Greene (surname)

Greene is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Disambiguation lists

Greenes sharing the same first name:

• Albert Greene (disambiguation)
• Bert Greene (disambiguation)
• Daniel Greene (disambiguation)
• Frank Greene (disambiguation)
• Harry Greene (disambiguation)
• Henry Greene (disambiguation)
• Herbert Greene (disambiguation)
• James Greene (disambiguation)
• Joseph Greene (disambiguation)
• Joshua Greene (disambiguation)
• Kevin Greene (disambiguation)
• Mark Greene (disambiguation)
• Robert Greene (disambiguation)
• William Greene (disambiguation)

Arts

See also #Writing and publishing

• Alastair Greene (born 1971), American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter
• Ashley Greene, American actor
• Balcomb Greene, American artist
• Brenda Shannon Greene, better known as Shannon, American singer
• Burton Greene (1937–2021), American free jazz pianist
• Charles Greene, American architect, partner in Greene and Greene
• Ellen Greene, American singer and actor
• Evie Greene (1875–1917), English singer and actor
• Frances Nimmo Greene (1867-1937), American educator and author
• Frank Greene (singer) (1879–?), baritone brother of Evie Greene
• Frank David Greene (born 1963), American trumpet player author, and speaker
• Gladys Georgianna Greene, better known as Jean Arthur, American actor
• Graham Greene, Canadian actor
• Henry Greene, American architect better known as a partner in Greene and Greene
• J. Patrick Greene, English archaeologist and museum director
• Jack Greene (1930–2013), American musician
• Kenny Greene, American singer-songwriter and record producer
• Kempton Greene, American actor
• Kim Morgan Greene, American actor
• Laivan Greene, American actor
• Lance Greene, American actor and theater and film producer
• Laura Greene (presenter), British television presenter
• Leon Greene, English opera singer and film actor
• Lizzy Greene, American actress
• Lorne Greene (1915–1987), Canadian actor
• Maurice Greene (composer), English composer and organist
• Patrick Greene (composer), American composer
• Patricia Greene, British actor
• Peter Greene, American actor
• Richard Greene, British actor
• Rosaline Greene, American actress
• Sarah Greene (actress), Irish actor and singer
• Sarah Greene (television presenter), British television presenter
• Shecky Greene (1926–2023), American comedian
• Susaye Greene, American singer
• Talib Kweli Greene, better known as Talib Kweli, American emcee
• Ted Greene (1946–2005), American guitarist and music educator
• Timothy Greene, South African actor and film director
• Vivien Greene, English authority on doll's houses

Military

• Alister Greene (1854-1923), American soldier
• Christopher Greene (1737-1781), American legislator and soldier
• Colton Greene (1833-1900), Confederate general during the American Civil War
• Douglass T. Greene (1891-1964), United States Army officer
• Francis Vinton Greene (1850-1921), United States Army officer
• Frederick Stuart Greene (1870–1939), American soldier
• George S. Greene (1801-1899), Union general during the American Civil War
• Griffin Greene (1749–1804), commissary, paymaster, and quartermaster to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Harold J. Greene (1959-2014), United States Army general
• Henry Alexander Greene (1856-1921), United States Army officer
• Israel Greene (1824-1909), American and CSA Marine
• James Durrell Greene (1828–1902), American inventor and Civil War Brevet Brig. General
• John Greene, Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War
• John C. Greene (1926-2016), Deputy Surgeon General of the United States
• John Edmund Greene (1894-1918), Canadian flying ace
• Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), American general (and a name source for many US locations)
• Philip H. Greene Jr. (fl. 1970s–2010s), U.S. Navy rear admiral
• Samuel Greene (naval officer) (1839-1884), American naval officer
• Theodore P. Greene (1809–1887), U.S. Navy rear admiral
• Wallace Martin Greene Jr. (1907-2003), United States Marine Corps four-star general
• William Cornell Greene (1851–1911), American soldier
• William Hallett Greene (1864-1942), American soldier and meteorologist

Politics, law, and government

• Alister Greene, American lawyer and society leader
• Alvin Greene, American politician
• Aurelia Greene, American politician
• Ben Greene, British pacifist
• Conyngham Greene (1854–1934), British diplomat, minister to Switzerland, Romania and Denmark and ambassador to Japan
• George Greene, 19th-century Iowa Supreme Court justice
• Harold H. Greene, U.S. district court justice
• James Edward Greene, Liberian politician
• Jehmu Greene, American politician
• John Greene (settler), English co-founder of Warwick, Rhode Island
• John Greene Jr., English colonial Deputy Governor of Rhode Island
• Marjorie Taylor Greene, American politician
• Moya Greene, Canadian civil servant, President and CEO of Canada Post
• Nathan S. Greene, American politician
• Thomas Alan "Tom" Greene, Louisiana politician and veterinarian
• Walter S. Greene, American politician
• Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene, British judge
• William Greene (colonial governor), governor of Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• William Pomeroy Crawford Greene, English politician

Sciences

• Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793–1862), American botanist
• Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist and string theorist
• Charles Ezra Greene, American civil engineer
• Charles Wilson Greene, American physiologist and pharmacologist
• Cordelia A. Greene (1831-1905), American physician
• Edward Lee Greene (1843–1915), American botanist
• Kevin Greene, British archaeologist
• Margaret Cicely Langton Greene, British speech and language therapist
• Victoria Greene, American physicist

Sports

• Alan Greene, American diver
• Alice Greene, British olympic tennis player
• Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
• Brandon Greene, American football player
• Cathal Óg Greene, Irish Gaelic football player
• Charles Greene (athlete), American sprinter
• Charlie Greene (baseball), American baseball player
• Charlie Greene (soccer), American soccer player
• Conner Greene, American baseball player
• David Greene, American football player
• Donté Greene, American basketball player
• Earnest Greene, American football player
• Edward L. Greene, American athlete and coach
• Hunter Greene (baseball), American baseball player
• Hunter Greene (basketball), American basketball player
• Joe Greene, American football player
• Kai Greene, American bodybuilder
• Keith Greene (1938–2021), British racing driver
• Khalil Greene, American baseball player
• Marcellus Greene, American football player
• Matt Greene, American ice hockey player
• Maurice Greene, American sprinter
• Orien Greene, American basketball player
• Raven Greene, American football player
• Riley Greene, American baseball player
• Russell Greene, Australian rules footballer
• Serginho Greene, Dutch soccer player
• Shane Greene, American baseball player
• Shonn Greene, American football player
• Toby Greene, American college baseball coach
• Todd Greene, American baseball player
• Vibert Greene, Barbadian cricketer

Writing and publishing

• A. Wilson Greene, American historian and writer
• Bette Greene, American writer
• Bob Greene, American newspaper columnist
• Cheryll Greene (1943–2013), American magazine editor and scholar
• Gael Greene, American food critic
• Graham Greene (1904–1991), English writer
• Hugh Greene, British journalist and television executive
• Jamal Greene, American legal scholar and Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
• Katharine Greene (1731–1777), American diarist better known as Katharine Greene Amory
• Melissa Fay Greene, American writer
• Niamh Greene (born 1971), Irish novelist
• Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592), English pamphleteer and dramatist
• Robert Greene (American author) (born 1959), American author
• Sarah Pratt McLean Greene (1856-1935), American writer
• Sonia Greene (1883–1972), Ukrainian-American writer married to H. P. Lovecraft
• Tilly Greene, American writer

Other

• Anne Greene, known as Mary Gertrude, Irish-born Catholic sister in Australia
• Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian to J. P. Morgan, and after his death the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library
• Benjamin Greene (brewer), English businessman
• Brendan Greene, Irish video game developer better known as PlayerUnknown
• Catharine Littlefield Greene (1755–1814), wife of Nathanael Greene in colonial Rhode Island
• Ettie Mae Greene, American supercentenarian
• Evarts Boutell Greene, American historian
• George Washington Greene, American historian
• Mary Greene (nun) (1843–1933), Irish-born Catholic nun active in Canada
• Maxine Greene, American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher
• Vincent Graves Greene (1893–1988), Canadian philatelist
• William Cornell Greene (1852–1911), American copper magnate

Fictional characters

• Chuck Greene, one of the protagonist of the Dead Rising games.
• Dominic Greene, villain in the film Quantum of Solace
• Hillary Greene, in books by Faith Martin
• Mark Greene, in the ER television series
• Maggie Greene, Hershel Greene and Beth Greene, in The Walking Dead television series

See also

• Greene C. Bronson, American lawyer and politician