Schumacher or Schuhmacher is an
occupational surname
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German
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shoemaker
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.
Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as '' cordwainers''). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen ...
", pronounced , both variants can be used as surnames, with Schumacher being the more popular one, however, only the variant with three "h"s can also be used as a
job description
A job description or JD is a written narrative that describes the general tasks, or other related duties, and responsibilities of a position. It may specify the functionary to whom the position reports, specifications such as the qualifications ...
in modern German spelling). The variant
Schumaker
Schumaker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*John G. Schumaker (1826–1905), United States Representative from New York
* Robert P. Schumaker, American academic and inventor of AZFinText
* Skip Schumaker (born 1980), basebal ...
is also commonly seen in the USA. Still another variant is
Shumacher.
Notable people with the surname include:
Science
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Benjamin Schumacher
Benjamin "Ben" Schumacher is an American theoretical physicist, working mostly in the field of quantum information theory.
He discovered a way of interpreting quantum states as information. He came up with a way of compressing the information in ...
, American theoretical physicist, married to Carol
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Carol Schumacher
Carol Smith Schumacher (born 1960) is a Bolivian-born American mathematician specializing in real analysis, a mathematics educator, and a textbook author. She is a professor of mathematics at Kenyon College, and vice president of the Mathematic ...
, Bolivian-American mathematician, married to Benjamin
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E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977), British economist
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Eugen Schuhmacher (1906–1973), German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries
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Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Prof Heinrich Christian Schumacher FRS(For) FRSE (3 September 1780 – 28 December 1850) was a German- Danish astronomer and mathematician.
Biography
Schumacher was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, near the German/Danish border. He was educ ...
(1780–1850), German astronomer
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Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (15 November 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – 9 December 1830) was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in ...
, (1757–1830), German-Danish surgeon, botanist, malacologist and anatomist
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William S. Massey (1920–2017), American mathematician
Sports
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Anton Schumacher
Anton "Toni" Schumacher (born 1 December 1938 in Bonn) is a German former professional football goalkeeper.
Career
Schumacher played for 1. FC Köln since 1950, from 1963 to 1968 the team played in the Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), some ...
(born 1938), German football goalkeeper
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Cori Schumacher
Cori Schumacher is an American world champion surfer, activist and former politician.
Early life
Schumacher was born April 23, 1977, in Huntington Beach, California. Both her parents were avid surfers. The family moved to San Diego where Schuma ...
(born 1977), American international surfer, politician and three times WSL Women’s World Longboard Champion
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David Schumacher (wrestler), (born 1931), Australian wrestler
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David Schumacher (racing driver)
David Schumacher (born 23 October 2001) is a German racing driver, son of former Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher, nephew of seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher, and cousin of former Formula One driver Mick Schumacher. He is ...
, (born 2001) German racing driver, son of
Ralf Schumacher
Ralf Schumacher (born 30 June 1975) is a German former racing driver. He is the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, and the pair are the only siblings to each win Formula One races.
Schumacher began kart ...
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Flávio Sérgio Viana
Flávio Sérgio Viana known as Schumacher (born in São Paulo, 31 August 1975) is a Brazilian futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side f ...
(born 1975), Brazilian futsal defender known as Schumacher
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Günther Schumacher
Günther Schumacher (born 27 June 1949) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer born in East Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1984. He twice represented West Germany at the Summer Olympics (1972 and 1976), and won ...
(born 1949), German track and road cyclist and two times Olympics Men's Team Pursuit winner
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Harald Schumacher
Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher (born 6 March 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represent ...
(born 1954), German football goalkeeper, West Germany team captain and one time UEFA Euro champion
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Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (1925–2014), Dutch freestyle swimmer
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John Schuhmacher (born 1955), American football player
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Katie Schumacher-Cawley
Katie Anne Schumacher-Cawley (born March 10, 1980) is an American former volleyball and basketball player and is the head coach of the Penn State women's volleyball team. After serving as the associate head coach since 2018, she was named head c ...
(born 1980), American volleyball/basketball player and coach
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Kelly Schumacher
Kelly Schumacher (born October 14, 1977) is an American-born Canadian professional basketball player and professional volleyball player. She had been playing in the WNBA for the Detroit Shock, until her release 18 June 2009.
After her junior sea ...
(born 1977), Canadian WNBA basketball player and two times WNBA champion
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Kurt Schumacher (American football) (born 1952), NFL player
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Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis ...
(born 1969), German Formula One driver and seven times Formula One World Champion
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Schumacher (film) documentary from 2021 about the above
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Mick Schumacher
Mick Schumacher (; born 22 March 1999) is a German racing driver who is the current reserve driver for the Mercedes AMG Formula One Team.
Schumacher began his career in karting in 2008, progressing to the German ADAC Formula 4 by 2015. Afte ...
(born 1999), German Formula One driver, son of seven times World Champion Michael Schumacher
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Ralf Schumacher
Ralf Schumacher (born 30 June 1975) is a German former racing driver. He is the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, and the pair are the only siblings to each win Formula One races.
Schumacher began kart ...
(born 1975), German DTM driver, former Formula One driver, younger brother of Michael Schumacher
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Raymond R. Schumacher (1924–1973), American football player
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Sandra Schumacher
Sandra Schumacher (born 25 December 1966) is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer, who represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los ...
(born 1966), German track and road cyclist
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Stefan Schumacher
Stefan Schumacher (born 21 July 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist. Schumacher won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships, two stages in the 2006 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2 ...
(born 1981), German road racing cyclist
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Steven Schumacher (born 1984), English football midfielder and manager
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Tony Schumacher (drag racer)
Tony Schumacher (born December 25, 1969), is an American drag racer who is an eight-time NHRA Champion. He is the son of NHRA legend Don Schumacher, but despite their similar name the family is not related to the Formula 1 driver Michael Schu ...
(born 1969), American dragster racer and eight times NHRA Top Fuel champion
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Don Schumacher
Don, don or DON and variants may refer to:
Places
*County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON
* Don (river), a river in European Russia
* Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
* Don, Benin, a town in Benin
* Don, Dang, a ...
(born 1944), American dragster racer, NHRA team owner who led the team to win eighteen NHRA championships in three different NHRA categories, and father of Tony Schumacher
Other
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Albert Schumacher
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Albert C ...
(1802–1871), German/American businessman in Baltimore, official Consul General of
Bremen and
Hamburg
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Hamburgian(s)
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Baltimore
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, honorary citizen of Bremen
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Cora Schumacher (born 1976), German actress, model, racing driver and presenter
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David Schumacher (producer), (born 1969), American film and television producer/presenter.
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Elisabeth Schumacher (1904–1942), artist and German executed Resistance fighter
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Emil Schumacher
Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen – 4 October 1999 in San José, Ibiza) was a German painter. He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany.
In 2009 the Kunstquartier Hagen was inaug ...
(1912–1999), German artist, co-founder of abstract art movement in Germany and representative of the "Informel" movement
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Ferdinand Schumacher (1822–1908), American entrepreneur known as "the Oatmeal King"
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Fritz Schumacher (architect)
Fritz Schumacher (4 November 1869 – 5 November 1947) was a German architect and urban designer.
Biography
Schumacher was born into a diplomatic family in Bremen in 1869. The family Schumacher has been living there since 15th century.
He spe ...
, (1869–1947), German architect and urban designer
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Gottlieb Schumacher (1857–1925), American civil engineer, architect and archaeologist
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Ida Schumacher (1894–1956), Bavarian theatre actress and comedian
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Jean-Pierre Schumacher
Jean-Pierre Schumacher (15 February 1924 – 21 November 2021) was a French Trappist monk.
Biography
Schumacher was born on 15 February 1924 in Buding, Moselle. He was born and raised in a Catholic family of six children. At the age of eight ...
(1924–2021), French Trappist monk
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Joel Schumacher
Joel T. Schumacher (; August 29, 1939June 22, 2020) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Raised in New York City by his mother, Schumacher graduated from Parsons School of Design and originally became a fashion designer. H ...
(1939–2020), American film director, writer and producer
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John Schumacher (Los Angeles pioneer) (about 1816–1885)
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John J. Schumacher, founded Southwestern University School of Law
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Kurt Schumacher
Curt Ernst Carl Schumacher, better known as Kurt Schumacher (13 October 1895 – 20 August 1952), was a German politician who became chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and the first Leader of the Opposition in the Wes ...
(1895–1952), German social-democratic political leader
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Kurt Schumacher (sculptor) (1905–1942), German sculptor and executed Resistance fighter
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Martina Schumacher (born 1972), German painter and conceptual artist
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Peder Griffenfeld (born Schumacher, 1635–1699), Danish statesman
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Thomas Schumacher
Thomas Schumacher (born December 5, 1957) is a theatrical producer, currently president of Disney Theatrical Group, the theatrical production arm of The Walt Disney Company.
Life and career
Schumacher studied theatre at UCLA. In 1987 he was ass ...
, American theatrical producer
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Troy Schumacher
Troy Schumacher is an American choreographer, dancer, and director based in New York City. He is a soloist in the New York City Ballet and has choreographed for the company since 2014; before being promoted to soloist, he danced in NYCB's corps d ...
, New York City ballet dancer
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Wim Schumacher
Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It ...
(1894–1986), Dutch painter and designer
See also
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David Schumacher (disambiguation)
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John Schumacher (disambiguation)
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Kurt Schumacher (disambiguation)
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Tony Schumacher (disambiguation) Tony Schumacher may refer to:
* Tony Schumacher (drag racer) (born 1969), American drag racer
* Tony Schumacher (kayaker) (born 1976), Australian sprint canoeist
* Tony Schumacher (German author) (1848–1931), German children books author
* Ton ...
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Shoemaker (surname) Shoemaker is an occupational surname.
People with the name
* Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978), American actress
* Benjamin Shoemaker (1704–c. 1767), mayor of Philadelphia during the 18th century
* Bill Shoemaker (1931–2003), American jockey
* Carol ...
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Schumaker
Schumaker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*John G. Schumaker (1826–1905), United States Representative from New York
* Robert P. Schumaker, American academic and inventor of AZFinText
* Skip Schumaker (born 1980), basebal ...
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