Schumann
Schumann or Schuman is a German surname. It most famously refers to Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer and critic; it may also refer to the following:
People
In athletics
- Desirée Schumann (born 1990), German goalkeeper
- Manfred Schumann (born 1951), German bobsledder
- Margit Schumann (born 1952), 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 the following Robert Schumann
- 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, 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
- Maurice Schumann (1911–1988), French politician
- Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French politician and a founding father of the European Union
In science
- Erich Schumann (1898–1985), German physicist
- Karl Moritz Schumann (1851–1904), German botanist
- Winfried Otto Schumann (1888–1974), German physicist who predicted the Schumann resonance
Other fields
- Allan L. Schuman, businessman
- Scott Schuman (blogger), creator of the fashion blog The Sartorialist
Other uses
- Schuman (Brussels), an area of Brussels
- Robert Schuman University, named for French politician Robert Schuman
- The Schuman Declaration, Robert Schuman's appeal in 1950 to place French and German coal and steel industries under joint management
- The Robert Schuman Prize for European Unity
- Schumann resonances, peaks in the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum, named for Winifred Otto Schumann
- The whole, or part of, the oeuvre of Robert Schumann
- 4003 Schumann, an asteroid
- Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, an American media-analysis organization
- Robert Schumann Hochschule, a university for music and media in Düsseldorf
See also
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