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 is more likely 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.^[1] Gould is a variant of the surname "Gold" which is a very ancient name found in Scotland and England.^[2]

Gould as family name[]

Disambiguation pages[]

• Arthur Gould (disambiguation), multiple people

Acting[]

• Alexander Gould (born 1994), American actor
• Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
• Desiree Gould (1945–2021), American actress
• Elliott Gould (born 1938), American actor
• Harold Gould (1923–2010), American actor
• James Nutcombe Gould (1849–1899), English stage actor
• Jason Gould (born 1966), American actor, writer and director
• Julia Gould (1824–1893), English-born stage actress and singer
• Kelly Gould, American actress
• Mitzi Gould (born 1915), American actress
• Nolan Gould, (born 1998), American actor
• Peter Gould, American television drama screenwriter
• Sandra Gould (1916–1999), American actress and comedian

Arts and letters[]

• Alan J. Gould (1898–1993), American newspaper editor
• 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
• Elizabeth Porter Gould (1848–1906), American poet and author
• Emily Gould (born 1981), American author
• Francis Carruthers Gould, British caricaturist and political cartoonist
• Gerald Gould, English writer, journalist, reviewer, essayist and poet
• Hal Gould, American photographer and gallery curator
• Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1865), American poet
• J.J. Gould, Canadian-American journalist
• Joan Gould (born 1927), American author and journalist
• Karen L. Gould (born 1948) American scholar of French-Canadian literature, president of Brooklyn College
• Nat Gould, English journalist and writer of horse racing novels
• Sabine Baring-Gould, English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar
• Steven Gould, American science fiction writer
• Thomas R. Gould, American sculptor
• Warwick Gould (born 1947), Australian literary scholar

Business[]

• Andrew Gould (born 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
• James Childs Gould (1880–1944), British/American industrialist
• Kingdon Gould Jr. (1924–2018), American businessman and diplomat
• Kingdon Gould Sr. (1887–1945), American businessman

Military[]

• Charles Gilbert Gould, Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Davidge Gould (1758–1847), Royal Navy Admiral
• Gerard Muirhead-Gould (1889–1945), Royal Navy Rear Admiral
• Herbert Gould, Royal Air Force World War I flying ace
• Michael C. Gould, 18th Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy
• 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

Music[]

• Billy Gould (born 1963), American musician and producer
• Boon Gould (1955–2019), guitarist; brother of Phil
• 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
• Phil Gould (musician) (born 1957), drummer; brother of Boon
• Stephen Gould (tenor), American tenor

Politics[]

• Arthur R. Gould (1857–1946), U.S. senator
• Sir Basil Gould (1883–1956), British Political Officer
• Benjamin Gould (politician) (1849–1922), South Australian MHA
• Bryan Gould (born 1939), British politician
• Georgia Gould (politician), British politician, daughter of Philip
• James Childs Gould (1880–1944) industrialist and British Member of Parliament between 1918 and 1924
• James J. Gould (1823–1909), Michigan state representative
• John Gould (MP), British politician and Director of the East India Company
• Joseph Gould (politician, born 1808) (1808–1886), farmer, businessman and political figure in Ontario, Canada
• Joseph Gould (politician, born 1911) (1911–1965), 20th century Ontario Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament
• Karina Gould (born 1987), Canadian MP, Burlington, Ont. Minister of Democratic Institutions.
• Monica Gould (born 1957), former Australian politician
• Nathaniel Gould (1661–1728), British politician and Governor of the Bank of England
• Nathaniel Gould (died 1738), British politician
• Philip Gould (born 1950), British political advisor
• Robert S. Gould (1826–1904), Texas Supreme Court Justice and secession colonel

Science[]

• Alfred Pearce Gould, British physician
• Alice Bache Gould (1868–1953), American mathematician, philanthropist, and historian
• Augustus Addison Gould, American conchologist
• Benjamin Apthorp Gould, American astronomer
• Carl Freylinghausen Gould, American architect
• Cecil Gould, English art historian
• Charles N. Gould, American geologist
• Elizabeth Gould (psychologist), professor of psychology at Princeton University
• Gordon Gould, American physicist, inventor of the laser
• Henry W. Gould, American mathematician
• John Gould (1804–1881), English ornithologist and artist
  • Gould's mouse (Pseudomys gouldii), native to eastern inland Australia
  • Gouldian finch, 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.
• Rebecca Gould, American writer, translator, and Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature
• Rupert Gould, British horologist
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist and science writer
• Todd Gould, American psychiatrist
• William Gould (naturalist), English naturalist and cleric

Sports[]

• Al Gould (1888–1935), American baseball player
• Arthur Gould (rugby player), Welsh international rugby captain
• Bert Gould, Welsh international rugby player
• Bob Gould (rugby player), Welsh international rugby player
• Bobby Gould (ice hockey), former NHL hockey player, two time Selke nominee
• Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• Carol Gould (athlete), 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 San Francisco 49ers
• Shane Gould, Australian swimmer
• Wally Gould (1938–2018), English footballer
• Ian Gould, English Cricketer and Umpire

Other[]

• Bob Gould (activist) (1937–2011), Australian activist and bookseller
• Ezra Palmer Gould, minister and biblical scholar
• Frederick James Gould, English teacher, writer and pioneer secular humanist
• Harry Gould (editor) (died 1974), of Tribune, an Australian communist newspaper
• James Gould (jurist), American law school professor
• Jay Gould (1836–1892), railroad developer and speculator
• Jonny Gould, English radio sports broadcaster on Smooth Radio
• Louisa Gould, Jewish activist
• Matthew Gould (born 1971), British Ambassador to Israel
• Sara K. Gould, American feminist and philanthropist
• Steven B. Gould (born 1966), American lawyer and judge
• Thomas Gould (Baptist) (c. 1619 – 1675), first pastor of the First Baptist Church of Boston, Massachusetts
• William S. Baring-Gould (1913–1967), studied the Sherlock Holmes character

Gould as middle name[]

• James Gould Cozzens
• John Gould Fletcher
• Daniel Gould Fowle
• Jacob Gould Schurman
• Robert Gould Shaw, colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, one of the first African American Infantries of the Civil War
• John Gould Stephenson
• Ellen Gould White

See also[]

• Goulding (disambiguation)
• Gulda

References[]

Surname list

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