title: Schumann (surname)
text: # 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
  