Richard Schmidt

Richard Schmidt may refer to:

Sports

 * Richard Schmidt (basketball) (born 1942), men's head basketball coach at the University of Tampa
 * Richard Schmidt (rower) (born 1987), German rower at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics
 * Richard Schmidt (fencer), German fencer; see 2018 European Fencing Championships
 * Richard Schmidt (tennis) (born 1965), American tennis player
 * Richard Schmidt, surfer at Mavericks, California

Academics

 * Richard Schmidt (linguist) (1941–2017), researcher in second-language acquisition
 * Richard E. Schmidt (1865–1958), American architect of the Chicago School
 * Richard Schmidt, former professor of music who taught Komitas Vardapet

Others

 * Richard J. Schmidt, American, first person convicted of a crime on evidence from viral DNA analysis
 * Richard Schmidt (cantor) (1877–1958), German cantor and organist
 * Richard Schmidt (Heer), German general and Knight's Cross recipient
 * Richard Schmidt (Indologist), German scholar who worked on the Śukasaptati