Goddard

Goddard may refer to:

Places

In the United States:
* Goddard, Alaska
* Goddard, Kansas
* Goddard, Maryland
* Goddard Memorial State Park, Warwick, Rhode Island
* Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont
* Maurice K. Goddard State Park, New Vernon Township, Pennsylvania
* Homer, Indiana, also known as Goddard

People

;Surname
* Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard, 1954), British pop singer
* Anna-Marie Goddard (born 1970), Dutch-born model for adult publications
* Charles W. Goddard (1879–1951), American playwright and screenwriter
* 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
* Liza Goddard (born 1950), British television presenter
* Nichola Goddard (1980–2006), Canadian army captain who was killed during Canadian operations in Afghanistan
* Paulette Goddard (1911–1990), American actress
* Peter Goddard (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 rocketry"
* Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. (1919–2006), 12^th 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

;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
* The Goddard Space Flight Center, a major NASA space science laboratory located in Greenbelt, Maryland
*Blue Origin Goddard, a private spacecraft which first flew in November 2006

Things

* , 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

See also

* Godard (disambiguation)