Seymour (given name)

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Seymour is a given name which may refer to:

People[edit]

  • 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

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