Gould (name)

Gould (pronounced [gu:ld]) is a surname. Its origin is unknown but is sourced to Britain, Ireland and Northern Europe. It is possibly linked to the Normans, Vikings and/or Celts, but more likely Anglo-Saxons ^[1]. It is a variant of the surname "Gold".^[2]

Contents 1 Gould as family name 1.1 Acting 1.2 Business 1.3 Military 1.4 Music 1.5 Politics 1.6 Science 1.7 Sports 1.8 Other 2 Gould as middle name 3 References 4 See also

Gould as family name

Acting

• Alexander Gould (b. 1994), American actor
• Elliott Gould (b. 1938), American actor
• Harold Gould (1923–2010), American actor
• James Nutcombe Gould (1849–1899), English stage actor
• Jason Gould (b. 1966), American actor, writer and director
• Kelly Gould, American actress
• Sandra Gould (1916–1999), American actress and comedienne

Business

• Andrew Gould (b. 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

Military

• Davidge Gould (1758–1847), Royal Navy Admiral
• Gerard Muirhead-Gould (1889–1945), Royal Navy Rear Admiral
• Mick Gould, film and TV technical adviser and former member of the Special Air Service
• 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
• P. Pierce Gould, Lt. Col., 1st Commanding Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment (1962–1964)
• Michael C. Gould, 18th Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy
• Robert N. Gould, Cpl., Canadian Armed Forces 3 P.P.C.L.I

Music

• Billy Gould (b. 1963), American musician and producer
• 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 (b. 1957), British drummer
• Stephen Gould, American tenor

Politics

• Arthur R. Gould (1857–1946), U.S. Senator
• Bryan Gould (b. 1939), British politician
• Joseph Gould (1808–1886), Canadian, farmer, businessman and politician
• Monica Gould (b. 1957), former Australian politician
• Philip Gould (b. 1950), British political advisor

Science

• Augustus Addison Gould, American conchologist
• Benjamin A. Gould, American astronomer
• Carl Freylinghausen Gould, American architect
• Cecil Gould, an English art historian
• Elizabeth Gould (psychologist), professor of psychology at Princeton University's
• Gordon Gould, American physicist, inventor of the laser
• John Gould, English ornithologist
  • Gould's Mouse (Pseudomys gouldii), lived in eastern inland Australia
  • Gould's Finch (Gouldian Finch), Chloebia gouldiae, 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.
• Rupert Gould - British horologist
• Stephen Jay Gould - American paleontologist and science writer.

Sports

• Arthur "Monkey" Gould, Welsh international rugby captain
• Bert Gould, Welsh international rugby player
• Bob Gould, Welsh international rugby player
• Bob Gould, former NHL hockey player, two time Selke nominee
• Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• Carol Gould, English long-distance runner
• 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 Chicago Bears
• Shane Gould, Australian swimmer

Other

• Alan J. Gould (1898-1993), American newspaper editor
• Bob Gould (activist) (1937–2011), Australian activist and bookseller
• Chester Gould, creator of popular comic book character Dick Tracy
• Edward Sherman Gould, 19th-century American author, translator and critic
• Ezra Palmer Gould, minister and biblical scholar
• Francis Carruthers Gould, British caricaturist and political cartoonist
• Frederick James Gould, English teacher, writer and pioneer secular humanist
• Gerald Gould, English writer, journalist, reviewer, essayist and poet
• James Gould (jurist), American law school professor
• Hal Gould, American photographer and gallery curator
• Matthew Gould (born 1971), British Ambassador to Israel
• Nathaniel Gould, (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
• William Gould (naturalist), English cleric and naturalist
• William S. Baring-Gould, scholar of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels

Gould as middle name

• James Gould Cozzens
• John Gould Fletcher
• Daniel Gould Fowle
• Jacob Gould Schurman
• John Gould Stephenson
• Robert Gould Shaw

References

See also

• Goulding (disambiguation)
• Gulda

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