Schumann (surname)

Schumann is a German occupational surname. Notable people with the name, in English often Schuman, include:

## In athletics

[edit]

* Desirée Schumann (born 1990), German goalkeeper
* Manfred Schumann (born 1951), German bobsledder
* Margit Schumann (1952–2017), German luger
* Nils Schumann (born 1978), German athlete
* Ralf Schumann (born 1962), German champion 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol shooter

## In music

[edit]

* Clara Schumann (née Wieck, 1819–1896), German pianist and composer; wife of Robert Schumann
* Coco Schumann (1924–2018), German jazz musician
* Elisabeth Schumann (1888–1952), German opera soprano
* Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861–1936), opera singer
* Eugenie Schumann (1851-1938), German pianist and author, daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann
* Georg Schumann (composer) (1866–1952), German composer and director
* John Schumann (born 1953), Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist, formerly in Redgum
* Melissa Schuman (born 1984), American singer and actress
* Peter Schumann (born 1934), theater director
* Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer
* Tom Schuman (born 1958), American jazz musician
* Walter Schumann (1913–1958), American soundtrack composer
* William Schuman (1910–1992), American composer

## In politics

[edit]

* Alfred O. Schumann (1924–2013), American politician
* Conrad Schumann (1942–1998), East German soldier who defected to the West
* Georg Schumann (resistance fighter) (1886–1945), German Communist and resistance fighter against the Nazis
* Dr. Horst Schumann (1906–1983), German Nazi SS-Sturmbannführer, participated in criminal medical experiments at Auschwitz
* John C. Schuman (1881–1971), American politician and farmer
* Marvin C. Schumann (1906-1994), American politician
* Maurice Schumann (1911–1998), French politician
* Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French politician and a founding father of the European Union

## In science

[edit]

* Erich Schumann (1898–1985), German physicist
* Howard Schuman (1928–2021), American sociologist
* Karl Moritz Schumann (1851–1904), German botanist
* Winfried Otto Schumann (1888–1974), German physicist who predicted the Schumann resonance

## In other fields

[edit]

* Allan L. Schuman (born 1934), businessman
* Kjell Alrich Schumann (1966–2025), Norwegian convicted robber and murderer
* Patricia G. Schuman (born 1943), American librarian and publisher
* Paul R. Schumann (1876–1946), American painter
* Scott Schuman (blogger), creator of the fashion blog The Sartorialist

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Schumann.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.

* v
* t
* e

Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler / shoemaker / cordwainer

Celtic|

* Quéré
* Grass, Gracey, Gracie, Grassie, Grassick

Germanic|

* DeSutter/De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter
* Scheemaeckers, Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers
* Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schuhmann, Schumaker, Schoemaker, Schoeman, Schoomaker, Schuster, Shoemark, Schumann, Shumacher, Shumaker, Shoemaker, Shuman, Shumann, Shuster, Schubart, Schubert, Shubert, Schuchardt
* Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel, Polonized: Szubert, Szuman, Szuster

Romance|

* Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Soutar, Souttar, Sutor, De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto, Le Sueur

* Scarpa, Scarponi, Callegari, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari

* Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corvaisier Sabaté, Sabater Sabatier
* Crispino
* Sapateiro, Zapatero

* borrowings from Slavic: Cebotari, Ciubotaru/Ciubotariu/Ciobotariu/Ciobotaru

Slavic|

* Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko
* Cizmar/Čizmar/Čižmár/Čižman
* Łatacz
* Sapozhnikov
* Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk
* Šubert, Šubrt
* Šuštar (from Schuster)
* Szydło

Other|

* from סנדלר; "sandal-maker": HaSandlar, Sandler / Sendler
* Skujenieks
* Suutari
* Kingsepp
* Varga
* Csizmadia

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template