Seward (surname)

Seward is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin.^[1]

Notables of this name include

• Adam Seward (born 1982), National Football League player
• Albert Charles Seward (1863–1941), British botanist and geologist, winner of the 1934 Darwin Medal
• Alec Seward (1902–1972), American blues musician
• Anna Seward (1747–1809), English writer of the 19th century
• 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 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
• Harold H. Seward (1930-2012), developer in 1954 of the Radix sort computer algorithm
• Jack Seward (1924–2010), American writer, linguist and Order of the Sacred Treasure recipient
• 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.
• Vern Seward, American technology writer
• 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

Fictional

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

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