title: Seeger
text: # Seeger
  
  Seeger is the surname of various people.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  Seeger is one of the variant forms of Seagar, a surname of Middle English origin based on the given name Segar, which was formed from Old English sæ ("sea") and gar ("spear").
  
  ## Seeger family of musicians
  
  * Charles Louis Seeger, Sr. (1860–1943), American businessman
     * Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (1886–1979), American musicologist, composer, and teacher
  
      (i) Constance Edson Seeger, violinist; first wife of Charles; three children
        * Charles Seeger III, (1912–2002) astronomer
  
        * John Seeger, (1914–2010), high school principal and co-founder of Camp Killooleet, a summer camp in Vermont
  
        * Pete Seeger (1919–2014), one of the preeminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century
  
            Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), filmmaker and environmental activist, wife of Pete Seeger; 4 children
              * Peter Seeger (1944–1945), died while Pete was deployed overseas
  
              * Daniel Seeger
  
              * Mika Seeger American ceramic artist; daughter of Pete and Toshi Seeger
  
                 * Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; son of Mika
  
              * Tinya Seeger
  
      (ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; second wife of Charles; 4 children
        * Mike Seeger (1933–2009), American folk musician and folklorist
  
           * Chris Arley Seeger (born 1961), technologist, broadcast engineer, mixer-editor; married to Laura Vaccaro Seeger, a children's book author-illustrator
  
        * Peggy Seeger (born 1935), American folk singer and songwriter; wife of Scottish folk singer Ewan MacColl and stepmother of singer Kirsty MacColl
  
           * Neil MacColl, guitarist for David Gray
  
              * Jamie MacColl, guitarist in Bombay Bicycle Club and Neil MacColl's son
  
        * Barbara Seeger, appeared on Animal Folk Songs for Children (1992) with Mike Seeger and others
  
        * Penny Seeger, married John Cohen
     * Alan Seeger (1888–1916), American poet; brother of Charles
     * Elizabeth Seeger (1889–1973), teacher at Dalton School and author; sister of Charles and Alan
  
  ## Others
  
  * Al Seeger (b. 1980), American boxer
  * Andreas Seeger, German mathematician
  * Britta Seeger (b. 1969), German business executive
  * Charles M. Seeger (b. 1948), American author and attorney
  * Christopher A. Seeger (b. 1960), American attorney
  * Daniel Seeger (b. 1934), defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists
  * Frank Seeger (b. 1972), German sports shooter
  * Fritz Seeger (b. 1912), Swiss sprinter
  * Hal Seeger (1917–2005), American animated cartoon producer and director
  * Harald Seeger (1922–2015), German footballer and manager
  * Helmut Seeger (b. 1932), German sports shooter
  * Hermann Seeger (1857–1945), German painter
  * Louis Seeger (1798–1865), German equestrian
  * Matthew Seeger (b. 1957), American professor and university dean
  * Melanie Seeger (b. 1977), German race walker
  * Petra Seeger, German documentary film director and producer
  * Raymond Seeger (1906–1992), American physicist
  * Ruth Taubert Seeger (1924–2014), American athlete and coach
  * Stanley J. Seeger (1930–2011), American art collector
  * Stefan Seeger (born 1962), German chemist and professor
  * Steven C. Seeger (b. 1971), American judge
  
  ## Legal cases
  
  "Seeger" may also reference either of two legal cases involving the individuals below:
  
  * United States v. Seeger, regarding Daniel Seeger's conscription
  * Seeger v. United States, regarding Pete Seeger's refusal to testify in front of the HUAC
  
  ## Schools
  
  * Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School in West Lebanon, Indiana
  * Elizabeth Seeger School in Greenwich Village, established in 1971 by five teachers from Dalton School
  