Schwarz (surname)

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

• Adolf Schwarz (1836-1910), Austria-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
• Berthold Schwarz, Franciscan monk
• 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
• Ernst Schwarz (1889–1962), German zoologist who named the bonobo
• 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
• Harry Schwarz (1924-2010), South African lawyer, politician, diplomat and anti-apartheid leader
• Hermann Schwarz (philosopher) (1864-1951), German philosopher
• Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843–1921), German mathematician
• Jacques Schwarz (1856-1921), Austrian chess player
• 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
• 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