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 (assistant to the Levites)  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).

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
 * D. Segal, pen name of Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * 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 (philosopher) (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 (1950–2023), 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
 * Jonathan Segal (actor), (1953–1999), American television actor
 * 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
 * Mike Segal, (1922-1982) American politician
 * 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
 * Ned Segal (born c. 1974), American business executive
 * Peter Sagal (born 1965), American radio host
 * 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
 * Sandra Segal Ikuta, United States circuit judge
 * Sara Segal, later Sophia Karp (1861–1904), the first professional Yiddish theatre actress
 * Sharmin Segal (born 1995), Indian actress in Hindi films
 * Steve Segal, American animator
 * 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, (1924 –1996), Israeli painter
 * 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