Gould (name)

Gould is a surname that is sourced mainly to Scotland, England, and Ireland. It is possibly linked to the Celts, Normans, or Vikings, but more likely is 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

Acting

Alexander Gould (b. 1994), American actor
Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
Elliott Gould (b. 1938), American actor
Harold Gould (1923–2010), American actor
Jadin Gould (b. 1998), American actress
James Nutcombe Gould (1849–1899), English stage actor
Jason Gould (b. 1966), American actor, writer and director
Kelly Gould, American actress
Peter Gould (writer), American television drama screenwriter
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
Michael C. Gould, 18th Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy

Music

Kevin Gould (b. 1948) singer songwriter recording artist and Pastor.

Billy Gould (b. 1963), American musician and producer
Two British musicians, both brothers and members of the band Level 42:
- Boon Gould (b. 1955), guitarist
- Phil Gould (b. 1957), drummer
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
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
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 (1941 - 2002), American paleontologist and science writer.
Henry W. Gould, American mathematician.

Sports

Al Gould (1888–1935), American baseball player
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
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 Chicago Bears
Shane Gould, Australian swimmer

Other

Alan J. Gould (1898-1993), American newspaper editor
Bob Gould (activist) (1937–2011), Australian activist and bookseller
Brian Gould (1979-present), entertainer and wrestling promoter ^[3]
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
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
Jonny_Gould, English Radio Sports Broadcaster on Smooth_Radio
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