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
• 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

• 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
• Erik Schumann (1925-2007), German actor
• 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