Goddard (surname)

Goddard is a surname of Norman origin,^{[citation needed]} found in England and France.^{[citation needed]} It is derived from the personal name "Golhard"^{[citation needed]}. 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.^[1]

Notable people with the name include:

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Film, television, and theater[edit]

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[edit]

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 Lancelot Goddard (1905–1972), Barbadian writer and mystic

Music[edit]

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

Other arts and entertainment[edit]

Anna-Marie Goddard (born 1970), Dutch-born model for adult publications
Gary Goddard (born 1954), American film producer and director; theme park designer
George William Goddard (1889–1987), American air force general and aerial photography pioneer

Politics and law[edit]

Ambrose Goddard (c. 1727–1815), MP for Wiltshire
Ambrose Goddard (born 1819) (1819–1898), MP for Cricklade
Daniel Ford Goddard (1850–1922), MP for Ipswich
F. Norton Goddard (1861–1905), New York City Republican politician
Guybon Goddard (1612–1671), English lawyer, Member of Parliament, and diarist
Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (1877–1971), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Robert Hale Ives Goddard (1837–1916), industrialist and Rhode Island politician
Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. (1919–2006), 12th Governor of 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), MP for Cricklade

Science and engineering[edit]

Andrew Goddard (born 1967), British doctor
Calvin Hooker Goddard (1891–1955), American scientist, "the father of forensic ballistics"
Cliff Goddard (born 1953), Australian professor in linguistics
David R. Goddard (1908–1985), American plant physiologist and scientific administrator, son of Pliny Earle Goddard
Dick Goddard (1931–2020), meteorologist at WJW-TV in Cleveland
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), early American linguist, father of David R. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), "the father of modern US rocketry"
Stacie E. Goddard, American political scientist
William Goddard (engineer) (1913–1997), IBM engineer
William Andrew Goddard III (born 1937), American theoretical chemist

Sports[edit]

Brendon Goddard (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
Dicky Goddard (1879–1949), English rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s and 1900s
Hope Goddard Iselin (1868–1970), American sportswoman
Jamie Goddard (born 1972), Australian rugby league footballer
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 goalkeeper
Richard Goddard (rugby league) (born 1974), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s
Richard Goddard-Crawley (born 1978), British semi-professional association football midfielder
Spike Goddard (Richard Goddard, born 1992), Australian racing driver
Tom Goddard (1900–1966), English cricketer; fifth highest first-class wicket-taker
Tracy Goddard (born 1969), British runner
Trevor Goddard (cricketer) (1931–2016), South African cricketer
Trevor Goddard (1962–2003), English actor and former professional boxer

Others[edit]

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 who was killed during Canadian operations in Afghanistan
Thomas Goddard (priest) (1674–1731), Canon of Windsor

References[edit]

^ "Last name: Goddard". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

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[ISDB-1] "Last name: Goddard". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

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