Schumann (surname)
# Schumann (surname)

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

## In athletics

* 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

* 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
* 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

* 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

* 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

* Allan L. Schuman (born 1934), businessman
* 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
