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Goodspeed (surname)

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As a surname, "Goodspeed" GS 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.

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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

    • In fiction

  • Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, a character in the 1996 US film The Rock.
  • Horace Goodspeed, a character in the US television series Lost.
  • Ethan Rom, alias of Dr. Ethan Goodspeed, a character in the US television series Lost

    • References

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