Goodspeed (surname)

As a surname, "Goodspeed" derives from "Godspeed", which in turn comes from the expression "God speed (you)", a wish for success and fortune on behalf of one setting out on a trip or an enterprise.

People with the surname

 * Dan Goodspeed (born 1977), US athlete in football
 * Edgar J. Goodspeed (1871–1962), US theologian, scholar and author of numerous writings about the Bible
 * Estella Goodspeed and Allen Goodspeed, wife and son of Arthur Scott Bailey
 * Joey Goodspeed (born 1978), US athlete in football
 * Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), US film actress, born Marjorie Goodspeed
 * Paula Goodspeed (1978–2008), US singer and American Idol auditioner, accused stalker of Paula Abdul
 * Tyler Goodspeed (b. 1984/85), American economist

In fiction

 * Ethan Rom, alias of Dr. Ethan Goodspeed, a character in the US television series Lost
 * Gary Goodspeed, the main character of the US animated television series Final Space
 * Horace Goodspeed, a character in the US television series Lost
 * Patience Goodspeed, the main character in The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed and The Education of Patience Goodspeed, by Heather Vogel Frederick
 * Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, a character in the 1996 US film The Rock