Seeger

Seeger is the surname of various people.

Seeger

Origin
Language(s)	Middle English
Other names
Variant form(s)	Seagar

Etymology

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").^[1]

Seeger 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^[2] 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

Others

• Al Seeger (b. 1980), American boxer
• Andreas Seeger, German mathematician
• Britta Seeger (b. 1969), German business executive
• Charles M. Seeger (b. 1948), American author and attorney
• Christopher A. Seeger (b. 1960), American 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

Legal cases

"Seeger" may also reference either of two legal cases involving the individuals below:

• United States v. Seeger, regarding Daniel Seeger's conscription

Schools

• Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School in West Lebanon, Indiana
• Elizabeth Seeger School in Greenwich Village, established in 1971 by five teachers from Dalton School

See also

• Seger
• Seager
• Segger (surname)

Object names

• Seeger ring, alternative name for a circlip
• The closest modern named object that corresponds to a seaspear is a harpoon.