Famous people named Schumacher

The racing Schumachers

• Michael Schumacher (born 1969), seven-time Formula One world champion with Benetton and Ferrari.
• Ralf Schumacher (born 1975), his younger brother, a Grand Prix winner who later raced in DTM.
• Mick Schumacher (born 1999), Michael's son, who reached Formula One with Haas.
• David Schumacher (born 2001), Ralf's son, a racing driver in his own right.

Football and other sports

Harald "Toni" Schumacher (born 1954) kept goal for West Germany, captained the side and won the 1980 European Championship. Track cyclist Günther Schumacher (born 1949) won Olympic gold twice in the team pursuit, and Canadian Kelly Schumacher (born 1977) won two WNBA titles. Surfer Cori Schumacher (born 1977) was a three-time world longboard champion.

Other fields

The economist E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977), author of Small Is Beautiful, gave the name a life outside motorsport. Football had Harald "Toni" Schumacher (born 1954), West Germany's goalkeeper and captain and a European champion in 1980. Cycling had Stefan Schumacher (born 1981), and American drag racing has Tony Schumacher (born 1969), eight times NHRA Top Fuel champion. In science, the German-Danish surgeon and botanist Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) described many shells and plants. In the German resistance, the artist Elisabeth Schumacher (1904–1942) was executed for opposing the Nazi regime as part of the resistance circle the Gestapo called the Red Orchestra.

Ideas and science

• E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977), German-born British economist and author of Small Is Beautiful.
• Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780–1850), astronomer who founded the journal Astronomische Nachrichten.
• Eugen Schuhmacher (1906–1973), zoologist and a pioneer of wildlife films.
• Carol Schumacher (born 1960), Bolivian-American mathematician.

Every town once had a shoemaker, so these families are almost all unrelated, and the double spelling (Schumacher and Schuhmacher) appears among them. Arms, likewise, belonged to individual lines. Find the meaning and origin on our Schumacher coat of arms page and research tips in Schumacher family history and genealogy.