Seward (surname)

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Seward is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin.

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

Katie Seward, voted Worlds best Accountant by CIMA (2014)

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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