Schmidt (surname)

Distribution of the name Schmidt in Germany

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
• 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
• 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
• 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, 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

See also

• Smith (surname)
• Schmitt (disambiguation)
• Schmitz
• Schmid
• Schmied
• Smits
• Šmits
• Smeets