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) origin, meaning "black" (modern spelling in German is ). It was originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion.http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=schwartz It may refer to: * A. R. Schwartz (Aaron Robert Schwartz, 1926-2018), Texas politician * Abe Schwartz (1881–1963), musician * Al Schwartz (disambiguation), multiple people *

Alba Schwartz Sofie Albertine (Alba) Schwartz née Larsen (1857–1942) was a Danish writer who contributed to the social life of Skagen in the north of Jutland after her husband was appointed mayor in 1899. Her earlier writings documented the history of the to ...

(1857–1942), Danish writer * Allyson Schwartz, former US Representative from Pennsylvania * Andrea Schwartz (born 1977), Canadian swimmer *

Anna Schwartz Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced ; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for ''The New York Times''. Paul Krugman has said that Schwar ...

(1915–2012), American economist * Annetta Schwartz, Romanian musician * Anton Schwartz (born 1967), American jazz musician *

Arthur Schwartz Arthur Schwartz (November 25, 1900 – September 3, 1984) was an American composer and film producer, widely noted for his songwriting collaborations with Howard Dietz. Biography Early life Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on Nov ...

(1900–1984) *

Barbara Schwartz (artist) Barbara Schwartz (1949 – May 8, 2006 in New York City) was an American abstract artist, painter, sculptor and art teacher.

(1949–2006), American artist *

Barry Schwartz (psychologist) Barry Schwartz (born August 15, 1946) is an American psychologist. Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College and since 2016 has been visiting professor at the University of California, Be ...

(born 1946), American psychologist * Bernard Schwartz (1925–2010), birth name of American actor Tony Curtis * Ben Schwartz (born 1981), American actor * Bernard L. Schwartz (born 1925) * Berthold Schwartz, monk * Bill Schwartz (disambiguation), several people *

Buky Schwartz Buky Schwartz (pronounced BOO-kie) ( he, בוקי שוורץ; June 16, 1932 – September 1, 2009, Tel Aviv) was an Israeli sculptor and video artist. Biography Moshe (Buky) Schwartz was born in Jerusalem. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture ...

(1932–2009), Israeli sculptor * Catherine Schwartz (born 1977), American television personality *

Chandra Lee Schwartz Chandra Lee Schwartz (born August 18, 1981) is an American theatre performer, who played Glinda on the First National Tour of ''Wicked'' from Friday, 21 August 2009, through Sunday, 17 April 2011. She originally starred alongside Donna Vivino as E ...

(born 1981), American theatre performer * David Schwartz (disambiguation) *

Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Early life Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when ...

(1913–1966), American poet and short-story writer * Ed Schwartz (1946–2009), Chicago media personality *

Eddie Schwartz Edward Sydney Schwartz C.M. (born December 22, 1949) is a Canadian musician who had moderate success as a recording artist in the early 1980s before becoming a successful songwriter and record producer in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Songs he ...

(born 1949), Canadian songwriter and record producer *

Eduard Schwartz Eduard Schwartz (22 August 1858 – 13 February 1940) was a German classical philologist. Born in Kiel, he studied under Hermann Sauppe in Göttingen, under Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler in Bonn, under Theodor Mommsen in Berlin and under Ul ...

(1858–1940), German classical philologist *

Eduardo Schwartz Eduardo Saul Schwartz (born 1940) is a professor of finance at SFU's Beedie School of Business, where he holds the Ryan Beedie Chair in Finance. He is also a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is know ...

(born 1940), finance academic *

Elliott Schwartz Elliott Shelling Schwartz (January 19, 1936 – December 7, 2016) was an American composer. A graduate of Columbia University, he was Beckwith Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College joining the faculty in 1964. In 2006, the Library of ...

(1936–2016), American composer *

Evgeny Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц; , Kazan, Russian Empire – January 15, 1958, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplay ...

(1896-1958), Soviet writer * Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American NFL football player *

Gerry Schwartz Gerald W. Schwartz, OC (born 1941) is the founder, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation. Schwartz has a net worth of US$1.5 billion, according to Forbes. Early life and career Schwartz was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from Kelvin H ...

(born 1940), Canadian businessman *György Schwartz, aka

George Soros George Soros ( name written in eastern order), (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. , he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated mo ...

(born 1930), billionaire * George X. Schwartz (1915–2010), American politician *

Glenn Schwartz Glenn W. Schwartz (March 20, 1940 – November 2, 2018) was an American guitarist who first came to the attention of rock music audiences as the original guitar player of the James Gang, based in Cleveland, Ohio. Career Schwartz left the Jame ...

(1940–2018), American musician, member of the band Pacific Gas & Electric *

Gustav Schwartz Gustav Schwartz (his last name also spelled Schwarz), full name Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwarz von Mohrenstern (May 5, 1809 – June 15, 1890) was an Austrian paleontologist and malacologist. He was born in Himberg, the son of Johann Jakov Schwart ...

(1809–1890), Austrian paleontologist * Hanit Schwartz (born 1987), Israeli women's soccer goalkeeper * Herbert Schwartz, American college sports coach * Hillel Schwartz (1923–2007), Egyptian politician *

Hillel Schwartz (historian) Hillel Schwartz (born 1948) is an American cultural historian, poet and translator. Education and teaching Hillel Schwartz was born in Chicago and got his B.A. degree at Brandeis University in 1969. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in European History ...

(born 1948), American cultural historian *

Howard Schwartz (writer and editor) Howard Schwartz (born April 21, 1945, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a widely regarded folklorist, author, poet, and editor of dozens of books. He has won the international Koret Jewish Book Award, for the book ''Before You Were Born'', and won a 2 ...

, American folklorist * Isaïe Schwartz (1876–1952), former great rabbi of France * Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz alias "The Ghetto Midget" (1900–1988), American world champion flyweight boxer * Jack Schwartz (1930–2009), American mathematician & computer scientist *

Jim Schwartz James J. Schwartz (born June 2, 1966) is an American football coach who is a Senior Defensive Assistant for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He was head coach of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) ...

(born 1966), former NFL head coach, Current Defensive Coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles *

Jean Schwartz Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 – November 30, 1956) was a Hungarian-born American songwriter. Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old. He took various music-related jobs including dem ...

(1878–1956), songwriter * Jeffrey H. Schwartz (born 1948), American physical anthropologist * Jeffrey M. Schwartz, American neuroscientist * Jerome T. Schwartz (born 1951), American politician * John Schwartz (disambiguation), several people * Jonathan Schwartz (disambiguation), several people named Jon or Jonathan *

Josh Schwartz Joshua Ian Schwartz (born August 6, 1976) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Schwartz is best known for creating and executive producing the Fox teen drama series '' The O.C.'' which ran for 4 seasons. Schwartz is also known fo ...

(born 1976), American writer & producer *

Julius Schwartz Julius "Julie" Schwartz (; June 19, 1915 – February 8, 2004) was a comic book editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He is best known as a longtime editor at DC Comics, where at various ...

(1915–2004), editor & agent *

Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in ...

(1915–2002), French mathematician * Lillian Schwartz (born 1927), American artist * Louis B. Schwartz (1913-2003), American law professor at the

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...

* Margaretta Schwartz, Yiddish singer * Marie Sophie Schwartz (1819–1894), Swedish novelist *

Melvin Schwartz Melvin Schwartz (; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration ...

(1932–2006), American physicist *

Mike Schwartz Mike Schwartz is an American screenwriter and actor, best known for his work on '' Scrubs'' (2001-2009). Life and career Schwartz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Santa Barbara, California. A graduate of the improv group ...

(born 1949), American-Israeli basketball player and coach * Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995), American academic and author, subject of the book ''Tuesdays with Morrie'' * Morris Schwartz (1901–2004), American photographer * Morry Schwartz (born 1948), Australian property developer and publisher * Murray Schwartz (Queens politician) (1919–2001), New York politician *

Murray Merle Schwartz Murray Merle Schwartz (March 23, 1931 – January 11, 2013) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Education and career Born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Schwartz received a Bachelor o ...

(1931–2013), US federal judge from Delaware * Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force * Pedro Schwartz, Spanish economist * Pepper Schwartz (born 1945), American sociologist and sexologist * Peter Schwartz (disambiguation), multiple people * Randal L. Schwartz (born 1961), computer scientist * Richard Schwartz (disambiguation) *

Scott Schwartz Scott Schwartz (born May 12, 1968) is an American actor best known for his roles as a child actor in '' The Toy'', ''A Christmas Story'' and ''Kidco''. Life and career Schwartz co-starred opposite Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason in 1982's ' ...

(born 1968), American child actor * Scott L. Schwartz, American actor best known for "The Bruiser" in the ''Ocean's Eleven'' film series * Seymour I. Schwartz (1928-2020), American physician *

Sherwood Schwartz Sherwood Charles Schwartz (; November 14, 1916 – July 12, 2011) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television series '' Gilligan's Isla ...

(1916–2011), American television writer, producer * Shuki Schwartz (born 1954), Israeli basketball player * Simon Schwartz (born 1982), German illustrator and cartoonist * Stephen Schwartz (composer) (born 1948), American composer and lyricist * Stephen Schwartz (journalist) (born 1948), journalist * Stephen E. Schwartz (born 1941), atmospheric scientist * Tony Schwartz (disambiguation), multiple people *

William C. Schwartz William C. Schwartz (March 25, 1927 – July 23, 2000) was a civic leader in Central Florida and a pioneer in the laser industry. He was founder, President and Chairman of International Laser Systems, Inc., and later, Schwartz Electro-Optics, Inc. ...

(1927–2000), laser scientist * William S. Schwartz (1896–1977), American artist *

William Schwartz (law professor) William Schwartz (born 6 May 1933) is an American law professor and corporate director. He graduated magna cum laude in 1955 with a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law. He was professor of law at Boston University from 1955 to 1991, and ...

(born 1933) *

William Schwartz (physician) William Benjamin Schwartz (May 16, 1922 – March 15, 2009) was a pioneering nephrologist who identified rising costs of health care as an incipient problem as early as the 1980s. Schwartz attended Duke University after serving in the Army in ...

(1922–2009)

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