Schwarz (surname)

This article is about the German surname. For other uses, see Schwarz (disambiguation).

Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German schwarz, pronounced [ˈʃvaʁts] , meaning the color black. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adolf Schwarz (1836–1910), Austrian-Hungarian chess master
• Alan Schwarz (born 1968), American writer
• Albert Schwarz (born 1934), Russian-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist
• Annette Schwarz (born 1984), German pornographic actress
• Benjamin Schwarz (writer) (born 1963), American writer
• Berthold Schwarz, Franciscan friar
• Bill Schwarz, British academic and writer
• Brinsley Schwarz (musician), English guitarist
• Christian Friedrich Schwarz (1726–1798), German Protestant missionary
• Daniel R. Schwarz (born 1941), professor of English literature
• Danny Schwarz (model) (born 1987), English model
• David Schwarz (footballer) (born 1972), Australian Rules footballer
• David Schwarz (1852–1897), Hungarian–Croatian aviation pioneer
• Elisabeth Schwarz (born 1984), Austrian operatic soprano
• Ernst Schwarz (zoologist) (1889–1962), German zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist
• Ernst Schwarz (politician) (1886–1958), Communist politician
• Ernst Schwarz (sinologist) (1916–2003), Austrian sinologist and translator
• Eugene Amandus Schwarz (1844–1928), German-American entomologist
• François Xavier de Schwarz (1762–1826), Badener who became a French general
• Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875–1947), Nazi treasurer
• Frederick August Otto Schwarz (1836–1911), German immigrant founder of F.A.O. Schwarz
• Gerard Schwarz (born 1947), American conductor
• Gotthold Schwarz (born 1952), German bass-baritone and conductor
• Hans Schwarz (born 1939), German Lutheran theologian
• Harry Schwarz (1924–2010), South African lawyer, politician, diplomat and anti-apartheid leader
• Heinrich Schwarz (1906–1947), German SS Nazi concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
• Henning Schwarz (1928–1993), German politician
• Herbert Ferlando Schwarz (1883-1960), American entomologist and son of F.A.O. Schwarz
• Hermann Schwarz (philosopher) (1864–1951), German philosopher
• Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921), German mathematician
• Jacques Schwarz (1856–1921), Austrian chess player
• Jaecki Schwarz (born 1946), German actor
• Jessica Schwarz (born 1977), German film and TV actress
• John H. Schwarz (born 1941), American theoretical physicist and one of the founders of string theory
• Joe Schwarz (born 1937), U. S. congressman from Michigan
• Johann Georg Schwarz (1751–87), Russian Freemason
• Josef Schwarz (born 1941), Czech-born German long jumper
• Karen Schwarz (born 1984), Peruvian beauty pageant titleholder and Miss Perú, she represented Peru in Miss Universe 2009.
• Karl Schwarz (1812–1885), German Protestant theologian
• Lavoslav Schwarz (1837–1906), Croatian merchant and a historically significant figure of the Jewish community in Zagreb
• Laurent Schwartz (1915–2012), French mathematician, pioneer of the theory of distributions
• Leo Schwarz (1931–2018), German Roman Catholic titular bishop
• Michael Schwarz (disambiguation), multiple people
• Mommie Schwarz (1876–1942), Dutch painter
• Paul Schwarz (1867–1939), German orientalist
• Reggie Schwarz (1875–1918), Anglo-South African cricketer and rugby union player
• Robert Schwarz Strauss (1918–2014), American government officer
• Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz, (born 1931) Mexican architect
• Rudolf Schwarz (conductor) (1905–1994), Austrian conductor
• Stefan Schwarz (born 1969), Swedish midfielder
• Udo Schwarz (born 1986), German rugby union international
• Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 1930), German politician