Saint Gotthard of Hildesheim (960–1038), bishop and Roman Catholic saint (also known as Godehard, Godard and Gotehord)
Goddard & Townsend (c. 1730-1810) several generations of fine cabinetmakers, Newport, R.I.
Mary Katherine Goddard (1738 – 1816) printer, publisher, first American postmistress, may have printed first the Declaration of Independence with the names of the signatories
William Goddard (1740–1817) Mary Katherine's brother, American patriot, printer
William Wirt Goddard (1820-1901) noted Kentucky horse breeder, subject of memoir "Uncle Will of Wildwood"
George Seymour Godard (1865-1936), Connecticut State Librarian, historian and genealogist    
Pliny Earle Goddard (1869-1928), early American linguist
Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945), American inventor, physicist and "rocket scientist"
Col. Calvin Hooker Goddard (1891–1955), forensic expert and ballistics pioneer
Paulette Goddard (1910-1990), American film and theater actor
Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. (1919–2006), 12th Governor of Arizona
Courtland Jourolomon (1926- ) actor, director and producer under the name "Jerome Courtland," briefly married to actress Polly Bergen
Jean-Luc Godard (1930- ), French-Swiss filmmaker