Gould (name)

Gould is a surname that is sourced mainly to Ireland, Scotland, and England. It is possibly linked to the Celts, Normans, or Vikings, but more likely is Anglo-Saxon in origin. Many families that share the Gould surname today had their names evolve or become "Anglicized" over time as their original names would have been strange or misunderstood due to accents and language barriers, especially in the United States and Canada. Gould is a variant of the surname "Gold" which is a very ancient name found in Scotland and England.

Gould as family name

Acting

• Alexander Gould (b. 1994), American actor
• Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
• Elliott Gould (b. 1938), American actor
• Harold Gould (1923–2010), American actor
• Jadin Gould (b. 1998), American actress
• James Nutcombe Gould (1849–1899), English stage actor
• Jason Gould (b. 1966), American actor, writer and director
• Kelly Gould, American actress
• Peter Gould (writer), American television drama screenwriter
• Sandra Gould (1916–1999), American actress and comedian

Business

• Andrew Gould (b. 1946), chairman and former chief executive officer of Schlumberger
• George Jay Gould I (1864–1923) president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad
• Jay Gould (1836–1892), American financier

Military

• Davidge Gould (1758–1847), Royal Navy Admiral
• Gerard Muirhead-Gould (1889–1945), Royal Navy Rear Admiral
• Mick Gould, film and TV technical adviser and former member of the Special Air Service
• Rupert T. Gould (1890–1948), Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy and author of The Marine Chronometer
• Thomas William Gould (1914–2001), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Michael C. Gould, 18th Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy
• Edward Dean Gould, 13 November 1935 - 21 April 1967, Staff Sergeant, Vietnam War Marine Corps

Music

Kevin Gould (b. 1948) singer songwriter recording artist and Pastor.

• Billy Gould (b. 1963), American musician and producer
• Two British musicians, both brothers and members of the band Level 42:
  • Boon Gould (b. 1955), guitarist
  • Phil Gould (b. 1957), drummer
• Glenn Gould (1932–1982), Canadian pianist
  • Glenn Gould Studio
  • Glenn Gould Prize
  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
• Morton Gould (1913–1996), American composer, conductor and arranger
• Stephen Gould, American tenor

Politics

• Arthur R. Gould (1857–1946), U.S. Senator
• Bryan Gould (b. 1939), British politician
• Joseph Gould (1808–1886), Canadian, farmer, businessman and politician
• Monica Gould (b. 1957), former Australian politician
• Philip Gould (b. 1950), British political advisor

Science

• Alfred Pearce Gould, British physician
• Augustus Addison Gould, American conchologist
• Benjamin A. Gould, American astronomer
• Carl Freylinghausen Gould, American architect
• Cecil Gould, an English art historian
• Elizabeth Gould (psychologist), professor of psychology at Princeton University
• Gordon Gould, American physicist, inventor of the laser
• Henry W. Gould, American mathematician
• John Gould, English ornithologist
  • Gould's mouse (Pseudomys gouldii), lived in eastern inland Australia
  • Gould's finch (Gouldian finch), Chloebia gouldiae, a small bird kept as a pet.
• John Stanton Gould, American science lecturer, temperance reformer, and agricultural scientist.
• Laurence McKinley Gould – 20th century American geologist, educator, polar explorer.
• Rupert Gould – British horologist
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist and science writer.

Sports

• Al Gould (1888–1935), American baseball player
• Arthur "Monkey" Gould, Welsh international rugby captain
• Bert Gould, Welsh international rugby player
• Bob Gould, Welsh international rugby player
• Bob Gould, former NHL hockey player, two time Selke nominee
• Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• Carol Gould, English long-distance runner
• Chad Gould, Philippines international footballer, England beach soccer international
• Charlie Gould (1847–1917), American baseball player
• Georgia Gould mountain biker
• Horace Gould, English motor racing driver
• James Gould (rower), New Zealand rower
• Jay Gould II (1888–1935) champion tennis player
• Martin Gould, English snooker player
• Phil Gould, Australian rugby league footballer, coach and commentator
• Robbie Gould, placekicker for the Chicago Bears
• Shane Gould, Australian swimmer

Other

• Alan J. Gould (1898-1993), American newspaper editor
• Bob Gould (activist) (1937–2011), Australian activist and bookseller
• Brian Gould (1979–present), entertainer and wrestling promoter
• Chester Gould, creator of popular comic book character Dick Tracy
• Edd Gould (1988-2012), British animator, creator of Eddsworld
• Edward Sherman Gould, 19th-century American author, translator and critic
• Ezra Palmer Gould, minister and biblical scholar
• Francis Carruthers Gould, British caricaturist and political cartoonist
• Frederick James Gould, English teacher, writer and pioneer secular humanist
• Gerald Gould, English writer, journalist, reviewer, essayist and poet
• James Gould (jurist), American law school professor
• Jonny Gould, English radio sports broadcaster on Smooth Radio
• Hal Gould, American photographer and gallery curator
• Matthew Gould (born 1971), British Ambassador to Israel
• Nathaniel Gould, (Nat Gould), English journalist and writer of horse racing novels
• Sabine Baring-Gould, English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar
• Sara K. Gould, American feminist and philanthropist
• Steven Gould, American science fiction writer
• Thomas R. Gould, American sculptor
• William Gould (naturalist), English cleric and naturalist
• William S. Baring-Gould, scholar of the Sherlock Holmes detective

Gould as middle name

• James Gould Cozzens
• John Gould Fletcher
• Daniel Gould Fowle
• Jacob Gould Schurman
• John Gould Stephenson
• Robert Gould Shaw
• Ellen Gould White

See also

• Goulding (disambiguation)
• Gulda