Goddard

Goddard may refer to:

Places

In the United States:

• Goddard, Alaska
• Goddard, Kansas
• Goddard, Maryland
• Goddard Bungalow Court Historic District, Des Moines, Iowa
• Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont
• Goddard Memorial State Park, Warwick, Rhode Island
• Maurice K. Goddard State Park, New Vernon Township, Pennsylvania
• The Goddard School Springfield, MO
• Homer, Indiana, also known as Goddard

People

Surname

• Goddard family
• Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard, 1954), British pop singer
• Alexa Goddard (born 1988), British R&B singer
• Anna-Marie Goddard (born 1970), Dutch-born model for adult publications
• Brendon Goddard (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
• Charles W. Goddard (1879–1951), American playwright and screenwriter
• Cliff Goddard, Australian professor in linguistics
• Dick Goddard (born 1931), meteorologist at WJW-TV in Cleveland
• F. Norton Goddard, New York City Republican politician, c. 1900
• Geoff Goddard (1938–2000), English musician and songwriter
• George 'Sonny' Goddard, former president of the Steelband Association and enthusiast
• George William Goddard (1889–1987), aerial photography pioneer
• Henry H. Goddard (1866–1957), prominent American psychologist and eugenicist
• Hope Goddard Iselin (1868–1970), American sportswoman
• Ives Goddard (1941–), American linguist
• Jamie Goddard, Australian rugby league footballer
• Jordan Goddard, English footballer
• Liza Goddard (born 1950), British television presenter
• Nichola Goddard (1980–2006), Canadian army captain who was killed during Canadian operations in Afghanistan
• Paul Goddard (born 1959), English footballer
• Paulette Goddard (1911–1990), American actress
• Peter Goddard (physicist) (born 1945), British mathematical physicist
• Peter Goddard (motorcycle racer) (born 1964), Australian motorcycle road racer.
• Pliny Earle Goddard, early American linguist
• Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard (1877–1971), former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Robert Goddard (novelist) (born 1954), British novelist
• Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945), "the father of modern US rocketry"
• 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
• Tom Goddard (1900–1966), English cricketer; fifth highest first-class wicket-taker
• Trevor Goddard (1962–2003), actor and former professional boxer
• Trevor Goddard (cricketer) (b. 1931), South African cricketer
• Trisha Goddard (born 1957), British television presenter
• William Goddard, IBM engineer
• William Andrew Goddard III, American theoretical chemist

Given name

• Goddard Lieberson (1911–1977), former president of Columbia Records

Named for Robert H. Goddard

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
• Goddard High School, a public high school in Roswell, New Mexico
• The Goddard Space Flight Center, a major NASA space science laboratory located in Greenbelt, Maryland
  • Goddard Institute for Space Studies, component laboratory of Goddard Space Flight Center
• Blue Origin Goddard, a private spacecraft which first flew in November 2006
• Version 13 of the popular Linux distribution Fedora (operating system) is named Goddard

Things

• Goddard, a robot dog in the American animated television series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• The Goddard–Thorn theorem, a mathematical theorem about certain vector spaces
• A goddard is a drinking vessel of stone, akin to the German stein
• The Maine penny, also known as the "Goddard coin"

See also

• Godard (disambiguation)