# 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
* Carsten Schmidt (born 1963), German business executive
* Casper Schmidt (1842–1889), American politician
* Charles J. Schmidt (1907–1966), American politician
* Christian Schmidt (born 1957), German politician
* Christian Martin Schmidt (1942-2024), German musicologist and music theorist
* 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
* Elisa Sophia Schmidt, see Femme Schmidt
* Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959), German mathematician
* Eric Schmidt (born 1955), executive chairman, former CEO, of Google
* Erica Schmidt (born 1975), American theatre director and writer
* Erich Schmidt (archaeologist) (1897–1964), German archaeologist
* Erich Schmidt (historian) (1853–1913) German historian of literature
* Femme Schmidt (born 1990), German singer
* 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
* Jan Wenzel Schmidt (born 1991), German politician
* 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) (1932–2024), 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
* Józef Szmidt (1935-2024), Polish Olympic athlete
* Julian Schmidt (politician) (born 1989), German politician
* 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
* Kate Schmidt (born 1953), American javelin thrower
* 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) [de] (1920–2002), commandant Fürstengrube subcamp of Auschwitz, March 1944 – January 1945
* Melissa Schmidt, American politician
* Micaela Schmidt (born 1970), German rower
* 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
* Roger Schmidt (academic) (1931–2018), American theologian and academic
* Roger Schmidt (footballer) (born 1967), German football manager and former player
* 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
* Sophie Schmidt (publisher), American publisher
* 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

* Anna Schmidt, West German student in Mind Your Language, played by Jacki Harding
* Hildegarde Schmidt, character in Murder on the Orient Express
* Johann Schmidt, alias Red Skull, villain character from Marvel Comics
* Kimmy Schmidt, title character in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt played by Ellie Kemper
* Mika Schmidt, playable character in Genshin Impact
* Mike Schmidt, security guard in Five Nights at Freddy's played by Josh Hutcherson
* Shirley Schmidt, American lawyer in Boston Legal played by Candice Bergen
* Warren R. Schmidt, title character in About Schmidt played by Jack Nicholson
* Winston Schmidt, character from New Girl