Schmidt_(surname)
Schmidt (surname)
Surname list
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.
- 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
- 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
- Maarten Schmidt (1929–2022), Dutch-American astronomer
- 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
- 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
- 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
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