Schwarz (surname)
Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German schwarz,, meaning the color black. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adolf Schwarz, Austria-Hungarian chess master
- Alan Schwarz, American writer
- Albert Schwarz, Russian-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist
- Annette Schwarz, German pornographic actress
- Benjamin Schwarz , American writer
- Berthold Schwarz, Franciscan friar
- Bill Schwarz, British academic and writer
- Brinsley Schwarz, English guitarist
- Christian Friedrich Schwarz, German Protestant missionary
- Daniel R. Schwarz, professor of English literature
- Danny Schwarz , English model
- David Schwarz , Australian Rules footballer
- David Schwarz, Hungarian–Croatian aviation pioneer
- Elisabeth Schwarz, Austrian operatic soprano
- Ernst Schwarz , German zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist
- Ernst Schwarz , Communist politician
- Ernst Schwarz , Austrian sinologist and translator
- Eugene Amandus Schwarz, German-American entomologist
- François Xavier de Schwarz, Badener who became a French general
- Franz Xaver Schwarz, Nazi treasurer
- Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German immigrant founder of F.A.O. Schwarz
- Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
- Gotthold Schwarz, German bass-baritone and conductor
- Hans Schwarz, German Lutheran theologian
- Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician, diplomat and anti-apartheid leader
- Heinrich Schwarz, German SS Nazi concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
- Henning Schwarz, German politician
- Herbert Ferlando Schwarz, American entomologist and son of F.A.O. Schwarz
- Hermann Schwarz , German philosopher
- Hermann Amandus Schwarz, German mathematician
- Jacques Schwarz, Austrian chess player
- Jaecki Schwarz, German actor
- Jessica Schwarz, German film and TV actress
- John H. Schwarz, American theoretical physicist and one of the founders of string theory
- Joe Schwarz, U. S. congressman from Michigan
- Johann Georg Schwarz, Russian Freemason
- Josef Schwarz, Czech-born German long jumper
- Karen Schwarz, Peruvian beauty pageant titleholder and Miss Perú, she represented Peru in Miss Universe 2009.
- Karl Schwarz, German Protestant theologian
- Lavoslav Schwarz, Croatian merchant and a historically significant figure of the Jewish community in Zagreb
- Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician, pioneer of the theory of distributions
- Leo Schwarz, German Roman Catholic titular bishop
- Michael Schwarz, multiple people
- Mommie Schwarz, Dutch painter
- Paul Schwarz, German orientalist
- Reggie Schwarz, Anglo-South African cricketer and rugby union player
- Robert Schwarz Strauss, American government officer
- Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz, Mexican architect
- Rudolf Schwarz , Austrian conductor
- Stefan Schwarz, Swedish midfielder
- Udo Schwarz, German rugby union international
- Christian Schwarz-Schilling, German politician
