Maurice Schwob (7 May 1859 – 30 March 1928) was a French publisher of the daily newspaper Le Phare de la Loire [fr],[1] based in Nantes.
The newspaper had been sold to Maurice's father, Georges Schwob, in 1876 by Evariste Mangin.
His father, George Schwob, was a friend of Théodore de Banville and Théophile Gautier.
His mother, Mathilde Cahun, came from a family of intellectuals from Alsace.
He was the brother of symbolist writer Marcel Schwob and the father of the surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob).