Schwarz (surname)

Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German schwarz,, 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, 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
 * Elisabeth Schwarz (born 1984), Austrian operatic soprano
 * 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
 * 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