Godwin
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Godwin is an Anglo-Saxon name. The name is nowadays most common - on a worldwide base - in Nigeria, Africa.[1] It may refer to:
People
- Politics and governance
- Godwin, Earl of Wessex
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (1873–1929), North Carolina Congressman
- Mary Wollstonecraft, later Mary Godwin (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Mills E. Godwin Jr. (1914–1999), Governor of Virginia
- William Godwin, English political philosopher
- Religion
- Godwin of Stavelot, English saint
- Francis Godwin (1562–1633), English bishop and historian
- Godwin (bishop), a bishop of Lichfield c. 1003 – 1017
- Jeff Godwin, American fundamentalist, former rock musician
- Thomas Godwin (bishop) (1517–1590), a bishop of Bath and Wells
- Arts and entertainment
- Catherine Grace Godwin (1798–1845), Scottish poet
- Edward William Godwin (1833–1886), English architect
- Fay Godwin (1931–2005), British photographer
- Frank Godwin (1889–1959), American illustrator, creator of Connie comic strip
- Frank Godwin (film producer) (1917–2012), English film producer
- Gail Godwin (born 1937), American novelist and short story writer
- George Godwin, architectural journalist
- George Stanley Godwin, author
- Jeff Godwin, American fundamentalist, former rock musician
- Joscelyn Godwin (born 1945), English musicologist and translator
- Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 1797–1851), author of Frankenstein
- Parke Godwin (1929–2013), American writer
- Parke Godwin (journalist) (1816–1904), American journalist
- Paul Godwin (1902–1982), Polish violinist and bandleader
- Peter Godwin (writer)
- Peter Godwin (singer)
- Robert Godwin author/editor
- Ted Godwin (1933–2013), Canadian artist
- Tom Godwin (writer)
- Science
- Harry Godwin (1901–1985), English botanist
- Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834–1923), English geologist and ornithologist
- Linda M. Godwin (born 1952), American astronaut
- Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen (1808–1884), English geologist
- Sport
- Billy Godwin, American college baseball coach
- John Godwin (baseball), American baseball player
- Neville Godwin (born 1975), South African tennis player
- Tommy Godwin (footballer)
- Tommy Godwin (cyclist born 1912), English cyclist and world record holder for miles covered in a year
- Tommy Godwin (cyclist born 1920), British track cyclist active during the 1940s and 1950s
- Verdi Godwin (1926–2013), English footballer
- Wayne Godwin (born 1982), English rugby player
- Other people
- Becky Godwin (1954–1968), daughter of Virginia Governor Godwin, killed by lightning
- Glen Stewart Godwin (born 1958), American murderer, FBI Ten Most Wanted
- James Godwin, American admiral
- James Gowing Godwin, New Zealand military aviator
- John Godwin (Royal Navy officer), British Naval Reserve officer during World War II
- Mike Godwin (born 1956), American lawyer, created Godwin's law of Internet discussions
Fictional people
- Neil Godwin, fictional character from The Office
Places
Other
- General Godwin, convict ship
- Godwin's law on comparison with Nazis - named after the family name of American lawyer Mike Godwin ; by extension, the use of a Godwin point on an internet forum
- Godwin (song by Korede Bello), title of a song by Nigerian artiste Korede Bello
See also
References
- ^ "Godwin Surname Distribution". Forebears. Forebears. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
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