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:

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

Music

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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