# 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 (1933–2022), 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
* Jason Segal (born 1980), American actor
* Jeffrey Segal (1920–2015), British actor
* Jérôme Segal (born 1970), French-Austrian essayist, historian, and journalist
* Joel Segal, American sports agent
* 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 (1928–2024), 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
* Steven Seagal (born 1952), 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, (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