title: Seward (surname)
text: # Seward (surname)
  
  Seward is a surname of Old English origin.
  
  ## 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 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) (born 1951), 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
  