Schwarz

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Schwarz is a common surname, derived from the German schwarz, meaning black.

Its variants include Schwartz, Schwarts, Schwarze, Swartz, Shwarz, Schwarcz, Szwarc (a Polonized version), Shvarts (from the Russianized Шварц). In the United States, Schwartz is ranked 432nd in the list of most common surnames, Swartz ranks 1332nd, and Schwarz is 2567th. [1].

It is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname, often of those descending from middle class German or Russian Jewish families. ^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Schwarz 1.1 People 1.2 Other Uses 2 Schwartz 2.1 People 2.2 Other uses 3 Swartz 3.1 People 3.2 Other uses 4 Schwarze 4.1 People 4.2 Other uses 5 Szwarc 5.1 People 6 Other 6.1 People 7 See also

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[edit] People

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[edit] Other Uses

• F.A.O. Schwarz, a toy store
• Schwarz lemma, a mathematical result about holomorphic functions
  • Schwarz–Ahlfors–Pick theorem, an extension of the Schwarz lemma for hyperbolic manifolds
• Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, a concept in inner product space mathematics
• Schwarz Publishing, an Australian publishing house
• Schwarz Stein, a Japanese music band
• Green-Schwarz mechanism, an interaction in string theory
• Tiefschwarz, a German electro house music group
• Schwarz is a cult in the anime and manga series My-Otome.
• Schwarz is also the name of one of the villain assassin groups in the anime and manga series Weiss Kreuz.

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[edit] Other uses

• Scherk-Schwartz mechanism, a concept in theoretical physics
• Schwartz's, a delicatessen
• Schwartz set, a set of candidates in voting theory
• Schwarz Productions, a movie producing company

[edit] Swartz

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[edit] Other uses

• Swartz Bay in British Columbia
• Swartz, Louisiana
• Swartz Creek, Michigan

[edit] Schwarze

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• Achim Schwarze (born 1958), German author

[edit] Other uses

• Schwarze Elster, a river in Germany
• Schwarze Kapelle, a group which conspired to overthrow Adolph Hitler
• Das Schwarze Korps, the official newspaper of the SS

[edit] Szwarc

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• Amanda Szwarc
• Jan Szwarc, Polish politician (SLD-UP)
• Jeannot Szwarc (born 1939), French film director.
• Michel (Michal) Szwarc, polish mathematician

[edit] Other

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• Joseph A. Schwarcz, professor of chemistry
• Thérèse Schwartze (1852–1918), Dutch portrait painter
• Evgeny Shvarts (1896-1958), Russian dramatist
• Susan Shwartz (born 1949), American author

[edit] See also

• Black (surname)
• Schwarzmann
• Spaceballs - featured the "Schwartz" as a parody of the Force of Star Wars