Goddard (surname)

Goddard is a surname of Norman origin, found in England and France. It is derived from the personal name Golhard. Recorded variants include Godard and Godart in England; Goudard and Godar in France; Gotthard, Godehard and Goddert in Germany; and Goedhard and Goedhart in Holland.

Notable people with the name include:

Arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theater

• Alf Goddard (1897–1981), English film actor
• Andy Goddard (born 1968), British film director and screenwriter
• Charles W. Goddard (1879–1951), American playwright and screenwriter
• Drew Goddard (born 1975), American screenwriter, director and producer
• Jim Goddard (1936–2013), English film and television director
• Liza Goddard (born 1950), British television presenter
• Paulette Goddard (1911–1990), American actress
• Trisha Goddard (born 1957), British television presenter

Literature and journalism

• Julia Goddard (1825–1896), British children's writer and animal welfare campaigner
• Mary Katharine Goddard (1738–1816), American publisher and printer
• Robert Goddard (novelist) (born 1954), British novelist
• Sarah Updike Goddard (c. 1701–1770), American publisher and printer
• William Goddard (publisher) (1740–1817), American publisher and printer
• Neville Goddard (1905–1972), Barbadian writer and mystic
• Simon Goddard (born 1971), British author and music journalist

Music

• Goddard. (born Andrew Goddard, 1998), British musician
• Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard, 1954), British pop singer
• Alexa Goddard (born 1990), British R&B singer
• Geoff Goddard (1938–2000), English musician and songwriter
• George "Sonny" Goddard (1924–1988), Trinidadian steelpan enthusiast
• Joe Goddard (born 1979), British musician, Hot Chip

Other arts and entertainment

• Anna-Marie Goddard (born 1970), Dutch-born model for adult publications
• Gary Goddard (born 1954), American film producer and director; theme park designer
• Giles Goddard (born 1971), English video game programmer based in Japan
• George William Goddard (1889–1987), American air force general and aerial photography pioneer

Politics, law and the military

• Ambrose Goddard (c. 1727–1815), English politician
• Ambrose Goddard (born 1819) (1819–1898), English politician
• Daniel Ford Goddard (1850–1922), English politician
• Frederick Norton Goddard (1861–1905), American politician from New York
• Guybon Goddard (1612–1671), English lawyer, politician and diarist
• John Goddard (1730–1816), American Wagon-Master General
• Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (1877–1971), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Robert Hale Ives Goddard (1837–1916), American industrialist and politician from Rhode Island
• Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. (1919–2006), American politician from Arizona
• Theodore Goddard (1879–1952), British solicitor to Wallis Simpson during the Edward VIII abdication crisis
• Thomas Goddard (jurist) (1937–2019), New Zealand jurist
• Thomas Goddard (MP) (1777–1814), English politician

Science and engineering

• Andrew Goddard (born 1967), British doctor
• Calvin Hooker Goddard (1891–1955), American scientist, "the father of forensic ballistics"
• Cliff Goddard (born 1953), Australian linguist
• David R. Goddard (1908–1985), American plant physiologist and scientific administrator, son of Pliny
• Dick Goddard (1931–2020), American meteorologist
• Ebenezer Goddard (1816–1882), British businessman and engineer
• Ernest James Goddard (1883–1948), Australian professor of biology
• Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957), American psychologist and eugenicist
• Ives Goddard (born 1941), American linguist
• Lisa Goddard (1966–2022), American climatologist
• Michael Goddard, Australian animal genetics researcher
• Peter Goddard (physicist) (born 1945), British mathematical physicist
• Pliny Earle Goddard (1869–1928), American linguist, father of David
• Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), American rocket scientist
• Stacie E. Goddard, American political scientist
• William Goddard (engineer) (1913–1997), American engineer
• William Andrew Goddard III (born 1937), American theoretical chemist

Sports

• Brendon Goddard (born 1985), Australian footballer
• Dicky Goddard (1879–1949), English rugby player
• Hope Goddard Iselin (1868–1970), American sportswoman
• Jamie Goddard (born 1972), Australian rugby player
• Jim Goddard (basketball) (born c. 1930), American basketball coach
• Joe Goddard (boxer) (1857–1903), Australian boxer
• John Goddard (cricketer) (1919–1987), Barbadian cricketer
• John Goddard (footballer) (born 1993), English footballer
• Jordan Goddard (born 1993), English footballer
• Paul Goddard (footballer) (born 1959), English footballer
• Peter Goddard (motorcyclist) (born 1964), Australian motorcycle road racer
• Richard Goddard (footballer) (born 1978), Trinidad and Tobago football player
• Richard Goddard (rugby league) (born 1974), English rugby player
• Richard Goddard-Crawley (born 1978), British football player
• Spike Goddard (born 1992), Australian racing driver
• Tom Goddard (1900–1966), English cricketer
• Tracy Goddard (born 1969), British runner
• Trevor Goddard (cricketer) (1931–2016), South African cricketer
• Trevor Goddard (1962–2003), English actor and boxer

Others

• Goddard family, in the English counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Berkshire, between the Tudor period and the late modern era
• John Goddard (disambiguation), multiple people
• Nichola Goddard (1980–2006), Canadian army captain
• Thomas Goddard (priest) (1674–1731), Canon of Windsor

See also

• Goddard (given name)
• Godard (surname)

References