Schumann is a German occupational surname. Notable people with the name 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 Peter Schumann (born 1934), theater director Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer Walter Schumann (1913–1958), American soundtrack 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 Marvin C. Schumann (1906-1994), American politician Maurice Schumann (1911–1998), French politician
In other fields Erich Schumann (1898–1985), German physicist Erik Schumann (1925-2007), German actor Karl Moritz Schumann (1851–1904), German botanist Kjell Alrich Schumann (1966–2025), Norwegian convicted robber and murderer Winfried Otto Schumann (1888–1974), German physicist who predicted the Schumann resonance
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