Shvets (alternate spellings Shwets, Schwets, Švets, Švec, Svec, Shwec, Chvets) is a Ukrainian (Швець Shvets) and Czech (Švec, Shvets) occupational surname literally meaning "cobbler" or "shoemaker". In Russian the word means "tailor" (obsolete).
The surname may refer to:
- Anton Shvets (born 1993), Ukrainian-born Russian footballer
- Fedir Shvets (1882–1940), Ukrainian geologist, public activist and statesman
- Oksana Shvets (1955—2022), Ukrainian actress
- Yana Shvets (born 1989), Ukrainian singer
- Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (1902–1972), Soviet cinematic artist
- Yuri Shvets (born 1952), former KGB Major
- Mark Švets (born 1976), Estonian international footballer
- Jiří Švec (1935—2014), Czech wrestler
- Otakar Švec (1892—1955), Czech sculptor
See also
- All pages with titles containing Shvets
- Shevchenko
- Shevchuk
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