# Schwarz (surname)

Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German schwarz, pronounced , 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
* Armin Schwarz (born 1963), German rally driver
* Armin Schwarz (born 1968), 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