Goody (name)
Goody is both a surname and an honorific, short for goodwife, analogous to modern-day “Mrs,” as well as a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Gordon Goody, British criminal, involved in the Great Train Robbery
- Jack Goody, British social anthropologist
- Jade Goody, British reality television star
- Joan E. Goody, American architect
- Laila Goody, Norwegian actress
- Lancelot John Goody, Roman Catholic bishop then archbishop of Perth
- Nick Goody, American baseball player
- Richard M. Goody, British-American atmospheric physicist and professor of planetary physics
- Roger S. Goody, English biochemist
- Goody Cole or Eunice Cole, only woman convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire
- Goody Osborne or Sarah Osborne, woman accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692
- Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and co-manager
- Goody Rosen, Canadian Major League Baseball All Star outfielder