Stephen Frederick Gooden CBE, RA, RE (born Tulse Hill, London, 9 October 1892, died Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire 21 September 1955) was an English artist, engraver, illustrator and designer of banknotes.

[2] He was created a Commander of the British Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours.

[4] He was associated with the Nonesuch Press in its early years for which he provided decorations and title pages, and he illustrated fine editions of the King James Bible (1924) and the odes of Anacreon (1923).

[4] Gooden's design of St George and the dragon on the bookplate for the Royal Library at Windsor Castle was used as the basis for the design of the reverse of the George Medal, for which he was awarded the CBE.

In 1925 he married the Irish poet Mona Steele Price (1894–1958) for whom he illustrated an anthology of poems that she selected about cats.