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. Czech female form is Schwarzová. 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
• Andreas Schwarz (born 1965), German politician
• Benjamin Schwarz (writer) (born 1963), American writer
• Berthold Schwarz, Franciscan friar
• Bill Schwarz (born 1951), British academic and writer
• Brinsley Schwarz (musician), English guitarist
• Christian Friedrich Schwarz (1726–1798), German Protestant missionary
• Christine Schwarz-Fuchs (born 1974), Austrian entrepreneur and politician
• Christopher Schwarz (born 1968), American woodworker
• Daniel Schwarz (bandleader) (1851–1885), German trumpeter, and band leader
• Daniel R. Schwarz (born 1941), American professor of English literature
• Danny Schwarz (model) (born 1987), English model
• David Schwarz (aviation inventor) (1852–1897), Hungarian–Croatian aviation pioneer
• David Schwarz (footballer) (born 1972), Australian Rules footballer
• Ernst Schwarz (politician) (1886–1958), German-American Communist politician
• Ernst Schwarz (sinologist) (1916–2003), Austrian sinologist and translator
• Ernst Schwarz (zoologist) (1889–1962), German zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist
• 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
• Friederike Schwarz (1910–1945), Czech composer, educator and journalist
• Gerard Schwarz (born 1947), American conductor
• Gotthold Schwarz (born 1952), German bass-baritone and conductor
• Hans Schwarz (disambiguation), several people
• 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
• Heinz Schwarz (1928–2023), German politic (CDU), member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, also the state's minister of the interior
• 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
• Joe Schwarz (born 1937), U.S. congressman from Michigan
• John H. Schwarz (born 1941), American theoretical physicist and one of the founders of string theory
• Johann Georg Schwarz (1751–1784), Russian academic and Freemason
• Josef Schwarz (born 1941), Czech-born German long jumper
• Karen Schwarz (born 1984), Peruvian beauty pageant titleholder and Miss Perú, represented Peru in Miss Universe 2009
• Karl Schwarz (1812–1885), German Protestant theologian
• Laurent Schwarz (born 2021-2022?), German child artist
• Lavoslav Schwarz (1837–1906), Croatian merchant and a historically significant figure of the Jewish community in Zagreb
• Leo Schwarz (1931–2018), German Roman Catholic titular bishop
• Ludwig Schwarz (born 1940), Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Linz, Austria
• Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz (1898–1969), Dutch phytopathologist who discovered the causal agent of Dutch elm disease
• Michael Schwarz (disambiguation), several people
• Mommie Schwarz (1876–1942), Dutch painter
• Otto Schwarz (1876–1981), German flautist, clarinettist, piccolo player, travelling musician and band leader
• Paul Schwarz (1867–1939), German orientalist
• Peter Schwarz (born 1953), German footballer
• Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz (1822–1894), German astronomer and explorer
• Petr Schwarz, Czech football player
• Reggie Schwarz (1875–1918), Anglo-South African cricketer and rugby union player
• Robert Schwarz Strauss (1918–2014), American government officer
• Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz (1931–2017), Mexican architect
• Rudolf Schwarz (conductor) (1905–1994), Austrian conductor
• Silke Schwarz, German wheelchair fencer
• Stefan Schwarz (born 1969), Swedish midfielder
• Stefan Schwarz (politician) (born 1959), German lobbyist and politician
• Udo Schwarz (born 1986), German rugby union international
• Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 1930), German politician
• Stefan Schwarz (born 1959), German politician