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.
The surname Goddard may refer to:
In film, television, and theater
Alf Goddard (1897–1981), English film actor
Charles W. Goddard (1879–1951), American playwright and screenwriter
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
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, former president of the Steelband Association and enthusiast
Others in arts and entertainment
Anna-Marie Goddard (born 1970), Dutch-born model for adult publications
George William Goddard (1889–1987), aerial photography pioneer
Robert Goddard (novelist) (born 1954), British novelist
F. Norton Goddard, New York City Republican politician, c. 1900
Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (1877–1971), former 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, British solicitor to Wallis Simpson during the Edward VIII abdication crisis
In science and engineering
Cliff Goddard, Australian professor in linguistics
David R. Goddard (1908-1985) American plant physiologist and scientific administrator, son of Pliny Earle Goddard
Dick Goddard (born 1931), meteorologist at WJW-TV in Cleveland
Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957), prominent American psychologist and eugenicist
Ives Goddard (1941–), American linguist
Michael E. Goddard, Animal Genetics researcher
Peter Goddard (physicist) (born 1945), British mathematical physicist
Pliny Earle Goddard, early American linguist, father of David R. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), "the father of modern US rocketry"
William Goddard (engineer), IBM engineer
William Andrew Goddard III, American theoretical chemist
Brendon Goddard (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
Hope Goddard Iselin (1868–1970), American sportswoman
Jamie Goddard, Australian rugby league footballer
Joe Goddard (boxer)
Jordan Goddard, English footballer
Paul Goddard (born 1959), English footballer
Peter Goddard (motorcycle racer) (born 1964), Australian motorcycle road racer
Tom Goddard (1900–1966), English cricketer; fifth highest first-class wicket-taker
Trevor Goddard (1962–2003), actor and former professional boxer
Trevor Goddard (cricketer) (1931–2016), South African cricketer
John Goddard (footballer), English Footballer
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
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