Goddard
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- Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard in 1954), British pop singer
- Anna-Marie Goddard (born 1970), a Dutch-born model for adult publications
- Charles W. Goddard (1879–1951), an American playwright and screenwriter
- F. Norton Goddard, New York City Republican politician, ca. 1900
- George 'Sonny' Goddard, Former President of Steelband Association and enthusiast.
- George William Goddard (1889–1987), a pioneer in aerial photography
- Geoff Goddard (1938–2000), english musician and songwriter
- Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957), a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist
- Liza Goddard (born 1950), a presenter on British television
- Nichola Goddard (1980–2006), a captain in the Canadian army who was killed during Canadian operations in Afghanistan
- Paulette Goddard (1911–1990), an American actress
- Peter Goddard (born 1945), a British mathematical physicist
- Pliny Earle Goddard, an early American linguist
- Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (1877–1971), a former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Robert Goddard (novelist) (born 1954), a British novelist
- Robert Goddard (scientist) (1882–1945), "the father of modern rocketry"
- Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. (1965–1967), the 12th Governor of Arizona
- John Theodore Goddard, British solicitor to Wallis Simpson during the Edward VIII abdication crisis
- Tom Goddard, English cricketer, fifth highest first-class wicket-taker
- Trevor Goddard (1962–2003), an actor and former professional boxer
- Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer (41 Tests)
- Trisha Goddard (born 1957), a presenter on British television
- Goddard Lieberson (1911–1977), a former president of Columbia Records
- Goddard, a robot dog in the American animated television series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont
- The Goddard-Thorn theorem, a mathematical theorem about certain vector spaces
The following got their names due to Robert H. Goddard's pioneering role in rocketry:
- Goddard crater, a lunar crater that is located along the eastern limb of the Moon
- The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
- The Goddard Space Flight Center, a major NASA space science laboratory located in Greenbelt, Maryland
- Goddard, a private spacecraft which first flew in November 2006.