Schulze is a German surname, from the medieval office of Schulze, or village official. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Andrew Schulze (1896–1982), clergyman and civil rights activist
  • Christina Schulze (born 1964)
  • Edmund Schulze (1824–1878), German organ builder, or four previous generations of his family in the same profession
  • Ernst Schulze, multiple people
  • Frank Schulze (born 1970), German footballer
  • Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883), German economist
  • Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921), German anatomist and zoologist
  • Friedrich August Schulze (1770–1849), German novelist
  • Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761–1833), German professor and philosopher
  • Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 1934), German Bach scholar
  • Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909–1942), left-wing German publicist, Luftwaffe officer, and anti-fascist resistance fighter
  • Horst Schulze, founder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
  • Horst Schulze (1921–2018), German actor and opera singer
  • Joan Schulze (born 1936), American artist, lecturer, and poet
  • Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687–1744), German academic, inventor of a primitive photogram
  • John Schulze, multiple people
  • Karl Schulze, German rower
  • Klaus Schulze (1947–2022), German musician
  • Klaus-Peter Schulze (born 1954), German politician
  • Kurt Schulze (1894–1942), German resistance fighter
  • Lara Schulze (born 2002), German chess master
  • Ludwig Schulze, Papua New Guinean politician
  • Luisa Schulze (born 1990), German handball player
  • Luise Schulze-Berghof (1889–1970), German composer, pianist, and teacher
  • Mark Schulze, rugby player
  • Martin Schulze Wessel, German historian
  • Maximilian Schulze Niehues, German footballer
  • Paul Schulze, multiple people
  • Paul Schulze (born 1962), American actor
  • Richard Schulze, multiple people
  • Sven Schulze (born 1979), German politician, minister-president of Saxony-Anhalt (2026–)
  • Tobias Schulze (born 1976), German politician
  • William August Schulze, rocket scientist recruited in 1945 by "Operation Paperclip"
  • Willibald Schulze, German writer

See also

  • Schulze method, a single-winner election method
  • Schulze STV, a method of proportional representation by the single transferable vote
  • Müller-Schulze Gambit, a chess gambit
  • Schulze Baking Company Plant
  • Schütze (surname)