Goody is both a surname and an honorific analogous to modern-day “Mrs,” as well as a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
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Gordon Goody
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (worth about £ million in ) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, ...
(1930–2016), British criminal, involved in the Great Train Robbery
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Jack Goody
Sir John Rankine Goody (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.
Among his main publica ...
(1919–2015), British social anthropologist
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Jade Goody
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 June 1981 – 22 March 2009) was an English media personality. She was a contestant on the Big Brother (British TV series) series 3, third series of the Channel 4 reality show ''Big Brother (British TV series) ...
(1981–2009), British reality television star
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Joan E. Goody (1935–2009), American architect
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Laila Goody
Laila Elin Goody (born 22 March 1971) is a Norwegian actress. She was born to an English father who worked in the oil industry and a Norwegian mother. She was born in Stavanger and grew up in Rosendal, Hordaland, between the ages of two and ten ...
(born 1971), Norwegian actress
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Lancelot John Goody
Launcelot John Goody (5 June 1908 – 13 May 1992), an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth, serving from 1968 to 1983. Prior to his election as Archbishop of Perth, Goody served as the inaugural Bi ...
(1908–1992), Roman Catholic bishop then archbishop of Perth
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Nick Goody
Nicholas Gunnar Goody (born July 6, 1991) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers.
Amateur career
Goody attended University Hi ...
(born 1991), American baseball player
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Richard Goody
Richard Mead Goody (19 June 1921 – 3 August 2023) was a British-American atmospheric physicist and professor of planetary physics at Harvard University. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Early life and education
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(1921–2023), emeritus professor of planetary physics at Harvard University
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Roger S Goody
Roger Sidney Goody (born 17 April 1944, in Northampton) is an English chemist who served as director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund from 1993 until 2013. Since 2013 he is Emeritus Director of the institute.
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(born 1944), English biochemist
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Goody Cole
Eunice Cole (c. 1590, England – October 1680, Hampton, New Hampshire, United States), maiden name unknown, was a woman from the coast of New Hampshire. Better known as "Goody Cole", she is the only woman convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshi ...
or Eunice Cole, only woman convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire
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Goody Osborne
Sarah Osborne (also variously spelled Osbourne, Osburne, or Osborn; née Warren, formerly Prince, (c. 1643 – May 29, 1692) was a colonist in the Massachusetts Bay colony and one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem w ...
or Sarah Osborne, woman accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692 biochemist
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Goody Petronelli, (1923–2012), American boxing trainer and co-manager
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Goody Rosen, (1912–1994), Canadian Major League Baseball All Star outfielder
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