Seeger
Surname list
Seeger is an English surname.
01Etymology
Seeger is one of the variant forms of Seagar, a surname of Middle English origin based on the given name Segar, which was formed from Old English sæ ("sea") and gar ("spear").
02Seeger family of musicians
- Charles Louis Seeger, Sr. (1860-1943), American businessman
- Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (1886-1979), American musicologist, composer, and teacher
- Pete Seeger (1919-2014), one of the preeminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century
- Toshi Seeger (1922-2013), filmmaker and environmental activist
- Mika Seeger American ceramic artist
- Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician
- Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist
- Mike Seeger (1933-2009), American folk musician and folklorist
- Peggy Seeger (born 1935), American folk singer and songwriter; wife of Scottish folk singer Ewan MacColl and stepmother of singer Kirsty MacColl
- Alan Seeger (1888-1916), American poet
- Elizabeth Seeger (1889-1973), teacher at Dalton School and author
03Others
- Al Seeger (b. 1980), American boxer
- Alois Seeger (1868-1931), mayor of Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Andreas Seeger, German mathematician
- Britta Seeger (b. 1969), German business executive
- Charles M. Seeger (b. 1948), American author and attorney
- Daniel Seeger (b. 1934), defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists
- Frank Seeger (b. 1972), German sports shooter
- Fritz Seeger (b. 1912), Swiss sprinter
- Hal Seeger (1917-2005), American animated cartoon producer and director
- Harald Seeger (1922-2015), German footballer and manager
- Helmut Seeger (b. 1932), German sports shooter
- Hermann Seeger (1857-1945), German painter
- Louis Seeger (1798-1865), German equestrian
- Matthew Seeger (b. 1957), American professor and university dean
- Melanie Seeger (b. 1977), German race walker
- Petra Seeger, German documentary film director and producer
- Raymond Seeger (1906-1992), American physicist
- Ruth Taubert Seeger (1924-2014), American athlete and coach
- Stanley J. Seeger (1930-2011), American art collector
- Stefan Seeger (born 1962), German chemist and professor
- Steven C. Seeger (b. 1971), American judge
04Legal case
"Seeger" may also reference a legal case, United States v. Seeger, regarding Daniel Seeger's conscription.
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