# 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 (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, law and the military

* 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
* Frederick Norton Goddard (1861–1905), New York City Republican politician
* Guybon Goddard (1612–1671), English lawyer, Member of Parliament, and diarist
* John Goddard (1730–1816), Wagon-Master General to the army of the twelve united Colonies (a Selectman, and Assessor from Massachusetts)
* 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