Segal

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Segal, and its variants including Siegel or Segel, is a family name which is primarily Ashkenazi Jewish.

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

People[]

Notable people with the surname include:

  • 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
  • Anthony Segal (born 1944), British physician/scientist
  • 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 (1934–2021), 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
  • Katey Sagal (born 1953), American actress and singer-songwriter
  • 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
  • Sydney Segal, American female contestant on reality show Survivor 41#
  • Tobias Segal, American actor
  • Yuval Segal (born 1971), Israeli actor and comedian
  • Walter Segal (1907–1985), German-born Romanian architect working in England, who developed a system of self-build housing
  • Zindel Segal (born 1956), Ukrainian-Canadian cognitive psychologist, one of the founders of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Mathematical concepts[]

Other uses[]

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

See also[]

  • Chagall (disambiguation)
  • Siegel
  • Segel
  • Sigel (disambiguation)

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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