Schwarz (surname)

Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German schwarzcode: deu promoted to code: de , pronounced [ˈʃvaʁts], meaning black. It may refer to:

People

• Alan Schwarz (born 1968), American writer
• Annette Schwarz, German pornographic actress
• Berthold Schwarz, Franciscan monk
• Brinsley Schwarz (musician), English guitarist
• Christian Friedrich Schwarz, German Protestant missionary
• David Schwarz (Australian Rules footballer)
• Ernst Schwarz (1889–1962), German zoologist who named the bonobo
• Franz Xaver Schwarz, Nazi treasurer
• Frederick August Otto Schwarz (1836–1911), German immigrant founder of F.A.O. Schwarz
• Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
• Harry Schwarz South African anti-apartheid politician and diplomat
• Hermann Schwarz (philosopher), German philosopher
• Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921), German mathematician
• John H. Schwarz
• Joe Schwarz (born 1937)
• Josef Schwarz (born 1941), Czech-born German long jumper
• Karl Schwarz (1812–1885)
• Paul Schwarz, orientalist
• Robert Schwarz Strauss, American government officer
• Rudolf Schwarz (conductor), Austrian conductor
• Stefan Schwarz, Swedish midfielder
• Solomon Schwarz, Russian socialist, Menshevik
• Christian Schwarz-Schilling

Mathematics

• Schwarz lemma, a mathematical result about holomorphic functions
  • Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem, an extension of the Schwarz lemma for hyperbolic manifolds
• Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, a concept in inner product space mathematics
• Schwarz's theorem, about the symmetry of second derivatives

Other uses

• F.A.O. Schwarz, a toy store
• Schwarz Publishing, an Australian publishing house
• Schwarz Stein, a Japanese music band
• Green-Schwarz mechanism, an interaction in string theory
• Schwarz, Germany, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
• Schwarzbier, German dark lager
• Schwarz, an album by Böhse Onkelz; see Weiß & Schwarz
• Schwarz, an album by Conrad Schnitzler; also called Eruption

See also

• Schwartz
• Schwarzhorn (mountain)