Serge Godard (born 25 March 1936) is a French politician.

[1] Born in Gerzat, Puy-de-Dôme, he studied in Clermont-Ferrand, Sedan, Lille then Paris and in 1966, he received the diploma of physics doctorate.

Between 1971 and 1976, he was the headmaster of "observatoire de physique" in Clermont-Ferrand and become a professor in Blaise Pascal University until 1996.

[2] When Godard was eight, his mother Simone was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

[3] From 4 July 1997 to 22 April 2014, he was the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand,[4] succeeding Roger Quilliot and preceding Olivier Bianchi.