Michael Goodfellow MBE (8 January 1941 – 8 March 2024) was a British professor in microbial systematics, specialising in Actinomycetota taxonomy.

He took a postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State, then as an MRC Junior Research Fellow at the University of Leicester.

The MRC has and remains focussed on the development and application of state-of-the-art procedures designed to advance the systematics, ecology and commercialisation of actinobacteria.

[4] Owing to his contribution to microbial systematics, a bacterial genus of Actinomycetota was named after him as Goodfellowia.

[8] For his service in education he was named Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours list.