Sigmund, also spelled Siegmund, is a
Germanic given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
with roots in proto-Germanic
''*segaz'' and
''*mundō'', giving a rough translation of "protection through victory".
People with this name
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Sigmund Ahnfelt
Major General Sigmund Ahnfelt (28 November 1915 – 14 November 1993) was a Swedish Army officer. Ahnfelt was commissioned as an officer in 1938 and served in the Finnish Army during World War II. He attended the United States Army Command and G ...
, Swedish major general
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Sigmund Borgundvåg
Sigmund Borgundvåg (born 16 February 1939, in Selje) is a Norwegian naval architect of offshore vessels including platform supply ships and deep-sea tugs.
Biography
He worked as a naval architect for Ulstein Group (beginning in 1964) and then ...
, Norwegian naval architect
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Sigmund Brouwer
Sigmund Brouwer (born 1959) is a prolific Canadian author of children's, young adult, and adult books. He has over 100 titles and four million books in print.
Brouwer's novel, ''Dead Man's Switch'', won the Arthur Ellis Award in 2015 for Canada ...
, Canadian author
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Sigmund Fraenkel, Polish-Austrian chemist
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...
, Austrian-Jewish psychologist
* Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter
* Sigmund Hecht (1849–1925), Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi
* Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson, African-American singer in the Jackson 5
* Sigmund Jähn, an East German cosmonaut
* Siegmund Klein (1902–1987), American bodybuilder
* Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng, Norwegian philosopher and activist
* Sigmund Mifsud, Maltese musician
* Sigmund Moren, Norwegian philologist
* Sigmund Mowinckel, Norwegian professor and theologian
* Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor
* Sigmund Romberg, a Hungarian composer
* Sigmund Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper
* Sigmund Skard, Norwegian poet
* Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-British businessman and philanthropist
* Sigmund Sommer, American builder
* Sigmund von Erlach, Swiss military commander
* Sigmund von Haimhausen, Bavarian aristocrat
* Sigmund Widmer (1919-2003), Swiss politician
* Sigmund Zois, Carniolan nobleman
Mythological and fictional characters
* Sigmund (also Siegmund), a hero in Norse mythology
* Siegmund, a focal character in Richard Wagner's ''Die Walküre''
* Sigmund (comics), Doctor Sigmund, a Dutch comics character
* Siegmund, a fictional lance wielded by Ephraim in video game ''Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones''
* Sigmund the Sorcerer, a fictional character from the kids' TV show ''Fanboy & Chum Chum''
* Sigmund, the titular sea monster of the kids' TV show from the 1970s, ''Sigmund and the Sea Monsters''
See also
*Sig (given name)
*Sigmund (disambiguation), other meanings
*Sigismund
*Zygmunt, a list of people with the given name or surname Zygmunt, Zigmunt or Zigmund
References
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