Goodwin (surname)
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  • Albert Goodwin
    Albert Goodwin
    Albert "Ginger" Goodwin inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. This strike preceded the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, an important moment in Canadian labour history....

     (1887–1918), Canadian labour leader
  • Alfred Goodwin
    Alfred Goodwin
    Alfred Theodore Goodwin is a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was chief judge of that court in 1988-91.-Education and professional career:...

     (born 1923), American Federal judge
  • Albert Goodwin
    Albert Goodwin (artist)
    Albert Goodwin was a notable English landscape painter specialising in watercolours. His work shows the influences of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood....

     (1845-1932), English artist
  • Alice Goodwin
    Alice Goodwin
    Alice Goodwin is a glamour model from Stoke-on-Trent, England.Alice Goodwin attended Newcastle-under-Lyme School and later on Keele University studying English and Education before she was discovered by talent scouts from Daily Star while sunbathing on Bournemouth beach...

     English female model
  • Andrew Goodwin
    Andrew Goodwin (tenor)
    Andrew Goodwin is an Australian born operatic tenor.-Early years:Goodwin was born in Sydney, Australia, and began learning the violin at the age of five. His father, a school teacher, was a fan of classical music and collector of opera gramophone records. While singing in St...

     (born), Australian tenor
  • Archie Goodwin (comics)
    Archie Goodwin (comics)
    Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work...

     (1937–1998), American comic book writer, editor, and artist
  • Betty Goodwin
    Betty Goodwin
    Betty Roodish Goodwin, OC was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.- Early life :...

     Canadian artist
  • Brian Goodwin
    Brian Goodwin
    Brian Carey Goodwin was a Canadian mathematician and biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Open University and a key founder of the field of theoretical biology.He made key contributions to the foundations of biomathematics, complex systems and generative models in developmental biology...

     (1931-2009), Canadian mathematician
  • Bronx Goodwin
    Bronx Goodwin
    Bronx Goodwin is an Australian rugby league player who currently plays for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League. He is the son of former Australian International Ted Goodwin, brother Luke and Bryson and brother-in-law of Eels player Joel Reddy.-Playing career:Originally a...

    , Australian rugby league footballer (son of Ted Goodwin)
  • Bryson Goodwin
    Bryson Goodwin
    Bryson Goodwin is a New Zealand-Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs of the National Rugby League. He previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks...

    , Australian rugby league footballer (son of Ted Goodwin)
  • Carte Goodwin
    Carte Goodwin
    Carte Patrick Goodwin is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Goodwin was appointed by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin on July 16, 2010, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Robert Byrd. ...

    , American politician from West Virginia
  • Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
    Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
    Charles Wycliffe Goodwin was a British Egyptologist, lawyer and judge.Goodwin was born in 1817. He studied at St Catherine's and graduated, in 1838, 6th Classic and senior optime in Mathematics. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1843 and in 1865 became assistant judge of the British...

     (1817–1878), British egyptologist and lawyer
  • Dan Goodwin
    Dan Goodwin
    American Dan Goodwin is a building, rock, and sports climber, as well as a stage-four cancer survivor, originally from Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, and living as of 2010 in Lake Tahoe, California.-Building climber:...

    , American amateur stuntman
  • Denis Goodwin
    Denis Goodwin
    Denis Goodwin was a radio and television comedy scriptwriter and actor, best known for his writing partnership with Bob Monkhouse, with whom he also compered the Smash Hits programme on Radio Luxembourg....

     (1929–1975), British comedy writer
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and historian, and an oft-seen political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S...

     (born 1943), American historian
  • Elaine M. Goodwin
    Elaine M. Goodwin
    Elaine M. Goodwin is a British author and mosaic artist. She has exhibited extensively, written several works on mosaics and design, and was founder president of the British Association of Modern Mosaics...

    , British mosaic artist
  • Francis Goodwin
    Francis Goodwin
    Francis Goodwin was an English architect, best known for his many provincial churches in the Gothic revival style, civic buildings such as the first Manchester Town Hall and Macclesfield town hall , plus country houses such as Lissadell House, County Sligo .Goodwin was born at King's Lynn,...

     (1784–1835), English architect
  • Fred Goodwin
    Fred Goodwin
    Sir Frederick Anderson Goodwin CA, FCIBS is a Scottish chartered accountant and former banker who was chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group between 2001 and 2009....

     (born 1958), Royal Bank of Scotland executive
  • Freddie Goodwin
    Freddie Goodwin
    Freddie Goodwin is a former English professional football player and manager.-Career:A half back, Goodwin was signed as a trainee from Cheshire Schoolboys by Manchester United on 1 October 1953 as one of the Busby Babes. He made his senior debut for the club on 20 November 1954 against Arsenal...

     (born 1933), English football player
  • Ginnifer Goodwin (born 1978), American actress from TV show Big Love and other works
  • Gordon Goodwin
    Gordon Goodwin
    Gordon L. Goodwin is a Grammy award-winning American studio pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and conductor. He now lives in Southern California with his wife Lisa, daughter Madison and two sons, Trevor and Garrison.- Early years :...

     (born 1955), American jazz pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and conductor
  • Gordon Goodwin (athlete)
    Gordon Goodwin (athlete)
    George Reginald "Gordon" Goodwin was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 10 kilometre walk....

     (1895-?), a British athlete
  • Hannibal Goodwin
    Hannibal Goodwin
    Hannibal Goodwin , was an Episcopal priest at the House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey, patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which was used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, an early machine for viewing animation.-Biography:He was born in...

     (1822-1900), American Episcopal priest and film technology inventor
  • Harold Goodwin
    Harold Goodwin
    Harold Goodwin was an American film actor who performed in over 225 films.Born in Peoria, Illinois, Goodwin began his film career while still in his teens in the 1915 film short Mike's Elopement. One of his most popular roles of the silent era was that of Jeff Brown in the 1927 Buster Keaton...

     (1902-1987), American film actor
  • Harold Goodwin (English actor)
    Harold Goodwin (English actor)
    Harold Goodwin was an English actor born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England.Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years...

     (1917-2004), English film and television actor
  • Harold Goodwin (American football) (born 1973), American football coach
  • Henry B. Goodwin
    Henry B. Goodwin
    Henry Buergel Goodwin was a Swedish photographer and lecturer for nordic languages at the University of Uppsala born in Germany....

     (1878-1931), Swedish photographer and expert on Nordic languages
  • Harold L. Goodwin
    Harold L. Goodwin
    Harold Leland Goodwin was an American writer.-Biography and writing career:Harold Leland Goodwin was a Government official and the author of forty-three books, including the Rick Brant Science-Adventure Series....

     (1914-1990), American writer
  • Ichabod Goodwin
    Ichabod Goodwin
    Ichabod Goodwin was the 27th governor of the state of New Hampshire from 1859 to 1861.Goodwin was born at North Berwick, Maine and educated in South Berwick...

     (1796-1882), American politician, former Governor of New Hampshire
  • Jeff Goodwin
    Jeff Goodwin
    Jeff Goodwin is a professor of sociology at New York University. He holds a BA, MA and PhD from Harvard University.His research interests include visual sociology, social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism...

    , American sociology expert
  • Jim Goodwin
    Jim Goodwin (baseball)
    James Patrick Goodwin was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 1", 170 lb., he batted and threw left handed.Born in St...

    , American baseball player
  • Jimi Goodwin
    Jimi Goodwin
    Jimi Goodwin is the bassist, vocalist and guitarist for Doves. Before their incarnation as Doves, the three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub....

     (born 1970), English rock musician (The Doves)
  • John Goodwin
    John Goodwin (preacher)
    John Goodwin was an English preacher, theologian and prolific author of significant books.-Early life:Goodwin was born in Norfolk and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. and obtained a fellowship on 10 November 1617. He left the university and married, took orders and...

     (1594-1665), English preacher and religious writer
  • John B. Goodwin
    John B. Goodwin
    John Benjamin Goodwin was born in Cobb County, Georgia, USA the son of and attended school in Powder Springs.He moved to Atlanta in 1870 and studied law at Gartrell & Stephens and a year later was admitted to the bar....

     (1850-1921), former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
  • John Noble Goodwin
    John Noble Goodwin
    John Noble Goodwin was a United States attorney and politician who served as the first Governor of Arizona Territory...

     (1824-1887), American politician, former Governor of Arizona and U.S. Representative from Maine & Arizona
  • Jonathan Goodwin (1980-), British television escapologist
  • Ken Goodwin
    Ken Goodwin (comedian)
    Ken Goodwin is an English comedian best known for his performances on the ITV Television show The Comedians.His performance style is nervous and stuttering...

     (1933-), English comedian
  • Laurel Goodwin
    Laurel Goodwin
    Laurel Goodwin is a former American actress.A child model, Goodwin made her screen debut as the love interest of Elvis Presley in the 1962 film, Girls! Girls! Girls!. Between then and 1969, she appeared in three more films and as a guest actor on several television series, including the role of...

     (1942-), American actress
  • Matt Goodwin
    Matt Goodwin
    Matthew Goodwin is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s.-Playing career:From 1983-89 Matt Goodwin played a total of 108 games for the Penrith Panthers, in the process scoring a total of 10 tries for the club. A tough forward who showed loyalty to the Panthers, Goodwin...

    , former Australian rugby league player
  • Murray Goodwin
    Murray Goodwin
    Murray William Goodwin is a cricketer who played 19 Tests and 71 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe. He is a right-handed top order batsman strong on the back-foot and a good cutter and puller of the ball....

     (born 1972), Zimbabwean Test cricketer
  • Nathaniel Carl Goodwin
    Nathaniel Carl Goodwin
    Nathaniel Carl Goodwin was an American actor and vaudevillian born in Boston. While clerk in a large shop he studied for the stage and made his first appearance in 1874 at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston in Stuart Robson's company as the newsboy in Joseph Bradford's Law in New York...

     (1857-1919), American actor and vaudevillian
  • Philip R. Goodwin
    Philip R. Goodwin
    Philip R. Goodwin was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in depictions of wildlife, the outdoors, fishing, hunting and the Old American West. He provided illustrations for numerous books and magazines, as well as for commercial items, such as posters, advertisements and calendars...

     (1881-1935), American painter and illustrator
  • Sir Reg Goodwin
    Reg Goodwin
    Sir Reginald Eustace Goodwin was a British politician. He was Leader of the Greater London Council from 1973-77. On the moderate wing of the Labour Party, he nonetheless favoured public control of utilities.-Family background:Goodwin was from a middle-class family of five and was born in Streatham...

     (1908-1986), British politician
  • Ron Goodwin
    Ron Goodwin
    Ronald Alfred Goodwin was a British composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years....

     (1925-2003), British composer and conductor
  • Richard M. Goodwin
    Richard M. Goodwin
    Richard M. Goodwin was an American mathematician and economist. He was born in Indiana.Goodwin received his BA and PhD at Harvard, and he taught there from 1942 until 1950. He taught at the University of Cambridge until 1979 and the University of Siena until 1984.Goodwin worked on the interaction...

     (1913), US American economist
  • Richard N. Goodwin
    Richard N. Goodwin
    Richard N. Goodwin is an American writer who may be best known as an advisor and speechwriter to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy.-Life and career:...

     (born 1931), American writer & speechwriter
  • Sid Goodwin
    Sid Goodwin
    Sid Goodwin , born on a Wednesday in November, was Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 40s. He played on the wing for the Balmain and Newtown clubs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership and also represented New South Wales and Australia.In 1935 Goodwin took...

     (1915–1980), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Simon Goodwin
    Simon Goodwin
    Simon Goodwin is a former Australian rules footballer, who is a dual premiership player with the Adelaide Football Club and is now an assistant coach at the Essendon Football Club.-Early career :...

     (1976), Australian rules footballer
  • Thomas Goodwin
    Thomas Goodwin
    Thomas Goodwin , known as 'the Elder', was an English Puritan theologian and preacher, and an important leader of religious Independents. He served as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and was imposed by Parliament as President of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1650...

     (1600-1680), British Puritan preacher
  • Tom Goodwin
    Tom Goodwin
    Thomas Jones Goodwin is a former Major League Baseball player. He attended Central High School in Fresno, and then went on to play for Fresno State University...

     (born 1968-), American professional baseball player
  • Trudie Goodwin
    Trudie Goodwin
    Trudie Goodwin is an English actress best known for playing Sergeant June Ackland in the high-profile British television police drama The Bill from 1984 to 2007. On September 7th, 2011 it was announced that Goodwin is to join the long-running soap Emmerdale...

     (born 1951), English actress
  • W. A. R. Goodwin
    W. A. R. Goodwin
    The Reverend Dr. William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin was the rector of Bruton Parish Church who began the 20th century effort which resulted in the preservation and restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia...

     (1869-1939), American preacher who led Colonial Williamsburg preservation effort
  • Wayne Goodwin
    Wayne Goodwin
    George Wayne Goodwin was elected North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance in the 2008 election. Goodwin previously served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-eighth House district, including constituents in Richmond and Stanly counties...

    , American politician, current in North Carolina State Assembly
  • William Nelson Goodwin
    William Nelson Goodwin
    William Nelson Goodwin was a United States federal judge.Born in McKenna, Washington, Goodwin received a B.A. from Washington State College in 1931 and an LL.B. from the University of Oregon Law School in 1934. He was a Salesman, Washington State from 1934 to 1937. He was a Deputy prosecutor,...

     (1909–1975), American Federal judge
  • William Nelson Goodwin, Jr., American engineer at Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, inventor of one of the first photo-electric exposure meters (1932) and the system of Weston film speed ratings, later awarded the Howard N. Potts Medal
    Howard N. Potts Medal
    The Howard N. Potts Medal was a science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Also see The Franklin Institute Awards.-Laureates:Following people received the Howard N. Potts Medal:...

     (1958)
  • William Watson Goodwin
    William Watson Goodwin
    William Watson Goodwin , American classical scholar, was born in Concord, Massachusetts - son of Hersey Bradford Goodwin and Lucrettia Watson....

     (1831-1912), American classics scholar

Other uses

  • Archie Goodwin (fictional detective)
    Archie Goodwin (fictional detective)
    Archie Goodwin is a fictional character and detective in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries. The witty voice of all the stories, he recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 to 1975 . He lives in Nero Wolfe's brownstone in New York City.Archie was born on October 23 in Chillicothe, Ohio,...

     from the Nero Wolfe books
  • Caitlyn Goodwin (Magical DoReMi) fictional character from the Ojamajo Doremi Japanese series
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