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, English film actor
- Andy Goddard, British film director and screenwriter
- Charles W. Goddard, American playwright and screenwriter
- Drew Goddard, American screenwriter, director and producer
- Jim Goddard, English film and television director
- Liza Goddard, British television presenter
- Paulette Goddard, American actress
- Trisha Goddard, British television presenter
Literature and journalism
- Julia Goddard, British children's writer and animal welfare campaigner
- Mary Katharine Goddard, American publisher and printer
- Robert Goddard (novelist), British novelist
- Sarah Updike Goddard, American publisher and printer
- William Goddard (publisher), American publisher and printer
- Neville Goddard, Barbadian writer and mystic
- Simon Goddard, British author and music journalist
Music
- Goddard., British musician
- Adam Ant, British pop singer
- Alexa Goddard, British R&B singer
- Geoff Goddard, English musician and songwriter
- George "Sonny" Goddard, Trinidadian steelpan enthusiast
- Joe Goddard, British musician, ''Hot Chip''
Other arts and entertainment
- Anna-Marie Goddard, Dutch-born model for adult publications
- Gary Goddard, American film producer and director; theme park designer
- Giles Goddard, English video game programmer based in Japan
- George William Goddard, American air force general and aerial photography pioneer
Politics, law and the military
- Ambrose Goddard, English politician
- Ambrose Goddard (born 1819), English politician
- Daniel Ford Goddard, English politician
- Frederick Norton Goddard, American politician from New York
- Guybon Goddard, English lawyer, politician and diarist
- John Goddard, American Wagon-Master General
- Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Robert Hale Ives Goddard, American industrialist and politician from Rhode Island
- Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr., American politician from Arizona
- Theodore Goddard, British solicitor to Wallis Simpson during the Edward VIII abdication crisis
- Thomas Goddard (jurist), New Zealand jurist
- Thomas Goddard (MP), English politician
Science and engineering
- Andrew Goddard, British doctor
- Calvin Hooker Goddard, American scientist, "the father of forensic ballistics"
- Cliff Goddard, Australian linguist
- David R. Goddard, American plant physiologist and scientific administrator, son of Pliny
- Dick Goddard, American meteorologist
- Ebenezer Goddard, British businessman and engineer
- Ernest James Goddard, Australian professor of biology
- Henry H. Goddard, American psychologist and eugenicist
- Ives Goddard, American linguist
- Lisa Goddard, American climatologist
- Michael Goddard, Australian animal genetics researcher
- Peter Goddard (physicist), British mathematical physicist
- Pliny Earle Goddard, American linguist, father of David
- Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist
- Stacie E. Goddard, American political scientist
- William Goddard (engineer), American engineer
- William Andrew Goddard III, American theoretical chemist
Sports
- Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
- Dicky Goddard, English rugby player
- Hope Goddard Iselin, American sportswoman
- Jamie Goddard, Australian rugby player
- Jim Goddard (basketball), American basketball coach
- Joe Goddard (boxer), Australian boxer
- John Goddard (cricketer), Barbadian cricketer
- John Goddard (footballer), English footballer
- Jordan Goddard, English footballer
- Paul Goddard (footballer), English footballer
- Peter Goddard (motorcyclist), Australian motorcycle road racer
- Richard Goddard (footballer), Trinidad and Tobago football player
- Richard Goddard (rugby league), English rugby player
- Richard Goddard-Crawley, British football player
- Spike Goddard, Australian racing driver
- Tom Goddard, English cricketer
- Tracy Goddard, British runner
- Trevor Goddard (cricketer), South African cricketer
- Trevor Goddard, 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, Canadian army captain
- Thomas Goddard (priest), Canon of Windsor