Goodman (surname)
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Goodman is a surname, formerly a polite term of address, used where Mister (Mr.) would be used today. Compare Goodwife
. It may refer to:
Goodwife
Goodwife , usually abbreviated Goody, was a polite form of address for women, formerly used where "Mrs.", "Miss" and "Ms." would be used today. Its male counterpart is Goodman...
. It may refer to:
Given name
- Goodman Acem ne AiskowitzGoodman AceGoodman Ace , born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humourist, working as a radio writer and comedian, a television writer, and a magazine columnist....
, American humorist - Goodman LipkindGoodman LipkindRabbi Goodman Lipkind was a London rabbi who later emigrated to New York. He wrote several articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia in 1906. He is today mainly remembered for having been the factual base for the picture of Joseph Strelitski, the Rabbi who emigrated to America in Israel Zangwill's...
Family name
- Goodman AceGoodman AceGoodman Ace , born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humourist, working as a radio writer and comedian, a television writer, and a magazine columnist....
, American humorist
- Al GoodmanAl GoodmanAl Goodman was a conductor, songwriter, stage composer, musical director, arranger, and pianist....
, Ukrainian-American conductor and composer - Alan GoodmanAlan GoodmanAlan Goodman has played a key role in creating and launching many media brands since 1981, first in cable television and now for the internet and other platforms....
, designer for MTV - Albert GoodmanAlbert GoodmanAlbert William Goodman was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.At the 1929 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour seat of Bow and Bromley in east London, losing by a wide margin to George Lansbury.As Labour's vote collapsed at the 1931 general election, he won...
, British politician - Alice GoodmanAlice GoodmanAlice Goodman , American poet, was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature. She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams, Nixon in...
, American poetess of Jewish descent - Alison GoodmanAlison GoodmanAlison Goodman is an Australian writer based in Melbourne.Goodman came to attention with her debut novel Singing the Dogstar Blues...
, Australian writer - Allegra GoodmanAllegra GoodmanAllegra Goodman is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, The Cookbook Collector, was published in 2010. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. -Early years and family:...
, Jewish American author - Amy GoodmanAmy GoodmanAmy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.-Early life:Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York...
, Jewish American broadcast journalist and author - André Goodman, American football cornerback for the Miami Dolphins
- Andrew GoodmanAndrew GoodmanAndrew Goodman was one of three American civil rights activists murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan.-Early life and education:...
, Jewish American civil rights activist - Anthony A. GoodmanAnthony A. GoodmanAnthony A. Goodman is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Medical Sciences and the Microbiology departments at Montana State University in the United States. He was a general surgeon for nearly thirty years, specializing in the surgical treatment of cancer...
, American surgeon and historical novelist - Anthony GoodmanAnthony Goodman (historian)Anthony Goodman is an English professor emeritus of medieval and renaissance studies at the University of Edinburgh. His main field of interest is late medieval England, and he has published books on subjects such as John of Gaunt and the Wars of the Roses.-Select publications:*The Loyal...
, British historian - Arnold Goodman, Baron GoodmanArnold Goodman, Baron GoodmanArnold Abraham Goodman, Baron Goodman, CH, QC, was a British lawyer and political advisor.-Life:Lord Goodman was educated at University College London and Downing College, Cambridge. He became a leading London lawyer as Senior Partner in the law firm Goodman, Derrick & Co...
, Jewish British lawyer and political adviser
- Barbara GoodmanBarbara GoodmanDame Barbara Goodman, DBE, QSO, JP is an Auckland, New Zealand politician.She was Mayoress of Auckland City as well as a former Auckland City Councillor for 12 years...
, Australian politician - Benjamin "Benny" David GoodmanBenny GoodmanBenjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...
, renowned Jewish American jazz clarinetist and band leader of Jewish Polish/Lithuanian origin - Billy GoodmanBilly GoodmanWilliam Dale Goodman was an infielder and left-handed batter who played Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox , Baltimore Orioles , Chicago White Sox and Houston Colt .45's ....
, American baseball player with the Boston Red Sox - Bobby GoodmanBobby GoodmanRobert O. Goodman is a former A-6 Intruder Bombardier Navigator and class of 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He was shot down over Lebanon on December 4, 1983. Captured upon ejection from his stricken plane, he was held captive for 30 days...
, American Army captive in Lebanon
- Cameron GoodmanCameron Goodman-Biography:She was born in Texas but grew up in Washington D.C. She attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. after transferring from Syracuse University in New York.-Career:...
, American actress - Carolyn (Elizabeth Drucker) Goodman, Jewish American civil rights advocate
- Carolyn G. Goodman, educator, Las Vegas, Nevada mayor
- Charles M. GoodmanCharles M. GoodmanCharles M. Goodman was an American architect who made a name for his modern designs in suburban Washington, D.C. after World War II. While his work has a regional feel, he ignored the colonial revival look so popular in Virginia...
, American architect - Clive GoodmanClive GoodmanClive Goodman is a former royal editor and reporter for the News of the World. He was arrested in August 2006 and jailed in January 2007 for intercepting mobile phone messages involving members of the Royal Household.Goodman initially worked as a journalist on Nigel Dempster's gossip column in the...
, British royal reporter
- Dave GoodmanDave GoodmanDave Goodman was a record producer and musician, perhaps best known as the live sound engineer for Sex Pistols, and the producer of three of their studio demo sessions.-Sex Pistols:...
, record producer and musician - David Goodman (disambiguation)
- Dic GoodmanDic GoodmanRichard Goodman Jones is a Welsh poet, better known as Dic Goodman. He is a resident of Mynytho on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd.- His life :...
, real name: Richard Goodman Jones, Welsh poet - Richard "Dickie" Dorian GoodmanDickie GoodmanRichard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman was an American music producer.-Career:In June 1956 Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer", which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio show...
, composer - Dolores "Dody" GoodmanDody GoodmanDolores "Dody" Goodman was an American character actress known for her playing the mother of the title character Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman...
, American actress - Donald "Don" Ralph GoodmanDon GoodmanDon Goodman is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Career:Born in Leeds, Goodman played for Bradford City, West Bromwich Albion, Sunderland, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Barnsley, Motherwell, Walsall, Exeter City, Doncaster Rovers and Stafford...
, English football player
- E. Urner GoodmanE. Urner GoodmanEdward Urner Goodman was an influential leader in the Boy Scouts of America movement for much of the twentieth century. Goodman was the national program director from 1931 until 1951, during the organization's formative years of significant growth when the Cub Scouting and Exploring programs were...
, leader in the Boy Scouts of America - Edmund GoodmanEdmund GoodmanEdmund Goodman had his playing career cut short by an injury which meant he had to have his leg amputated. After this he became Assistant Secretary to his club, Aston Villa. When Crystal Palace was founded they asked Aston Villa for help in setting up the club, Villa offered Palace Goodman and he...
, British football manager - Edwin A. GoodmanEdwin A. GoodmanEdwin A. Goodman, PC, OC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and political figure.Goodman was called to the bar in 1947 and was one of the founding partners of Goodmans LLP, a Toronto law firm as well as a life bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada...
, Canadian politician - Elinor Mary GoodmanElinor GoodmanElinor Mary Goodman is a UK journalist, best known as Political Editor of Channel 4 News from 1988 to 2005. She was educated at the Manor House School, an independent school in Surrey, England....
, British journalist, formerly Political Editor of Channel 4 News - Ellen GoodmanEllen GoodmanEllen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.- Career :Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967.In 1998, Goodman received the Elijah...
, Pulitzer Prize winning Jewish American columnist
- Felicitas Danels Goodman, nee DanelsFelicitas GoodmanFelicitas D. Goodman was a Hungarian-born linguist and anthropologist.She was a highly regarded expert in linguistics and anthropology and researched and explored ritual body postures for many years. She studied the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues" in Pentecostal congregations in Mexico...
, Hungarian linguist and anthropologist - Francis Adam Goodman, ne GutmannFrancis Adam GoodmanFrancis Adam Goodman served the public most of his life as a politician and as a Union Army soldier. He was born March 3, 1827 in Rimbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, the son of Wilhelm and Mary Gutmann...
, German-American politician - Frank GoodmanFrank GoodmanFrank Goodman was an American Broadway theatre publicist.Goodman began in theatre during the Great Depression, when he worked for the Federal Theater Project under the Works Projects Administration. From 1939, when he started his career, to 1961, Mr. Goodman represented more than 50 Broadway...
, American theatre publicist - Gabriel GoodmanGabriel GoodmanGabriel Goodman was the Dean of Westminster and the re-founder of Ruthin School, in Ruthin, Denbighshire.-Early years:...
, Dean of Westminster - George GoodmanGeorge GoodmanGeorge Jerome Waldo Goodman , is an American economist, author, and broadcast economics commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith . He also writes fiction under the name "George Goodman."-Background, education, and career:Goodman was born in St...
, American economist and author - Godfrey GoodmanGodfrey GoodmanGodfrey Goodman was the Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, and a member of the Protestant Church. He was the son of Godfrey Goodman and Jane Croxton, landed gentry living in Wales...
, British Anglican bishop - Helen Catherine GoodmanHelen GoodmanHelen Catherine Goodman is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland since 2005, and was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for in the Department for Work and Pensions until 2010 with responsibility for Child Poverty and childcare.-Early...
, British politician - Henry GoodmanHenry GoodmanHenry Goodman is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.In 1988, he played George Green's brother-in-law Cyril in London's Burning. He played character roles in episodes of the popular UK police drama The Bill...
, British theatre actor - Irwin GoodmanIrwin GoodmanIrwin Goodman was a popular Finnish rock and folk singer. In the late 1960s he was widely known as a protest singer. He recorded over 300 songs, most of which were his own compositions, with lyrics written by Vexi Salmi...
, real name: Antti Yrjö Hammarberg, popular Finnish singer - Ival GoodmanIval GoodmanIval Richard Goodman was an All-Star right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs...
, American baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds
- Jack GoodmanJack GoodmanJack Goodman is a Republican member of the Missouri Senate, representing the 29th District since 2005. He is currently the Assistant Majority Floor Leader. Previously he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2003 through 2005....
, American politician - James Goodman (disambiguation)
- Jerry GoodmanJerry GoodmanJerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Goodman actually began his musical career as The Flock's roadie before joining the band on violin. Trained in the conservatory, both of his parents were...
, American violinist - John Goodman (disambiguation)John Goodman (disambiguation)John Goodman , is an actor.John Goodman may also refer to:* John Goodman Dean of Wells, 1548 - 1550* John Goodman , priest* John Goodman , Motorcycle pioneer...
- Jon GoodmanJon GoodmanJonathan "Jon" Goodman is an Anglo-Irish former professional footballer, and was the Sports Scientist at Reading before leaving to concentrate on his consultancy business....
, British football player with Millwall - Joseph Goodman, gaming professional and writer
- Julia GoodmanJulia GoodmanJulia Goodman née Salaman was a British portrait painter.The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman and Alice Cowan, she was one of fourteen siblings and first studied painting under Robert Faulkner, himself a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds...
, Jewish British portrait painter - Julian GoodmanJulian GoodmanJulian Goodman is a former president of the National Broadcasting Company . His hometown was Glasgow, Kentucky.His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.-References:...
, CEO of NBC - Judge GoodmanJudge GoodmanChief Judge Clarence Goodman is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd stories published in the British comic 2000 AD. He appeared in the first episode of Judge Dredd in March 1977 , and was the first regularly recurring supporting character.-Biography:Goodman was joint deputy chief judge at the...
, character from the Judge Dredd comics
- Ken GoodmanKen GoodmanKenneth Goodman is Professor Emeritus, Language Reading and Culture, at the University of Arizona. He is best known for developing the theory underlying the literacy philosophy of whole language.- Biography :...
, educational researcher - Leisa GoodmanLeisa GoodmanLeisa Goodman, as of 2005, served as the Human Rights Director for the Church of Scientology International. She had previously served as a spokesperson for the Church of Scientology, and as its media relations director....
, Scientologist - Len GoodmanLen GoodmanLeonard Gordon 'Len' Goodman is a British professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He is a leading personality on television dance programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars and runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.-Early life and career:Goodman was...
, dance judge, best known as a panel member on Strictly Come Dancing - Linda GoodmanLinda GoodmanMary Alice Kemery popularly known as Linda Goodman was a New York Times bestselling American astrologer and poet.-Early life and background:...
, American astrologer and poet - Lizbeth GoodmanLizbeth GoodmanProf. Lizbeth Goodman is the Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and founder director of the and the MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre, formerly at the University of East London, England, and elsewhere, now at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.Lizbeth Goodman founded the...
, British academic - Louise GoodmanLouise GoodmanLouise Goodman is a British commentator and reporter from Alresford who worked on ITV's Formula One coverage until it ceased at the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix...
, British television presenter
- Mariama GoodmanMariama GoodmanMariama Goodman is an English dancer and singer who has been a member of the bands Solid HarmoniE and the Honeyz but started her career as a dancer.-Biography:...
, British singer - Mark GoodmanMark GoodmanMark Goodman is a radio DJ, TV personality, and actor. He is best known as one of the original five VJs on MTV, from 1981-1987. He was supposed to be the first of the five to be broadcast at MTV's premier on August 1, 1981...
, DJ and MTV VJ - Martin Goodman (disambiguation)
- Morris GoodmanMorris GoodmanMorris Goodman was an American scientist known for his work in molecular evolution and molecular systematics...
, American scientist - Nelson GoodmanNelson GoodmanHenry Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics.-Career:...
, philosopher
- Oscar GoodmanOscar GoodmanOscar Baylin Goodman is an American lawyer and politician. He was the mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada from 1999 to 2011. Mayor Goodman is an Independent and a former member of the Democratic Party.-Biography:...
, Jewish American politician, Las Vegas, Nevada mayor - Paul Goodman (disambiguation)
- Percy GoodmanPercy GoodmanPercy Arnold Goodman was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the both the first two touring sides to England in 1900 and 1906. He was one of the top West Indian batsmen of his day and was also a useful medium pace bowler, especially in his younger days...
, West Indian cricketer
- Rick GoodmanRick GoodmanRick Goodman is a video game developer and the founder and owner of the now-defunct Stainless Steel Studios. He is best known for the RTS games he created, such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth.-Career:...
, video games developer known for Ages of Empires - Roy GoodmanRoy GoodmanRoy Goodman is a conductor and violinist, specialising in the performance and direction of early music...
, British classic conductor - Ruth Goodman
- Ruth Goodman (historian)Ruth Goodman (historian)Ruth Goodman is a British freelance historian of the Early Modern period specialising in offering advice to museums and heritage attractions. She is a specialist in British social history and is a presenter of the BBC educational documentary series Victorian Farm, Victorian Pharmacy and Edwardian...
- Saul Goodman (disambiguation)
- Saul GoodmanSaul GoodmanSaul Goodman was a timpanist in the New York Philharmonic orchestra from 1926 to 1972. Saul learned under the instruction of Alfred Friese, whom he succeeded as principal timpanist in the New York Philharmonic...
, Jewish timpanist - Scott GoodmanScott GoodmanScott Goodman is an Australian butterfly swimmer, who competed at the Atlanta Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 200m butterfly....
, Australian butterfly swimmer, Olympic medalist - Shirley GoodmanShirley GoodmanShirley Goodman was an American R&B singer known best for "Shirley and Lee", a 1950s R&B duo. Later in her career, she had a resurgence with the disco hit, "Shame, Shame, Shame" in the 1970s...
, American R&B singer - Steve GoodmanSteve GoodmanSteve Goodman was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.-Personal life:...
, Jewish American folk artist
- Tamir GoodmanTamir GoodmanTamir Goodman , dubbed by Sports Illustrated magazine as the "Jewish Jordan", is a retired Orthodox Jewish basketball player.-Biography:...
, Jewish American basketball player
- Vestal GoodmanVestal GoodmanVestal Goodman was a singer who performed in the Southern Gospel genre for more than half a century. She is known both as a solo performer and as a founding member of official The Happy Goodman Family, the first was actually her husband and his brothers and sisters, one of the pioneering groups in...
, American gospel singer, wife of Howard - Walter GoodmanWalter GoodmanWalter Goodman was a British painter, illustrator and author.The son of British portrait painter Julia Salaman and London linen draper and town councillor, Louis Goodman , he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy in London, where he was admitted as a student in 1851...
, Jewish British painter and author - William Goodman (disambiguation)
- Woody Goodman, character in the TV series Veronica Mars