Schumacher
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Schumacher or Schuhmacher is an occupational surname (German, "shoemaker", pronounced ˈʃuːmaxɐ, both variants can be used as surnames, with Schumacher being the more popular one, however, only the variant with an "h" can also be used as a job description in modern German spelling). Some notable people surnamed Schumacher:

In sports:
  • Anton Schumacher
    Anton Schumacher
    Anton 'Toni' Schumacher is a former German football goalkeeper.Schumacher played for 1. FC Köln since 1950, from 1963 to 1968 the team played in the Bundesliga. In 1964 he won the German Championship....

     (born 1938), German football (soccer) goalkeeper
  • Cori Schumacher
    Cori Schumacher
    Cori Schumacher is an international, professional surfer from Cardiff, California.Schumacher was born April 23, 1977 in Huntington Beach, California, to Craig Allen Schumacher and Jeannette Lorrainne Michaud . Both her parents were avid surfers. Her mother surfed pregnant with her until she was a...

    , (born 1977) international surfer, three-time Women's World Longbording Champion (2000,2001, 2010), two-time ASP North American Champion (2008, 2009), Pipeline Champion (2009), 1995 Pan-American Champion
  • Günther Schumacher
    Günther Schumacher
    Günther Schumacher is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer born in East Germany, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1984...

     (born 1949), German track and road cyclist
  • Harald "Toni" Schumacher
    Harald Schumacher
    Harald Anton Schumacher , commonly known as Toni Schumacher, is a German former football goalkeeper, and a member of the West German national team. He won the 1980 European Championship and lost two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986...

     (born 1954), German football (soccer) goalkeeper and West Germany team captain
  • Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
    Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
    Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who won two medals at the Summer Olympics during her career...

     (born 1925), Dutch freestyle swimmer
  • Kelly Schumacher
    Kelly Schumacher
    Kelly Schumacher is an American born Canadian professional basketball player and professional volleyball player...

     (born 1977), Canadian WNBA basketball player
  • Kurt Schumacher (American football)
    Kurt Schumacher (American football)
    Kurt Schumacher is a former American football guard and tackle in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was the 12th overall pick in the 1975 NFL Draft.-External links:*...

     (born 1952), NFL player
  • Michael Schumacher
    Michael Schumacher
    Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time...

     (born 1969), German Formula One
    Formula One
    Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

     driver and 7 times World Champion
  • Ralf Schumacher
    Ralf Schumacher
    Ralf Schumacher is a German racing driver, and the younger brother of seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher...

     (born 1975), German DTM driver, former Formula One driver, younger brother of Michael
  • Raymond R. Schumacher
    Raymond R. Schumacher
    Raymond Richard Schumacher served in the Army Air Force during World War II, played as a fullback for the Chicago Bears after the war, and later worked as civil engineer for the City of Chicago.- History:...

     (born 1924), American football player (Chicago Bears)
  • Sandra Schumacher
    Sandra Schumacher
    Sandra Schumacher is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer, who represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics. There she won the bronze medal in the women's road race, finishing behind USA riders Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Rebecca Twigg .-References:*...

     (born 1966), German track and road cyclist
  • Stefan Schumacher
    Stefan Schumacher
    Stefan Schumacher is a German professional road racing cyclist.-Career:First professionally employed with Team Telekom in 2002, he was released the following year...

     (born 1981), German road racing cyclist
  • Steven Schumacher
    Steven Schumacher
    Steven Thomas Schumacher is an English footballer who plays for Bury. His position is central midfielder.-Everton:...

     (born 1984), English football (soccer) midfielder
  • Schumacher
    Thiago Maier dos Santos
    Schumacher is a Brazilian footballer who played striker of German descent. He currently plays for Volyn Lutsk.On 31 August 2009, he was loaned to Austrian side Austria Wien....

     (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
  • Schumacher
    Flávio Sérgio Viana
    Flavio Sergio Viana known as Schumacher is a Brazilian futsal player, currently playing for Inter Movistar in Spain. He was elected as the 2008 World's Best Futsal Player. His nickname is a reference to German football goalkeeper Harald Schumacher.- External links:*...

     (born 1975), Brazilian futsal player
  • Tony Schumacher (born 1969), American dragster racer


In science:
  • Benjamin Schumacher
    Benjamin Schumacher
    Benjamin Schumacher is a U.S. theoretical physicist, working mostly in the field of quantum information theory.He discovered a way of interpreting quantum states as information. He came up with a way of compressing the information in a state, and storing the information in a smaller number of...

    , US theoretical physicist
  • E. F. "Fritz" Schumacher
    E. F. Schumacher
    Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s...

     (1911–1977), British economist
  • Eugen Schuhmacher
    Eugen Schuhmacher
    Eugen Schuhmacher was a German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries. Besides Bernhard Grzimek and Heinz Sielmann he belongs to the German documentary filmmakers with an international reputation.-Biography:Eugen Schuhmacher was born in Stuttgart, Germany...

     (1906–1973), German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries
  • Heinrich Christian Schumacher
    Heinrich Christian Schumacher
    Heinrich Christian Schumacher was a German-Danish astronomer.-Biography:He was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, and studied at Kiel, Jena, Copenhagen, and Göttingen. In 1810, he became adjunct professor of astronomy in Copenhagen...

     (1780–1850), German astronomer
  • Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
    Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
    Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen...

    , (1757–1830), German-Danish surgeon, botanist, malacologist and anatomist
  • William Schumacher Massey
    William S. Massey
    William Schumacher Massey is an American mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology. The Massey product is named for him. He worked also on the formulation of spectral sequences by means of exact couples, and wrote several textbooks, including Algebraic Topology .William Massey was...

     (born 1920), American mathematician


In others:
  • Elisabeth Schumacher
    Elisabeth Schumacher
    Elisabeth Schumacher, née Hohenemser, was an artist and resistance fighter in the Third Reich. She belonged to the Red Orchestra resistance group.- Life :...

     (born Hohenemser, 1904–1942), artist and German executed Resistance fighter
  • Emil Schumacher
    Emil Schumacher
    Emil Schumacher German painter, important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany....

     ( (born 29. August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen; died 4. Oktober 1999 in San José, Ibiza), German artist, co-founder of abstract art movement in Germany and representative of the "Informel" movement.
  • Ferdinand Schumacher
    Ferdinand Schumacher
    Ferdinand Schumacher , aka The Oatmeal King, was a German immigrant, an American entrepreneur and one of the founders of companies which merged to become the Quaker Oats Company.-Biography:...

     (1822–1908), American entrepreneur known as "the Oatmeal King"
  • Fritz Schumacher (architect)
    Fritz Schumacher (architect)
    Fritz Schumacher was a German architect and urban designer.Schumacher was born into a diplomatic family in Bremen. The family Schumacher has been living there since 15th century....

    , (1869–1947 in Hamburg), German architect and urban designer
  • Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher
    Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old...

     (born 1939), US film director, writer and producer
  • Kurt Schumacher
    Kurt Schumacher
    Dr. Kurt Schumacher , was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag parliament from 1949 until his death...

     (1895–1952), German social-democratic politic leader
  • Kurt Schumacher (sculptor)
    Kurt Schumacher (sculptor)
    Kurt Schumacher was a sculptor and Communist member of the German Resistance against National Socialism. He was married to the painter and graphic designer, Elisabeth Schumacher and was in the Red Orchestra.- Biography :...

     (1904–1942), German sculptor and executed Resistance fighter
  • Peder Griffenfeld
    Peder Griffenfeld
    Count Peder Griffenfeld was a Danish statesman.-Early years:Born at Copenhagen into a wealthy trading family connected with the leading civic, clerical and learned circles in the Danish capital, he was prepared for university byJens Vorde...

     (born Schumacher, 1635–1699), Danish statesman
  • Pyotr Schumacher (1817-1891), Russian poet
  • Ståle Schumacher (born 1972), Norwegian software author
  • Thomas Schumacher
    Thomas Schumacher
    Thomas Schumacher is a theatrical producer, currently president of Disney Theatrical Group, the theatrical production arm of The Walt Disney Company.-Biography:...

    , American theatrical producer
  • Troy Schumacher, New York City Ballet dancer
  • Wim Schumacher (1894 - 1986), Dutch painter and designer
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