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Segal

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Segal, and its variants including Segel and some families with Siegel, is a primarily Jewish family name.

Etymology

The name Segal has been said to be derived either from Hebrew segan leviyyah (assistant to the Levites)[1][2][3] although a minority of sources claim that "Segal" is an abbreviation for segan le-kehunah (assistant to the priest) instead.[4]

People

Notable people with the surname include the following:

Sigal

Sagal

Segal

  • Abe Segal (1930–2016), South African tennis player
  • Alan F. Segal (1945–2011), American Professor of Jewish Studies
  • Allan Segal (1941–2012), British documentary filmmaker
  • Alvin Segal (born 1933), American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist
  • Anna Segal (born 1986), Australian Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion
  • Brandon Segal (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Charles Segal (1936-2002), American historian and classicist
  • Dan Segal (born 1947), British mathematician
  • David HaLevi Segal (1586–1667), Polish rabbi and Halakhist
  • David Segal (politician), Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and candidate for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district
  • Erich Segal (1937–2010), American author, screenwriter, and educator
  • Ester H. Segal, Israeli nanotechnologist and educator
  • Francesca Segal (born 1980), British author and journalist
  • Gabriel Segal (born 1959), British professor, philosopher and author
  • George Segal (artist) (1924–2000), American sculptor and painter
  • George Segal (born 1934), American actor
  • Gloria Segal (1928–1993), American politician
  • Graeme Segal (born 1941), Australian mathematician
  • Hugh Segal (born 1950), Canadian Senator and co-chair of the Conservative Party of Canada campaign in the 2006 Federal Election
  • Irving Segal (1918–1998), American mathematician
  • Jack Segal (1918–2005), American composer
  • Jakob Segal (1911–1995), biology professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Jeffrey Segal (1920–2015), British actor
  • Joel Segal, American liberal activist
  • Judah Segal (1912–2003), British professor of Semitics
  • Kate Segal (born 1975), Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 62nd district
  • Lore Segal (born 1928), Austrian-American novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist
  • Marilyn Segal, American psychologist
  • Michael Segal (born 1972), Israeli scholar of computer science
  • Moshe Zvi Segal (1875–1968), Israeli rabbi
  • Nachum Segal, Jewish American DJ
  • Nancy L. Segal (born 1951), American evolutionary psychologist and behavioral geneticist
  • Peter Segal (born 1962), American film director
  • Philip Segal (born 1958), English-born television producer
  • Richard D. Segal, American businessman and art collector
  • Ronald Segal (1932–2008), South African writer and activist
  • Samuel Segal (1902–1985), British doctor and politician
  • Sara Segal, later Sophia Karp (1861–1904), the first professional Yiddish theater actress
  • Stephen H. Segal, American science fiction writer and editor
  • Tobias Segal, American actor
  • Yuval Segal (born 1971), Israeli actor and comedian
  • Walter Segal (1907–1985), architect who developed a system of self-build housing
  • Zindel Segal (born 1956), cognitive psychologist, one of the founders of the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Seagal

Segall

  • Beatriz Segall (1926–2018), Brazilian actress
  • Bernardo Segall (1911–1993), American film and TV composer
  • Harry Segall (1897–1975), American playwright and screenwriter
  • Lasar Segall (1891–1957), Brazilian painter of Lithuanian Jewish origin
  • Laurie Segall (born 1985), American journalist
  • Pamela Segall (born 1966), American voice actor for many American children's shows
  • Stu Segall, former porn producer, founder of Stu Segall Productions
  • Thea Segall (1929-2009), Romanian photographer
  • Ty Segall (born 1987), Garage rock musician

Segel

Siegel

  • Adam Siegel (born 1969), American guitarist
  • Bugsy Siegel (1906–1947), Jewish-American gangster
  • Corky Siegel (born 1943), harmonica player in the Siegel–Schwall Band
  • David A. Siegel (born 1935), American entrepreneur
  • David Siegel (screenwriter), American screenwriter
  • David Siegel (musician), American producer, musician and songwriter
  • Don Siegel (1912–1991), American film director and producer.
  • Eli Siegel (1902–1978), poet and critic who founded philosophy of aesthetic realism
  • James Siegel (born 1954), thriller novelist
  • Jeremy Siegel (born 1945), professor and financial analyst
  • Jerry Siegel (1914–1996), American co-creator of Superman
  • Joel Siegel (1943-2007), American film critic ad television journalist
  • Mark Siegel (illustrator) (born 1967), American illustrator
  • Robert Siegel (born 1947), American NPR radio journalist
  • Wayne Siegel (born 1953), American composer living in Århus, Denmark

Chagall

Sagalchik

Sagalovich

Mathematical concepts

  • Brauer–Siegel theorem
  • Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction
  • Siegel modular form
  • Segal space
  • Newell–Whitehead–Segel equation

Other

  • Segal–Cover score, attempt to measure relative liberalism or conservatism of U.S. Supreme Court Justices.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion ed. Adele Berlin - 2011-p3 "Various family names are derived from abbreviations; for example, Katz (kohen tsedeq [righteous priest]) and Segal (segan leviyyah [Levitical aide]). Abbreviations or acronyms were commonly employed in Talmudic literature as an exegetical ..."
  2. ^ Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History ed. Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy - 1999 p190 "Siegel / Segal / Segall / Chagall, etc.: segan levayya, leader of the Levites (sagan is a loanword from Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian and Akkadian, originally denoting a dignity).
  3. ^ Ladies' Home Journal Vol.90 page liii ed. Newell Convers Wyeth - 1973 "Thus descendents of Ben Rabbi Judah Lowe became Brill; Segan Leviyyah became the surname Segal or Segel."
  4. ^ Precious possessions: treasures from the Library of the Sharon Liberman Mintz, Elka Deitsch, Havva Charm - 2001 p38 "... pouring water from a pitcher into a laver. This illustration is a visual reference to the Levitical ancestry of the family of the bridegroom whose surname (Segal) is a standard Hebrew abbreviation for segan le-kehunah (assistant to the priest)."

External links

  • "Segal Association", www.segal.org, website of the Segal association
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