Siegel

Siegel (also Segal or Segel), is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. it can be traced to 11th century Bavaria and was used by people who made wax seals for or sealed official documents (each such male being described as a Siegelbeamter). Alternate spellings include Sigel, Sigl, Siegl, and others. "Siegel" is also the modern German word for seal. The name ultimately derives from the Latin sigillum, meaning "seal" as in the "Seal of the City of New York": "Sigillum Civitatis Novi Eboraci." The Germanicized derivative of the name was given to professional seal makers and engravers. Some researchers have attributed the surname to Sigel, referring to Sól (Sun), the goddess of the sun in Germanic mythology (Siȝel or sigel in Old English / Anglo-Saxon), but that is highly speculative.

Variants, and false cognates[]

Other variants may routinely include Siegelman, Siegle, Sigl, and Sigel (and presumably some bearers of these names are lineal descendants of ethnic Jews who changed the spellings of their surnames in the course of assimilating among other cultures: "Segal" and "Segel" are false cognates to Siegel, usually having derived from a quite different root.) Most sources indicate that it derives from the Hebrew acronym סגל^[which?] the abbreviated form of either Sagan Gadol ha-Leviya, which means "great assistant to the Levites", or Sagan Gadol L'-Cohen which means "great assistant to the Cohanim" (special group of Levites who tended to more holy tasks within the Jewish Temple), and was an honorific title bestowed upon a member of the tribe of Levi who performed temple duties faithfully. (Some Rabbis aver that Segal/Segall derives from the Hebrew s'gula, meaning "treasure." However, this would not explain the association of the name only with the tribe of Levi.) Further, the double-L in Segall seems^{[to whom?]} to be a specifically Rumanian (language) spelling variant.

Siegel[]

Adam Siegel (born 1969), American guitarist
Bernard Siegel (1868–1940), Austro-Hungarian born American character actor
Bernard Siegel, American attorney
Bernie S. Siegel (born 1932), American writer and retired pediatric surgeon
Bugsy Siegel (1906–1947), American mobster
Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896–1981), German mathematician
Corky Siegel (born 1943), American harmonica player in the Siegel–Schwall Band
David Siegel (disambiguation), several people
Denise Siegel, American visual artist
Don Siegel, American film and television director and producer
Dora Siegel (1912-2003), birth name of Dora Gad, Israeli interior designer
Eli Siegel (1902–1978), Latvian-American poet and critic who founded philosophy of aesthetic realism
James Siegel (born 1954), American thriller novelist
Jeremy Siegel (born 1945), American Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, author and commentator
Jerry Siegel (1914–1996), American, one of the creators of Superman
Joel Siegel (1943–2007), American film critic and television journalist
Karola Siegel, birthname of Ruth Westheimer (born 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
Kate Siegel (born 1982), American actress and screenwriter
Larry Siegel (1925-2019), American comedy writer
Mark Siegel (born 1967), American graphic novel author and publisher
Max Siegel, American corporate CEO
Ralph Siegel (born 1945), German record producer and songwriter
Ralph Siegel (scientist) (1958–2011), American neuroscientist
Rick Siegel, American comedian, talent agent and inventor
Robert Siegel, American radio journalist, host of NPR's All Things Considered
Shepard Siegel, Canadian psychologist
Sol C. Siegel (1903–1982), American reporter and film producer
Stephen Siegel (born 1944), American real estate executive, chairman of CB Richard Ellis
Steven Siegel (born 1953), American sculptor
Warren Siegel, American physicist
Wayne Siegel (born 1953), American composer living in Århus, Denmark
William Siegel (1905–1990), American graphic artist

Siegal[]

Ian Siegal, British blues singer and guitarist
Justine Siegal, American baseball coach and sports educator

Sigl[]

Georg Sigl (1811–1887), Austrian mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
Robert Sigl (born 1962), German filmmaker
Rudi Sigl (born 1937), German sport shooter
Wolfgang Sigl (born 1972), Austrian rower

Mathematical concepts[]

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