Martin E. Segal, Russian-American businessman, co-founded Film Society of Lincoln Center (b. 1916)
Martin Eli Segal (July 4, 1916 – August 5, 2012) was a Russian Empire-born American businessman who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 with two other Lincoln Center executives, William F. May and Schuyler G. Chapin. He also served as the Film Society's founding president and CEO until 1978. Segal was founding chair of the Commission for Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Assistance Center, and the New York International Festival of the Arts.

Segal was born in Vitebsk, , Russian Empire (now located in present-day Belarus), in 1916 and immigrated to the United States. He is a former Associated Press columnist and founder of human resource and benefits consulting firm, The Segal Group, which he founded in October 1939. Segal served as the General Chairman of the Night of 100 Stars II on February 17, 1985, the first AIDS benefit held by the Actors' Fund of America.The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), located at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, was renamed for Segal in March 1999. It was founded as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA) in 1979. He died at his Manhattan home in 2012. He was 96.The Martin E. Segal Awards were established by Lincoln Center’s Board when Mr. Segal retired as Chairman in 1986. Marking the commitment of the late Mr. Segal to support rising artists, Lincoln Center’s 11 resident organizations nominate an artist annually for the distinguished prize, which gives financial assistance and recognition to young artists of exceptional accomplishment. Martin E. Segal Award recipients include:

Melissa Aldana

Tyler Angle

Paul Appleby

Jeff Balsmeyer

Inon Barnatan

Joan Barnhill

Alessio Bax

Alan Berliner

Sheldon Best

Jonathan Biss

Borromeo String Quartet

Brentano Quartet

Jason Robert Brown

Julia Bullock

Cast of Serafina

Anna Christy

Eric Cutler

The Daedalus String Quartet

Michelle DeYoung

Aaron Diehl

Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara

Nelsan Ellis

Escher String Quartet

Silas Farley

Ying Fang

Daire Fitzgerald

Shalita Grant

David Gresham

Andrea Gruber

Augustin Hadelich

Stefon Harris

Helen Huang

Michelle Hurst

JACK Quartet

Thomas Kail

Richard Kelley

Quinn Kelsey

Alec Knight

Claire Kretzschmar

Michael John LaChiusa

Kate Lindsey

Jon Magnussen

Miriam Mahdaviani

Nancy Maultsby

Reveka E. Mavrovitis

Jim McKay

Roberto Minczuk

Karen Notare

Matías Piñeiro

Laura Poitras

Jason Ritter

Valerian Ruminski

Mauricio Salgado

Jennie Somogyi

Scott St. John

Abi Stafford

Jonathan Stafford

Michael Stuhlbarg

Anita Thacher

Camille Thurman

Daniel Ulbricht

Erica vonKleist

Kenny Washington

Alisa Weilerstein

George Wellington

Christopher Wheeldon

Shai Wosner

Xian Zhang