{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox surname | name = Seeger | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = | feminine = | masculine = | language = | languageorigin = Middle English | origin = | derivation = | meaning = | variant = Seagar | cognate = | anglicisation = | derivative = | seealso = | family = }} '''Seeger''' is an English surname.

==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").<ref>Hanks, Patrick & Hodges, Flavia (1988) ''The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames''. Oxford University Press; p. 556</ref>

==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<!-- of Tiverton, R.I. --><ref name="PS survivors">Bart Barnes, "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/pete-seeger-legendary-folk-singer-dies-at-94/2014/01/28/36faeec0-c5dc-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94]", ''The Washington Post'', January 28, 2014</ref> 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 * 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

==Legal case== "Seeger" may also reference a legal case, ''United States v. Seeger'', regarding Daniel Seeger's conscription.{{cn|date=June 2025}}

== See also == * Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School, West Lebanon, Indiana * Seeger ring, alternative name for a circlip * Seger * Segger (surname)

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