Seward (surname)

Seward is a surname of Old English origin. ^[1]

Notables of this name include

• Adam Seward (born 1982), National Football League player
• Albert Seward (1863–1941), British botanist and geologist, winner of the 1934 Darwin Medal
• Alec Seward (1901–1972), American blues musician
• Anna Seward (1742–1809), English writer of the 18th century
• Bill Seward (1958–2022), American broadcaster, actor, and coach
• Billie Seward (1912-1982), American actress
• Diane Seward, New Zealand thermochronologist
• Ed Seward (1867–1947), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Frances Adeline Seward (1805–1865), wife of William H. Seward Sr., a First Lady of New York State
• Frederick D. Seward (born 1931), American astronomer
• Frederick W. Seward (1830–1915), son of William H. Seward Sr., two-time Assistant Secretary of State
• Gary Seward (born 1961), English professional footballer
• George Seward (1840–1910), U.S. diplomat, envoy to China 1876–1880
• Georgene Hoffman Seward (1902–1992), American feminist psychologist
• Harold H. Seward (1930–2012), developer 1954 of the Radix sort computer algorithm
• Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848), English architect
• Jack Seward (1924–2010), American writer, linguist, and Order of the Sacred Treasure recipient
• James Seward (cricketer) (born 1997), English cricketer
• James L. Seward (New York politician) (1951–2024), U.S. Senator
• James Lindsay Seward (1813–1886), American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia 1853–1859
• Jonathan Lewis Seward (born 1984), bassist of American rock band Avenged Sevenfold
• Julian Seward, developer of bzip2, an open-source data compression program
• Olive Risley Seward (1844–1908), adopted daughter of William H. Seward Sr
• Thomas Seward (1708-1790), English clergyman and author
• Thomas Seward (MP) (died 1406), English MP and merchant
• Walter H. Seward (1896–2008), American supercentenarian
• William H. Seward [Sr.] (1801–1872), Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln
• William H. Seward Jr. (1839–1920), son of William H. Seward Sr., a brigadier general for the Union during the Civil War
• William Seward (disambiguation), various people with the name

Fictional

• John Seward, a character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula

See also

• Siward (disambiguation)

References

1. "Surname Database: Seward Last Name Origin".