Schwartz is a last name of German/Yiddish (German-Jewish) origin, meaning "black" (modern spelling in German is schwarz [ˈʃvaʁts] ). It was originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion. It may refer to:
- A. R. Schwartz (Aaron Robert Schwartz, 1926–2018), Texas politician
- Abe Schwartz (1881–1963), musician
- Al Schwartz, multiple people
- Alba Schwartz (1857–1942), Danish writer
- Allyson Schwartz, former US Representative from Pennsylvania
- Amy Schwartz, multiple people
- Andrea Schwartz (born 1977), Canadian swimmer
- Anna Schwartz (1915–2012), American economist
- Annetta Schwartz, Romanian musician
- Anton Schwartz (born 1967), American jazz musician
- Arthur Schwartz (1900–1984)
- Barbara Schwartz (artist) (1949–2006), American artist
- Barry Schwartz (psychologist) (born 1946), American psychologist
- Bernard Schwartz (1925–2010), birth name of American actor Tony Curtis
- Ben Schwartz (born 1981), American actor
- Bernard L. Schwartz (1925–2024)
- Berthold Schwartz, monk
- Bill Schwartz, several people
- Buky Schwartz (1932–2009), Israeli sculptor
- Catherine Schwartz (born 1977), American television personality
- Chandra Lee Schwartz (born 1981), American theatre performer
- David Schwartz
- Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), American poet and short-story writer
- Ed Schwartz (1946–2009), Chicago media personality
- Eddie Schwartz (born 1949), Canadian songwriter and record producer
- Eduard Schwartz (1858–1940), German classical philologist
- Eduardo Schwartz (born 1940), finance academic
- Edward Joseph Schwartz, American judge
- Elliott Schwartz (1936–2016), American composer
- Evgeny Schwartz (1896–1958), Soviet writer
- Felice Schwartz, American feminist writer
- Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American NFL football player
- Gerry Schwartz (born 1941), Canadian businessman
- György Schwartz, aka George Soros (born 1930), billionaire
- George X. Schwartz (1915–2010), American politician
- Glenn Schwartz (1940–2018), American musician, member of the band Pacific Gas & Electric
- Gustav Schwartz (1809–1890), Austrian paleontologist
- Hanit Schwartz (born 1987), Israeli women's soccer goalkeeper
- Harry Schwartz, multiple people
- Herbert Schwartz, American college sports coach
- Hillel Schwartz (1923–2007), Egyptian politician
- Hillel Schwartz (historian) (born 1948), American cultural historian
- Howard Schwartz (writer and editor), American folklorist
- Isaïe Schwartz (1876–1952), former great rabbi of France
- Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz alias "The Ghetto Midget" (1900–1988), American world champion flyweight boxer
- Jack Schwartz (1930–2009), American mathematician & computer scientist
- Jaden Schwartz (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jim Schwartz (born 1966), former NFL head coach, former Defensive Coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles
- Jean Schwartz (1878–1956), songwriter
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz (born 1948), American physical anthropologist
- Jeffrey M. Schwartz, American neuroscientist
- Jerome T. Schwartz (born 1951), American politician
- John Schwartz, several people
- Jonathan Schwartz, several people named Jon or Jonathan
- Joseph Schwartz, multiple people
- Josh Schwartz (born 1976), American writer & producer
- Julius Schwartz (1915–2004), editor & agent
- Lauren-Marie Taylor (born Lauren Schwartz; 1961–), actress
- Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002), French mathematician
- Lillian Schwartz (born 1927), American artist
- Louis B. Schwartz (1913–2003), American law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Margaretta Schwartz, Yiddish singer
- Marie Sophie Schwartz (1819–1894), Swedish novelist
- Melvin Schwartz (1932–2006), American physicist
- Mike Schwartz (born 1949), American-Israeli basketball player and coach
- Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995), American academic and author, subject of the book Tuesdays with Morrie
- Morris Schwartz (1901–2004), American photographer
- Morry Schwartz (born 1948), Australian property developer and publisher
- Murray Schwartz (Queens politician) (1919–2001), New York politician
- Murray Merle Schwartz (1931–2013), US federal judge from Delaware
- Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
- Pedro Schwartz, Spanish economist
- Pepper Schwartz (born 1945), American sociologist and sexologist
- Peter Schwartz, multiple people
- Randal L. Schwartz (born 1961), computer scientist
- Richard Schwartz
- Robert M. Schwartz (1920–2008), American ordnance engineer
- Scott Schwartz (born 1968), American child actor
- Scott L. Schwartz, American actor best known for "The Bruiser" in the Ocean's Eleven film series
- Seymour I. Schwartz (1928–2020), American physician
- Shalom H. Schwartz, social psychologist, cross-cultural researcher
- Sherwood Schwartz (1916–2011), American television writer, producer
- Shuki Schwartz (born 1954), Israeli basketball player
- Simon Schwartz (born 1982), German illustrator and cartoonist
- Stephen Schwartz (composer) (born 1948), American composer and lyricist
- Stephen Schwartz (journalist) (born 1948), journalist
- Stephen E. Schwartz (born 1941), atmospheric scientist
- Tony Schwartz, multiple people
- William C. Schwartz (1927–2000), laser scientist
- William S. Schwartz (1896–1977), American artist
- William Schwartz (law professor) (born 1933)
- William Schwartz (physician) (1922–2009)