S. P. Woodward became the professor of geology and natural history in the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

In 1848 he was appointed assistant in the department of geology and mineralogy in the British Museum.

He proposed the term Bernician Series for the lower portion of the Carboniferous System, below the Millstone Grit.

Woodwardite, a hexagonal mineral containing aluminum, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur, was described as a new mineral species by Church (1866) and named in honour Samuel Pickworth Woodward; its (type locality was given only as Cornwall.