Schwartz
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- Abe SchwartzAbe SchwartzAbe Schwartz was a well-known klezmer musician of the 1920s.Abe was born outside of Bucharest, Romania, and moved to the United States in 1899...
(1881-1963), musician - Alan SchwartzAlan SchwartzAlan D. Schwartz is an executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, an investment banking firm based in Chicago and New York. He was the last CEO Bear Stearns before its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase & Co., having succeeded James E. Cayne who remained chairman.-History at Bear Stearns:Alan...
(fl. late 20th century), businessperson - Albert SchwartzAlbert SchwartzAlbert L. Schwartz was an American swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1932 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle event.-External links:**...
, American swimmer - Allyson SchwartzAllyson SchwartzAllyson Young Schwartz is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes parts of Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia...
(born 1948) - Alvin Schwartz (disambiguation), multiple people
- Andrea SchwartzAndrea SchwartzAndrea Schwartz is a former international butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 15th position in the 200m Butterfly, and in 20th place in the 400m Freestyle...
(born 1977), Canadian swimmer - Annetta SchwartzAnnetta SchwartzAnnetta Schwartz was one of the first distinguished female performers in Yiddish theater. She and her sister Margaretta shared prima donna duties in Abraham Goldfaden's troupe in Romania beginning in 1877. Jacob Adler described the sisters as "absolutely respectable" women with classical training...
, Romanian musician - Arthur SchwartzArthur SchwartzArthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...
(1900-1984) - Barbara Schwartz (artist), American artist
- Bernard L. SchwartzBernard L. SchwartzBernard Leon Schwartz was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., Chairman and CEO of Loral Corp., and president and CEO of Globalstar. He retired from Loral and his positions at its various subsidiaries and affiliates as of...
- Berthold Schwartz, monk
- Buky SchwartzBuky Schwartz-Biography:Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel in...
(born 1932), an Israeli sculptor - Catherine SchwartzCatherine SchwartzCatherine Michelle Schwartz is an American television personality perhaps best known for her former role as co-host on the TechTV television program Call for Help with Leo Laporte.-Early years:...
(born 1977), television personality - Daniel SchwartzDaniel SchwartzDaniel Schwartz is an illustrator. His work has appear in publications including Redbook.- External links :*...
- David J. SchwartzDavid J. SchwartzDavid J. Schwartz is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, whose book Superpowers was a finalist for the Nebula Award.-External links:*, the author's official site. Includes his blog and bibliography....
, an American fiction writer - Delmore SchwartzDelmore SchwartzDelmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when Schwartz was nine, and their divorce had a profound effect on him. Later, in 1930,...
, American poet and short-story writer - Ed SchwartzEd SchwartzEd Schwartz was a Chicago media personality who hosted local late-night radio programs from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. He was nicknamed "Chicago Ed."-Early life and education:...
, Chicago media personality - Eddie SchwartzEddie SchwartzEddie Schwartz is a Canadian musician and Juno Award winner who had moderate success as a recording artist in the early 1980s, before becoming a successful songwriter, and record producer in the late 1980s and the 1990s....
, Canadian songwriter and record producer - Eduard SchwartzEduard SchwartzEduard Schwartz was a German classical philologist.Born in Kiel, he studied under Hermann Usener, Mommsen and Wilamovitz-Moellendorf. Schwartz taught in at least half a dozen universities culminating with a post in Munich. He published numerous articles and works in the area of Greek and Roman...
, German classical philologist - Eduardo SchwartzEduardo SchwartzEduardo Saul Schwartz is a professor of finance at the Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the California Chair in Real Estate & Land Economics...
, finance academic - Elliott SchwartzElliott SchwartzElliott Schwartz is an American composer. A graduate of Columbia University, He was Beckwith Professor Emeritus of music at Bowdoin College joining the faculty in 1964. In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired his papers to make them part of their permanent collection...
(born 1936), American composer - Geoff SchwartzGeoff SchwartzGeoffrey Isaiah Schwartz is an American football offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League.-Early years:...
(born 1986), American NFL football player (Carolina PanthersCarolina PanthersThe Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...
) - Gerry SchwartzGerry SchwartzGerald W. Schwartz, OC born c.1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian businessman. In 1977 he co-founded CanWest Global Communications Inc, followed by Onex Corporation in 1983. He has been a director of Scotiabank since 1999...
- Glenn Schwartz (musician)
- Howard Schwartz (writer and editor)Howard Schwartz (writer and editor)Howard Schwartz is a widely regarded folklorist, author, poet, and editor of dozens of books. He has won the international Koret Jewish Book Award, for the book Before You Were Born, and won the 2005 National Jewish Book Award for Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism...
, American folklorist - Isaïe SchwartzIsaïe SchwartzIsaïe Schwartz was the Great Rabbi of France at the beginning of World War II....
, former great rabbi of France - Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz ("The Ghetto Midget"; 1900-88), American world champion flyweight boxer
- Jack SchwartzJack SchwartzJacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language and the NYU Ultracomputer...
(1930-2009), mathematician & computer scientist - Jean SchwartzJean SchwartzJean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
(1878-1956), songwriter - Jeffrey H. SchwartzJeffrey H. SchwartzJeffrey Hugh Schwartz, PhD, is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President of the World Academy of Art and Science ....
, American physical anthropologist - Jeffrey M. SchwartzJeffrey M. SchwartzJeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. is an American psychiatrist and researcher in the field of neuroplasticity and its application to obsessive-compulsive disorder .-Biography:...
, American neuroscientist - John SchwartzJohn SchwartzJohn Schwartz was an Anti-Lecompton Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
, American politician - John Schwartz (photographer)John Schwartz (photographer)John Swartz was a photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in the early 20th century. He is notable for taking the only known portrait of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang....
, American photographer - John Burnham SchwartzJohn Burnham Schwartz-Career:John Burnham Schwartz was born in 1965 and grew up in New York City. He is best known for his novels Reservation Road and The Commoner . His fifth novel, Northwest Corner, a sequel to Reservation Road, will be published in August 2011...
, American novelist - Jon Schwartz (drummer)Jon Schwartz (drummer)Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz is a drummer best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic. The two met while recording "Another One Rides the Bus" at the Dr. Demento show on September 14, 1980...
(born 1956), American drummer - Jonathan Schwartz (radio)Jonathan Schwartz (radio)Jonathan Schwartz is an American radio personality, known for his devotion to traditional pop music.Schwartz worked at New York's WNEW-FM from 1967 to 1976, followed by stints at WNEW-AM, WQEW, and currently WNYC-FM...
- Jonathan I. SchwartzJonathan I. SchwartzJonathan Ian Schwartz is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Picture of Health. He was formerly the President and CEO of Sun Microsystems prior to its acquisition by Oracle, and previously the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lighthouse Design, Ltd., a software company focused on...
, American business manager - Josh SchwartzJosh Schwartz-Film school at USC:In 1995, Schwartz realized his boyhood dream of attending film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California...
(born 1976), American writer & producer - Julius SchwartzJulius SchwartzJulius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York...
(1915-2004), editor & agent - Laurent SchwartzLaurent SchwartzLaurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields medal in 1950 for his work...
(1915-2002), french mathematician - Margaretta SchwartzMargaretta SchwartzMargeretta Schwartz was one of the first distinguished female performers in Yiddish theater. She and her sister Annetta shared prima donna duties in Abraham Goldfaden's troupe in Romania beginning in 1877. Jacob Adler described the sisters as "absolutely respectable" women with classical training...
- Melvin SchwartzMelvin SchwartzMelvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.He grew up in...
, American physicist - Morrie SchwartzMorrie SchwartzMorris "Morrie" S. Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie, which was published in 1997 and later made into a movie....
- Norton A. SchwartzNorton A. SchwartzNorton Allan Schwartz is a United States Air Force general who is serving as the 19th Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He previously served as Commander, United States Transportation Command from September 2005 to August 2008...
, GeneralGeneral (United States)In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, general is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. General ranks above lieutenant general and below General of the Army or General of the Air Force; the Marine Corps does not have an...
in the USAFUnited States Air ForceThe United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
and Chief of Staff of the Air ForceChief of Staff of the United States Air ForceThe Chief of Staff of the Air Force is a statutory office held by a four-star general in the United States Air Force, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Air Force, and as such is the principal military advisor and a deputy to the Secretary of the...
. - Pepper SchwartzPepper SchwartzPepper Schwartz, PhD, is an American sociologist and sexologist teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. She is the author or co-author of numerous books, magazines, website columns, and a television personality on the subject of sexuality.Schwartz is notable...
- Peter Schwartz (disambiguation), multiple people
- Randal L. SchwartzRandal L. SchwartzRandal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:...
- Richard SchwartzRichard SchwartzRichard Evan Schwartz is an American mathematician notable for his contributions to geometric group theory and to an area of mathematics known as billiards...
- Richard H. SchwartzRichard H. SchwartzRichard H. Schwartz, Ph.D, is Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, College of Staten Island; President of the ; and co-founder and coordinator of the . He is best known as a vegetarian activist and advocate for animal rights in the United States and Israel...
- Scott SchwartzScott SchwartzScott Schwartz is a former child actor best known for his roles in The Toy and A Christmas Story.-Career:Schwartz co-starred opposite Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason in 1982's The Toy directed by Richard Donner. In 1982, Schwartz filmed Kidco directed by Ronald F. Maxwell...
(1968-), American child actor - Scott L. SchwartzScott L. SchwartzScott L. Schwartz is an Israeli born American film and television actor and stuntman, and former professional wrestler. His size and agility at and have allowed him many roles as thug or villain for film and television.- Background :...
, towering American actor best known for "The Bruiser" in the Ocean's Eleven film series - Sherwood SchwartzSherwood SchwartzSherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC...
(born 1916), television writer, producer - Stephen Schwartz (composer)Stephen Schwartz (composer)Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked...
(born 1948), composer and lyricist - Stephen Schwartz (journalist)Stephen Schwartz (journalist)Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is an American Muslimjournalist, columnist, and author. He has been published in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal. He is the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism...
(born 1948), journalist - Stephen E. SchwartzStephen E. SchwartzStephen E. Schwartz is an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He served from 2004 to 2009 as the Chief Scientist of the of the United States Department of Energy...
(born 1941), atmospheric scientist - Teodoro SchwartzTeodoro SchwartzTivadar Soros was a Hungarian doctor, lawyer, author and editor. He is perhaps best known for being the father of the legendary businessman and investor, George Soros....
(1894-1968) - William S. SchwartzWilliam S. SchwartzWilliam S. Schwartz was an American artist who lived and worked in Chicago.-Biography:Schwartz was born in Smorgon in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire in 1896. His parents were Samuel Schwartz and Tauba Reznikoff. At the age of thirteen, he moved to the nearby city of Vilna to attend art school...
, American artist
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- The Schwartz in the film SpaceballsSpaceballsSpaceballs is a 1987 American science fiction comedy parody film co-written by, directed by, Mel Brooks and starring Bill Pullman, John Candy, Mel Brooks & Rick Moranis. It also features, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on...
, a spoof of the Force (Star Wars)Force (Star Wars)The Force is a binding, metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star Wars galaxy created by George Lucas. Mentioned in the first film in the series, it is integral to all subsequent incarnations of Star Wars, including the expanded universe of comic books, novels, and... - SchwartzSchwartz (brand)The Schwartz company was founded in 1841 to sell coffee in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1984 McCormick & Company took over the brand, thereby becoming the world's largest producer of herbs, spices, and seasonings....
Spices, a spice brand and a defunct Canadian company