Roy Matz Goodman (March 5, 1930 – June 3, 2014) was an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the New York State Senate from 1969 to 2002. He was the Republican nominee in the 1977 New York City mayoral election, receiving 4.08% of the vote.

Goodman was born in New York City on March 5, 1930. He was the grandson of Israel Matz, the founder of the Ex-Lax company. As a child, he attended Camp Androscoggin. Goodman received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1951 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1953.

Prior to serving in the Senate, Goodman was the New York City Director of Finance under Mayor John Lindsay in 1966 and 1967. He served as chairman of the New York County Republican Committee from 1981 to 2001. He ran for the New York State Assembly in 1964, but lost the Republican nomination to Bill Green.

In 1968, Goodman was elected to the New York State Senate for District 26 on Manhattan's East Side (later District 28). He would serve for 34 years, in the 178th through 194th New York legislatures, until his retirement in 2002.

He served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Investigations, Taxation and Government Operations. He was considered a leader of the liberal Rockefeller wing of the New York State Republican Party. Goodman's supporters would sometimes refer to him as "The Statesman of the State Senate."

In 1977, Goodman ran for Mayor of New York City. He defeated Barry Farber, a talk radio host in the Republican primary. In the general election, Goodman finished third behind Democratic Congressman Edward I. Koch and New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo, a Democrat who ran on the Liberal Party ticket.

Goodman was nearly defeated in 2000 by Liz Krueger. At first, Krueger was leading Goodman by several hundred votes. After a recount and the counting of the absentee ballots, Goodman was declared the winner in late December. In 2020, the New York Times reported that months after the election, in 2001, election workers discovered "hundreds of ballots" from a Krueger-leaning area in an air conditioning duct.

Goodman resigned from the State Senate in early 2002. As of 2025, he remains the last Republican elected to office in Manhattan.