Seymour (given name)

Seymour is a given name which may refer to:

People

• Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst (1864–1943), British soldier and newspaper owner
• Seymour Benzer (1921–2007), American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist
• Seymour Cassel (1935-2019), American actor
• Seymour Cocks (1882–1953), British Labour Party Member of Parliament
• Seymour Cray (1925–1996), American supercomputer architect and founder of Cray Research
• Seymour Chwast (born 1931), American graphic designer, illustrator and type designer
• Seymour Ginsburg (1927–2004), American computer scientist
• Seymour Greenberg (1920–2006), American tennis player
• Seymour Halpern (1913–1997), US Representative from New York
• Seymour Hersh (born 1937), Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author
• Seymour Hicks (1871–1949), British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, theatre manager and producer
• Seymour King (1852–1933), English banker, mountaineer and Conservative politician
• Seymour H. Knox I (1861–1915), American entrepreneur and businessman
• Seymour H. Knox II (1898–1990), American philanthropist and art enthusiast
• Seymour H. Knox III (1926–1996), American philanthropist and owner of the National Hockey League Buffalo Sabres team
• Seymour P. Lachman (born 1933), New York politician and historian
• Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006), American political sociologist
• Seymour Melman (1917–2004), American professor, economist, writer and gadfly of the military-industrial complex
• Seymour Nebenzal (1899–1961), German film producer
• Seymour Nurse (1933-2019), Barbadian former cricketer
• Seymour Papert (1928-2016), South Africa-born American mathematician, computer scientist and educator
• Seymour Schulich (born 1940), Canadian businessman, investor, author and philanthropist
• Seymour Siegel (1927–1988), American Conservative rabbi, professor and adviser to three US presidents
• Seymour Stedman (1871–1948), American civil liberties lawyer and a leader of the Socialist Party of America
• Seymour R. Thaler (1919–1976), New York state senator
• Seymour Topping (1921-2020), American journalist and writer

Fictional characters

• Seymour d'Campus, University of Southern Mississippi mascot
• Seymour Glass, in the Glass Family series by J. D. Salinger
• Seymour Guado, in Final Fantasy X
• Seymour Krelborn, the main character in The Little Shop of Horrors
• Seymour Skinner, school principal in The Simpsons
• Seymour Utterthwaite, in Last of the Summer Wine , played by Michael Aldridge
• Seymour, lead character in the Seymour series of early 2D platform games by Codemasters
• Seymour (Futurama), Fry's dog in Futurama
• Seymour, the green fuzzy lead puppet in the 1970s children's television series Hot Fudge
• Seymour (Burn Notice), an eccentric arms dealer in the television series Burn Notice
• Seymour, a Muppet elephant who appeared on Muppets Tonight
• Seymour, in a series of 1990s video games by Codemasters, including Seymour Goes to Hollywood .
• Seymour, portrayed by Larry Vincent, a television horror host
• Seymour, a leopard head in Rick Riordan's Camp Half-Blood Chronicles , made alive by Dionysus

See also

• Seymour (disambiguation)
• Seymour (surname)
• Seymore