Schmidt (surname)

Schmidt is a common German occupational surname derived from the German word "Schmied" meaning "blacksmith" and/or "metalworker". This surname is the German equivalent of "Smith" in the English-speaking world.

A–G

 * Adriano Schmidt (born 1994), Vietnamese footballer
 * Alexander Schmidt (physiologist) (1831–1894), Baltic German physiologist
 * Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter) (1898–1972), Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist
 * Alica Schmidt (born 1998), German runner
 * Andreas Schmidt (baritone), born 1960, German classical singer
 * Andreas Schmidt (footballer), born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Oliver Schmidt
 * Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995), Dutch writer
 * Arlo Schmidt (1931-2022), American politician and auctioneer
 * Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), German author and translator
 * Arthur Schmidt (disambiguation)
 * Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), Estonian-German astronomer, inventor of the Schmidt camera
 * Bill Schmidt (baseball) (born 1959), American baseball executive
 * Boss Schmidt (1880–1932), American major league catcher
 * Brian Schmidt (born 1967), U.S.-Australian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
 * Brian L. Schmidt (born 1962), music composer for video games and pinball games
 * Bryan Schmidt (born 1981), an American ice hockey player
 * Bryan Schmidt (footballer) (born 1995), Argentine footballer
 * Bryan Thomas Schmidt (born 1969), American writer and editor
 * Burghart Schmidt (1942–2022), German philosopher
 * Burghart Schmidt (historian) (born 1962), German historian
 * Carl Schmidt (chemist) (1822–1894), Baltic German chemist
 * Carl Friedrich Schmidt (disambiguation)
 * Carmela Schmidt (born 1962), East German freestyle swimmer
 * Carolina Schmidt (born 1967), Chilean politician and businesswoman
 * Casper Schmidt (1842–1889), American politician
 * Charles J. Schmidt (1907–1966), American politician
 * Christian Schmidt (born 1957), German politician
 * Clarke Schmidt (born 1996), American baseball player
 * Colton Schmidt (born 1990), American football player
 * Cornelia Schmidt-Liermann (born 1963), Argentine politician
 * Cristian Schmidt (born 1982), Argentine judoka
 * Dagmar Schmidt (born 1973), German politician
 * Damián Schmidt (born 1992), Argentine retired footballer
 * David Schmidt (disambiguation), several people
 * Diane Grob Schmidt, American chemist
 * Earl W. Schmidt (born 1936), American jurist and politician
 * Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823–1886), German zoologist and phycologist
 * Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959), German mathematician
 * Eric Schmidt (born 1955), executive chairman, former CEO, of Google
 * Erich Schmidt (archaeologist) (1897–1964), German archaeologist
 * Erich Schmidt (historian) (1853–1913) German historian of literature
 * Ferenc Schmidt (1941–2011), Hungarian politician and MP
 * Firmin Martin Schmidt (1918–2005), American Roman Catholic bishop
 * Francis Schmidt (1885–1944), American college baseball coach
 * Franklin J. W. Schmidt (1901–1935), American naturalist, brother of Karl Patterson
 * Franz Schmidt (composer) (1874–1939), Austrian composer
 * Frederick Schmidt (born 1984), British actor
 * Frederick D. Schmidt (1932–2003), American politician
 * Frederick W. Schmidt (1932–2003), American theologian and Episcopal priest
 * Friedrich August Schmidt (lexicographer) (Georg Friedrich August Schmidt; 1785–1858), German clergyman, bibliographer and lexicographer
 * Friedrich August Schmidt (engraver) (1787–1855), German engraver, lithographer and painter
 * Friedrich August Schmidt (painter) (1796–1866), German painter and lithographer
 * Friedrich August von Schmidt (1844–1907), German judge and jurist
 * Frithjof Schmidt (born 1953), German politician
 * Fritz Schmidt (disambiguation)
 * Gavin Schmidt, Climatologist
 * Gerhard Schmidt (art historian) (1924–2010), professor of the history of art
 * Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) (1919–1971), organic chemist and chemical crystallographer
 * Gerhard Carl Schmidt (1865–1949), German chemist
 * Gunter Schmidt (born 1938), German sexologist
 * Günter Schmidt (arachnologist) (1926–2016)
 * Gunther Schmidt (born 1939), German mathematician

H–L

 * Hans Schmidt (disambiguation)
 * Hans Christian Schmidt (born 1953), Danish politician
 * Hans-Thilo Schmidt (1888–1943), German spy for France in the 1930s
 * Harald Schmidt (born 1957), German television entertainer
 * Harry Schmidt (Air National Guard), US Air National Guard pilot
 * Harry Schmidt (USMC) (1886–1968), US Marine Corps general
 * Harvey Schmidt (1929–2018), American composer
 * Heide Schmidt (born 1948), Austrian politician
 * Heinrich Schmidt (footballer) (1912–1988), German footballer
 * Heinrich Schmidt (philosopher) (1874-1935), German archivist, naturalist, philosopher, professor and disciple of Ernst Haeckel
 * Heinrich Schmidt (physician) (1912–2000), medic at Majdanek extermination camp
 * Heinrich Schmidt (politician) (1902–1960), NSDAP politician
 * Heinrich Julian Schmidt (1818–1886), German journalist
 * Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 1966), Danish Prime Minister
 * Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), German chancellor
 * Helmut Schmidt (footballer) (born 1949), German football player
 * Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist), German parapsychologist
 * Herbert B. Schmidt (born 1931), German economist
 * Howard A. Schmidt (1949–2017), American computer security specialist
 * Irmin Schmidt (born 1937), German rock keyboard player
 * Isaac Jacob Schmidt (1779–1847), Dutch/Russian linguist and academician
 * Jan Schmidt (director), Czech film director
 * Jacques Schmidt (1933–1996), French costume designer
 * Jason Schmidt (born 1973), American baseball player
 * Jean Schmidt (born 1951), American politician
 * Jean Dolores Schmidt (born 1919), American nun better known as Sister Jean
 * Jessica Schmidt (born 1979), German chess grandmaster
 * Joe Schmidt (American football) (born 1932), American football player
 * Johann Anton Schmidt (1823–1905), German botanist
 * Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1806–1856), German philosopher known as Max Stirner
 * Johannes Schmidt (biologist) (1877–1933), Danish biologist
 * Johannes Schmidt (linguist) (1843–1901), German linguist
 * Joost Schmidt (1893–1948), teacher at the Bauhaus
 * Jordan Schmidt (born 1989), American music producer
 * Josef Schmidt (rugby union) (born 1965), New Zealand rugby union coach
 * Josef Friedrich Schmidt (1871–1948), German board game inventor
 * Joseph Schmidt (1904–1942), singer, actor
 * Joseph Hermann Schmidt (1804–1852), professor of Obstetrics in Berlin
 * Joshua Schmidt (born 1986), American Army Iraq War Veteran
 * Julius Schmidt (disambiguation)
 * Justin O. Schmidt (entomologist), creator of the index of insect sting pain
 * Jürgen Schmidt (born 1941), German speed skater
 * Karl August von Schmidt (1840–1929), German geophysicist
 * Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890–1957), Chief Curator of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History
 * Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976), German painter
 * Katherine Schmidt (1899–1978), American artist
 * Kendall Schmidt (born 1990), American actor, singer
 * Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński (1818–1889), Polish collector and art connoisseur, who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków
 * Kurt Schmidt (1891–1945), German Lieutenant-General during the Second World War
 * Luís Eduardo Schmidt (born 1979), Brazilian football player

M–Z

 * Maarten Schmidt (1929–2022), Dutch-American astronomer
 * Marie Schmidt (1895–1971), German political activist and politician
 * Martin Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Max Schmidt (1818–1901), German painter
 * Max Schmidt (Waffen-SS) (1920–2002), commandant Fürstengrube subcamp of Auschwitz, March 1944 – January 1945
 * Michael Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Mike Schmidt (born 1949), American baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies
 * Milt Schmidt (1918–2017), Canadian hockey player
 * Monika Schmidt, Australian judge
 * Nate Schmidt (born 1991), American ice hockey player
 * Noémie Schmidt (born 1990), Swiss actress
 * Olaf Schmidt (born 1962), German glider aerobatic pilot
 * Ole Schmidt (1928–2010), Danish conductor and composer
 * Oliver Schmidt, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Andreas Schmidt (above)
 * Olle Schmidt (born 1949), Swedish politician
 * Oscar Schmidt (born 1958), Brazilian basketball player
 * Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), Soviet scientist
 * Otto Schmidt (aviator) (1885-1944), German flying ace
 * Paul Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Peter Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Petra Schmidt (born 1963), German soprano
 * Pyotr Schmidt (1867–1906, Russian revolutionary of 1905
 * Renate Schmidt (born 1943), German Federal Minister for family affairs
 * Rob Schmidt (born 1965), American film director and writer
 * Roman Schmidt (1893–1959), Austro-Hungarian flying ace
 * Roman Schmidt (Ukrainian politician) (born 1951), Ukrainian zoologist and politician
 * Sigrid Schmidt (born 1930), German ethnologist and folklorist
 * Sophie Schmidt, Canadian soccer player
 * Stefan Schmidt (born 1981), German politician
 * Steve Schmidt, American campaign strategist and public relations expert for the U.S. Republican Party
 * Thomas Schmidt (footballer)
 * Tim Schmidt (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
 * Tony Schmidt (born 1980), German racing driver
 * Torge Schmidt (born 1988), German politician
 * Torsten Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Ulla Schmidt (born 1949), German Federal Minister for health
 * Uwe Schmidt (born 1966), German politician
 * Vasili Schmidt (1886–1938), Soviet politician and statesman
 * Vera Schmidt (born 1982), Hungarian singer-songwriter
 * Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (1944–2013), German art historian and professor
 * Walter Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Wilhelm Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * William Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Wilma Schmidt (1926–2022), German operatic soprano
 * Wolfgang M. Schmidt (born 1933), mathematician

In fiction

 * Hildegarde Schmidt, character in Murder on the Orient Express
 * Johann Schmidt, character from Marvel Comics
 * Mika Schmidt, playable character in Genshin Impact
 * Winston Schmidt, character from New Girl
 * Shirley Schmidt, American lawyer played by Candice Bergen in Boston Legal
 * Mike Schmidt, security guard played by Josh Hutcherson in Five Nights at Freddy's