Goodfellow

For the U.S. base, see Goodfellow Air Force Base. For other uses, see Goodfellas (disambiguation).

Goodfellow is a surname with English, Scottish or Irish origins. Notable people with the surname include:

• Benjamin Goodfellow (1864–1946), British solicitor and philatelist
• Bill Goodfellow, Canadian Minister of Highways in the Ontario Department of Highways, 1961–1962
• Brent H. Goodfellow (born 1940), American politician
• Charles Augustus Goodfellow (1836–1915), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Daniel Goodfellow (born 1996), British diver
• Douglas Goodfellow (1917–2014), New Zealand businessman and philanthropist
• Ebbie Goodfellow (1906–1985), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Elizabeth Goodfellow (c.1767–1851), American cooking instructor
• Fred Goodfellow (father of Herbert Goodfellow) (c. 1879–1925), rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s through to the 1920s
• Frederick Goodfellow (1874–1960), British tug of war competitor
• Geoff Goodfellow (born 1956 California), American inventor of the wireless communicator that became the Blackberry
• George Goodfellow (cricketer) (1858–1892), Australian cricketer
• George E. Goodfellow (1855-1910), American physician and expert on gunshot wounds
• Gerald Goodfellow, U.S. Air Force brigadier general
• Herbert Goodfellow (son of Fred Goodfellow) (1916-1997), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s
• Ian Goodfellow, American computer scientist, engineer, and researcher
• James Goodfellow (born 1937), Scottish inventor
• Jimmy Goodfellow (born 1943), former English professional footballer and manager
• Jimmy Goodfellow (footballer, born 1938) (1938–2011), Scottish footballer
• Joan Goodfellow (born 1950), American actress
• Dame Julia Goodfellow (born 1951), British biophysicist and academic administrator
• Kate Goodfellow (born 1989), Canadian rower
• Marc Goodfellow (born 1981), English professional football player
• Michael Goodfellow (born 1941), English actinobacterial systematician
• Michael Goodfellow (curler) (born 1988), Scottish curler
• Mike Goodfellow (1866–1920), American baseball player
• Peter Goodfellow (geneticist) (born 1951), British geneticist
• Peter Goodfellow (politician), New Zealand businessman and politician
• Ryan Goodfellow (born 1993), Scottish footballer
• Rob Goodfellow (born 1960), Canadian-Australian author, biographer, consultant editor, freelance opinion columnist, cross-cultural specialist, historian, Indonesianist, and social commentator.
• Syd Goodfellow (1915 – 1998), English footballer
• Walter Goodfellow (1866-1953), British zoological collector
• William Goodfellow (executive) (born 1947), American, founding member and Executive director of the Center for International Policy
• William Goodfellow (philanthropist) (1880–1974), New Zealand philanthropist

Fictional characters

• Puck (Shakespeare), whose proper name is Robin Goodfellow
• Dr Goodfellow, a fictional character on the television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Sgt Goodfellow, a fictional character on the television series Father Brown
• Gordon Goodfellow, character in The Ickabog
• Robyn Goodfellowe and her father Bill Goodfellowe, characters in the animated film Wolfwalkers