German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
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, , meaning the color
black
Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white ...
. Notable people with the surname include:
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Adolf Schwarz
Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Gálszécs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian chess master.
He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won). ...
(1836–1910), Austrian-Hungarian chess master
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Alan Schwarz
Alan Schwarz (born July 3, 1968) is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and author, formerly at ''The New York Times'', best known for writing more than 100 articles that exposed the National Football League's cover-up of concussions and brought the ...
(born 1968), American writer
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Albert Schwarz
Albert Solomonovich Schwarz (; russian: А. С. Шварц; born June 24, 1934) is a Soviet and American mathematician and a theoretical physicist educated in the Soviet Union and now a professor at the University of California, Davis.
Early lif ...
(born 1934), Russian-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist
* Andreas Schwarz (born 1965), German politician
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Benjamin Schwarz (writer)
Benjamin Schwarz (born October 20, 1963) is an American editor and writer. He has written articles, essays, monographs, and reviews on an array of subjects—from fashion to the American South, from current fiction to the archaeology, from nation ...
(born 1963), American writer
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Berthold Schwarz
Berthold Schwarz (sometimes spelled Schwartz), also known as Berthold the Black and der Schwartzer, was a legendary German (or in some accounts Danish or Greek) alchemist of the late 14th century, credited with the invention of gunpowder by 15t ...
, Franciscan friar
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Bill Schwarz
Bill Schwarz (born 1951) is an English historian, who is a Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, his research focusing on postcolonial history.Brinsley Schwarz (musician), English guitarist
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Christian Friedrich Schwarz
Christian Frederick Schwarz (with spellings including Friedrich and Schwartz or Swartz) (8 October 1726 – 13 February 1798) was a German Lutheran missionary to India. He was known for his linguistic skills, with knowledge of Latin, Greek, Hebre ...
David Schwarz (footballer)
David Schwarz (born 24 July 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer,
who retired in 2002 after playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), for 12 seasons.
Football career
Recruited from Sunbury, S ...
(born 1972), Australian Rules footballer
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Elisabeth Schwarz
Elisabeth Schwarz (born 5 July 1984) is an Austrian operatic soprano. She was born in Salzburg
Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a populat ...
(born 1984), Austrian operatic soprano
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Ernst Schwarz (politician)
Ernst Schwarz (28 January 1886 in Landsberg an der Warthe, Brandenburg – May 29, 1958 in Twickenham) was a Communist politician.
After attending high school, first in his hometown and then in Berlin, Schwarz attended the University of Grenoble, ...
(1886–1958), Communist politician
* Ernst Schwarz (sinologist) (1916–2003), Austrian sinologist and translator
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Ernst Schwarz (zoologist)
Ernst Schwarz (1 December 1889 – 23 September 1962) was a German zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist.
Schwarz was born in Frankfurt and studied zoology in Munich. He worked at the Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt and the Zoological ...
(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
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Franz Xaver Schwarz
Franz Xaver Schwarz (27 November 1875 – 2 December 1947) was a high ranking German Nazi Party official who served as ''Reichsschatzmeister'' (National Treasurer) of the Party throughout most of its existence. He was also one of the highes ...
(1875–1947), Nazi treasurer
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Frederick August Otto Schwarz
Frederick August Otto Schwarz (October 18, 1836 – May 17, 1911) was a German-born American toy retailer known for founding FAO Schwarz.
Biography
Schwarz was born to a German Lutheran family in 1836 at Herford, Province of Westphalia, Ki ...
(1836–1911), German immigrant founder of F.A.O. Schwarz
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Friederike Schwarz Friederike Schwarz (15 January 1910, Prague – 5 May 1945) was a Czech composer, educator, pianist and writer. She, together with her sister, committed suicide during the Prague uprising. She sometimes published under the pseudonym rz.
Biography
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(1910-1945), composer, educator and journalist
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Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz (born August 19, 1947), also known as Gerry Schwarz or Jerry Schwarz, is an American symphony conductor and trumpeter. As of 2019, Schwarz serves as the Artistic and Music Director of Palm Beach Symphony and the Director of Orche ...
(born 1947), American conductor
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Gotthold Schwarz
Gotthold Schwarz (born 2 May 1952 in Zwickau) is a German Bass-baritone and conductor. Based in Leipzig, he started as a member of the Thomanerchor and has conducted the Gewandhausorchester. Between 2016 and 2021, he was the 17th Thomaskantor af ...
(born 1952), German bass-baritone and conductor
* Hans Schwarz (born 1939), German Lutheran theologian
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Harry Schwarz
Harry Heinz Schwarz (13 May 1924 – 5 February 2010) was a South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid in South Africa, who eventually served as the South African Ambassador to the United States ...
(1924–2010), South African lawyer, politician, diplomat and anti-apartheid leader
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Heinrich Schwarz
Heinrich Schwarz (14 June 1906 – 20 March 1947) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and concentration camp officer who served as commandant of Auschwitz III-Monowitz in Nazi-occupied Poland and Natzweiler-Struthof in Alsace-Lorraine.
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(1906–1947), German SS Nazi concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
* 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
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Hermann Amandus Schwarz
Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (; 25 January 1843 – 30 November 1921) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis.
Life
Schwarz was born in Hermsdorf, Silesia (now Jerzmanowa, Poland). In 1868 he married Marie Kumme ...
(1843–1921), German mathematician
* Jacques Schwarz (1856–1921), Austrian chess player
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Jaecki Schwarz
Jaecki Schwarz (born 26 February 1946) is a German actor. With around 120 film and television roles throughout his career, he worked prolifically with DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio, as well as Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF), the sta ...
(born 1946), German actor
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Jessica Schwarz
Jessica Schwarz (born 5 May 1977) is a German film and TV actress.
Life and career
Schwarz was born in Erbach im Odenwald and grew up in the small town of Michelstadt, Germany. She won a contest of the German teen magazine ''Bravo'' in 1993. ...
(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 (1751–87), Russian Freemason
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Josef Schwarz
Josef "Sepp" Schwarz (born 20 Mispণy zl1941 in Strabowitz, Sudetenland, 9.Germany; today Třebovice, Czech Republic) is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's bes ...
(born 1941), Czech-born German long jumper
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Karen Schwarz
Karen Susana Schwarz Espinoza (born 21 January 1981 in Callao, Peru) is a Peruvian model and ex-TV host. She was the co-host of '' Yo Soy''.
Career
In 2011, Schwarz was part of the cast of the TV game show ''El último pasajero'', hosted by Ad ...
(born 1984),
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beauty pageant
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titleholder and
Miss Perú
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, represented Peru in
Miss Universe 2009
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At the end of the event, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela crowned Stefanía Fernández of V ...
* 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
* Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz, (1898 – 1969), phytopathologist and discovered the causal agent of Dutch elm disease
* Michael Schwarz (disambiguation), several people
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Mommie Schwarz
Samuel Leser Schwarz, known as Mommie (28 July 1876 – 19 November 1942) was a Dutch Jewish painter and graphic artist. He also worked as a designer of book covers.
In 1920, he married Else Berg. Together they became an artistic couple and were ...
(1876–1942), Dutch painter
* Otto Schwarz (1876–1981), flautist, clarinettist, piccolo player, travelling musician and band leader
* Paul Schwarz (1867–1939), German orientalist
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Reggie Schwarz
Major Reginald Oscar Schwarz (4 May 1875 – 18 November 1918), known as Reggie Schwarz, was a South African international cricketer and rugby union footballer.
Early life
Schwarz was born in Lee in London in 1875, the son of Robert George Sch ...
(1875–1918), Anglo-South African cricketer and rugby union player
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Robert Schwarz Strauss
Robert Schwarz Strauss (October 19, 1918 – March 19, 2014) was an influential figure in American politics, diplomacy, and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s, he ...
(1918–2014), American government officer
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Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz
Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz (1931 12 November 2017) was a Mexican architect.
Barragán studied at the ITESM, and later under Paul Rudolph at Yale School of Architecture. Afterwards he worked in Italy with Giovanni Michelucci.
Amongst others, he ...
, (1931–2017) Mexican architect
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Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)
Rudolf Schwarz (29 April 190530 January 1994) was an Austrian-born conductor of Jewish ancestry. He became a British citizen and spent the latter half of his life in England.
Biography
Early life
Schwarz was born in a Jewish family in Vien ...