Seward is a surname of

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* Adam Seward (born 1982), National Football League player *

Albert Seward Sir Albert Charles Seward FRS (9 October 1863 – 11 April 1941) was a British botanist and geologist. Life Seward was born in Lancaster. His first education was at Lancaster Grammar School and he then went on to St John's College, Cambrid ...

(1863–1941), British botanist and geologist, winner of the 1934 Darwin Medal *

Alec Seward Alec Seward (born Alexander T. Seward, March 16, 1901 – May 11, 1972) was an American Piedmont blues and country blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Some of his records were released under pseudonyms, such as Guitar Slim, Blues Servant ...

(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 Edward William Seward (June 29, 1867 – July 30, 1947), born as ''Edward William Sourhardt'', was an American Major League Baseball pitcher for six seasons from 1885 to 1891. Seward made his professional baseball debut in 1884 at age 16 with Terr ...

(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 Frederick William Seward (July 8, 1830 – April 25, 1915) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who twice served as the Assistant Secretary of State. The son of United States Secretary of State William H. 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 Georgene Hoffman Seward (January 21, 1902 – September 19, 1992), an early feminist psychologist, was best known for her research on sex roles and sex behavior. Having experienced much sex discrimination in academia herself, she dedicated her lif ...

(1902–1992), American feminist psychologist *

Harold H. Seward Harold H. Seward (July 24, 1930 – June 19, 2012) was a computer scientist, engineer, and inventor. Seward developed the radix sort and counting sort algorithms in 1954 at MIT. He also worked on the Whirlwind Computer and developed instruments ...

(1930–2012), developer 1954 of the Radix sort computer algorithm *

Henry Hake Seward Henry Hake Seward (c.1778 - 19 January 1848) was an English architect who practised in the early 19th century. Seward was a pupil of Sir John Soane from May 1794 to September 1808. He was house architect (and later, c. 1823, Surveyor) to the Gr ...

(1778-1848), English architect *

Jack Seward John Neil Seward Jr. (October 11, 1924 – November 10, 2010) was a World War II veteran who was assigned to military intelligence in 1941 because of his knowledge of Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an is ...

(1924–2010), American writer, linguist, and

Order of the Sacred Treasure The is a Japanese order, established on 4 January 1888 by Emperor Meiji as the Order of Meiji. Originally awarded in eight classes (from 8th to 1st, in ascending order of importance), since 2003 it has been awarded in six classes, the lowest ...

recipient * James Seward (cricketer) (born 1997), English cricketer *

James L. Seward (New York politician) James L. Seward (born August 11, 1951) was a Republican New York State Senate, New York State Senator from 1987 to 2020. Seward was first elected to represent the New York's 50th State Senate district, 50th District in 1986. In his final term he ...

(born 1951), U.S. Senator *

James Lindsay Seward James Lindsay Seward (October 30, 1813 – November 21, 1886) was an American politician and lawyer. Born in Dublin, Georgia in 1813, Seward moved with his family to Thomas County, Georgia, in 1826. He studied law, gained admission to the stat ...

(1813–1886), American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia 1853–1859 *

Jonathan Lewis Seward Avenged Sevenfold (abbreviated as A7X) is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist M. Shadows, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Zacky Vengeance, ...

(born 1984), bassist of American rock band Avenged Sevenfold *

Julian Seward Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, ...

, 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) Thomas Seward (died c. 1406), of Shaftesbury, Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament and merchant. Seward was married with one daughter. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislatu ...

(died 1406), English MP and merchant * Walter H. Seward (1896–2008), American supercentenarian *

William H. Seward William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senate, United States Senat ...

r.(1801–1872), Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln *

William H. Seward Jr. William Henry Seward Jr. (June 18, 1839 – April 29, 1920) was an American banker and brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the youngest son of William Henry Seward Sr., the United States Secretary of State un ...

(1839–1920), son of William H. Seward Sr., a brigadier general for the Union during the Civil War *

William Seward (disambiguation) William H. Seward (1801–1872) was an American politician. William Seward may also refer to: * William Seward (anecdotist) (1747–1799), English anecdotist * William H. Seward Jr. William Henry Seward Jr. (June 18, 1839 – April 29, 1920) was ...

, various people with the name ;Fictional * John Seward, a character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ''Dracula''

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