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Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (b. October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996) is an American comics writer best known for having created Superman with Joe Shuster as well as several other notable comics characters.

Siegel is the youngest of six children born in Cleveland, Ohio to Lithuanian immigrant Mitchell Siegel. He lost his father while still in junior high, when Mitchell was shot and killed in his store by a thief. Growing up, Siegel was a fan of science fiction magazines, comic strips and movies. In 1929, he published the fanzine Cosmic Stories and over the next few years, several other booklets.

He attended Glenville High School where he joined the school's newspaper, The Torch. In school he met Joe Shuster. The two worked together on comics with Siegel providing the story and Shuster, the artwork. They developed the character Superman as a villain but later made him a superhero. Their initial attempt to use the character into a comic strip was a failure. Several years later, in 1939, when both men were working for DC-National Comics, DC decided to publish Superman in the first issue of Action Comics.

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