Segal
Segal, and its variants including Sagal, Segel, Sigal or Siegel, is a family name which is primarily Ashkenazi Jewish.
The name is said to be derived from Hebrew segan leviyyah although a minority of sources claim that "Segal" is instead a Hebrew abbreviation for segan le-kehunah.
People
Notable people with the surname include:- Abe Segal, South African tennis player
- Alan F. Segal, American Professor of Jewish Studies
- Allan Segal, British documentary filmmaker
- Alvin Segal, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist
- Amit Segal, Israeli journalist
- Anna Segal, Australian Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion
- Anthony Segal, British physician/scientist
- Brandon Segal, Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles Segal, American historian and classicist
- D. Segal, pen name of Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Dan Segal, British mathematician
- David HaLevi Segal, 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, American author, screenwriter, and educator
- Ester H. Segal, Israeli nanotechnologist and educator
- Francesca Segal, British author and journalist
- Gabriel Segal (philosopher), British professor, philosopher and author
- George Segal (artist), American sculptor and painter
- George Segal, American actor
- German Segal, Russian actor
- Gloria Segal, American politician
- Graeme Segal, Australian mathematician
- Hugh Segal, Canadian Senator and co-chair of the Conservative Party of Canada campaign in the 2006 Federal Election
- Irving Segal, American mathematician
- Jack Segal, American composer
- Jakob Segal, biology professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Jason Segal, American actor
- Jeffrey Segal, British actor
- Jérôme Segal, French-Austrian essayist, historian, and journalist
- Joel Segal, American sports agent
- Jonathan Segal (actor),, American television actor
- Judah Segal, British professor of Semitics
- Kate Segal, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 62nd district
- Katey Sagal, American actress and singer-songwriter
- Lore Segal, Austrian-American novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist
- Marilyn Segal, American psychologist
- Mike Segal, American politician
- Michael Segal, Israeli scholar of computer science
- Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli rabbi
- Nachum Segal, Jewish American DJ
- Nancy L. Segal, American evolutionary psychologist and behavioral geneticist
- Ned Segal, American business executive
- Peter Sagal, American radio host
- Peter Segal, American film director
- Philip Segal, English-born television producer
- Richard D. Segal, American businessman and art collector
- Ronald Segal, South African writer and activist
- Samuel Segal, British doctor and politician
- Sandra Segal Ikuta, United States circuit judge
- Sara Segal, later Sophia Karp, the first professional Yiddish theatre actress
- Sharmin Segal, Indian actress in Hindi films
- Steve Segal, American animator
- Steven Seagal, American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician
- Stephen H. Segal, American science fiction writer and editor
- Sydney Segal, American female contestant on reality show Survivor 41#
- Tobias Segal, American actor
- Yehiel Segal,, Israeli painter
- Yuval Segal, Israeli actor and comedian
- Walter Segal, German-born Romanian architect working in England, who developed a system of self-build housing
- Zindel Segal, Ukrainian-Canadian cognitive psychologist, one of the founders of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy