Lemuel Goodell (November 27, 1800 – April 9, 1897) was a farmer and politician in Michigan and Wisconsin who also worked as a teacher, restaurateur and law enforcement officer.

He went to work for a general store in Alexandria Bay, New York, and in 1828 moved to Detroit, Michigan.

In Detroit he operated a restaurant for a couple of years with his brother, selling that out to go to work for a hotel.

He was elected to Wisconsin's 1st State Senate district (Brown, Calumet, Manitowoc, and Sheboygan counties)) for the 2nd Wisconsin Legislature meeting in 1849-1850, replacing fellow Democrat Harrison C. Hobart (his Assembly seat was taken by Whig Alonzo D. Dick).

It was reported that his first wife was killed in 1841 by hostile Indians in Detroit "on the common where Capitol square is now" (presumably Capital Park) and her brother taken into captivity (and held for two years) in the same attack,[1] although in fact by 1841 the state capitol had been in that location for three or four years.