Segal
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
- Isaak Sigal (born 1927), Ukrainian scientist
Sagal
- Boris Sagal (1923–1981), American film director
- Jean Sagal (born 1961), American actress
- Katey Sagal (born 1954), American actress
- Liz Sagal (born 1961), American actress
- Peter Sagal (born 1965), American actor
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
- 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
- Roman Segal (born 1970), Health Insurance Agent
- 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
- Steven Seagal (born 1951), American action movie actor
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.
- Ty Segall (born 1987), Garage rock musician
Segel
- Harold Segel (1930–2016), American academic
- Jason Segel (born 1980), American actor
- Jonathan Segel (born 1963), American violinist and guitarist
- Joseph Segel (1931–2019), founder of QVC television station
- Lee Segel (1932–2005), applied mathematician
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
- Marc Chagall, (1887–1985), Russian-Jewish Painter
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.
References
- 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 ..."
- 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).
- 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."
- 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)."
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