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, Vietnamese footballer
- Aki Schmidt, German footballer
- Albert Schmidt, multiple people
- Alexander Schmidt, multiple people
- Alexandra M. Schmidt, Brazilian statistician
- Alfred Schmidt, multiple people
- Alica Schmidt, German runner
- Andreas Schmidt, multiple people
- Andy Schmidt, American comic book editor and writer
- Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer
- Arlo Schmidt, American politician and auctioneer
- Arno Schmidt, German author and translator
- Arthur Schmidt, multiple people
- Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German astronomer, inventor of the Schmidt camera
- Bettina Schmidt, East German luger
- Bill Schmidt (baseball), American baseball executive
- Billy Schmidt, Australian footballer
- Boss Schmidt, American major league catcher
- Brian Schmidt, U.S.-Australian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Brian L. Schmidt, music composer for video games and pinball games
- Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- Bryan Schmidt, American ice hockey player
- Bryan Schmidt (footballer), Argentine footballer
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American writer and editor
- Burghart Schmidt, German philosopher
- Burghart Schmidt (historian), German historian
- Carl Schmidt (chemist), Baltic German chemist
- Carl Friedrich Schmidt, multiple people
- Carmela Schmidt, East German freestyle swimmer
- Carolina Schmidt, Chilean politician and businesswoman
- Carsten Schmidt, German business executive
- Casimir Schmidt, Dutch artistic gymnast
- Casper Schmidt, American politician
- Charles J. Schmidt, American politician
- Christen Schmidt, Norwegian bishop
- Christfried Schmidt, German composer and arrangeur
- Christian Schmidt, German politician
- Christian Martin Schmidt, German musicologist and music theorist
- Christoph M. Schmidt, German economist
- Clarke Schmidt, American baseball player
- Colton Schmidt, American football player
- Cornelia Schmidt-Liermann, Argentine politician
- Cristian Schmidt, Argentine judoka
- Dagmar Schmidt, German politician
- Dallas Schmidt, Canadian fighter pilot
- Damián Schmidt, Argentine retired footballer
- Daniel Schmidt, multiple people
- Danny Schmidt, American singer-songwriter
- David Schmidt, multiple people
- Dennis Schmidt, multiple people
- Diane Grob Schmidt, American chemist
- Doke Schmidt, Dutch footballer
- Douglas C. Schmidt, American computer scientist
- Earl W. Schmidt, American jurist and politician
- Edna Schmidt, American journalist
- Eduard Oscar Schmidt, German zoologist and phycologist
- Ekkhard Schmidt-Opper, German field hockey player
- Elisa Sophia Schmidt, see Femme Schmidt
- Erhard Schmidt, German mathematician
- Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, former CEO, of Google
- Erica Schmidt, American theatre director and writer
- Erich Schmidt (archaeologist), German archaeologist
- Erich Schmidt (historian) German historian of literature
- Eugen Schmidt, Danish athlete
- Eugen Schmidt, German politician
- Femme Schmidt, German singer
- Ferenc Schmidt, Hungarian politician and MP
- Firmin Martin Schmidt, American Roman Catholic bishop
- Francis Schmidt, American college baseball coach
- Franklin J. W. Schmidt, American naturalist, brother of Karl Patterson
- Franz Schmidt (composer), Austrian composer
- Frederick Schmidt, British actor
- Frederick D. Schmidt, American politician
- Frederick W. Schmidt, American theologian and Episcopal priest
- Friedrich August Schmidt (lexicographer), German clergyman, bibliographer and lexicographer
- Friedrich August Schmidt (engraver), German engraver, lithographer and painter
- Friedrich August Schmidt (painter), German painter and lithographer
- Friedrich August von Schmidt, German judge and jurist
- Frithjof Schmidt, German politician
- Fritz Schmidt, multiple people
- Gabriele Schmidt, German politician
- Gavin Schmidt, Climatologist
- Georg Schmidt, multiple people
- George Schmidt, American football player
- Gerhard Schmidt (art historian), professor of the history of art
- Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer), organic chemist and chemical crystallographer
- Gerhard Carl Schmidt, German chemist
- Grant Schmidt, Canadian politician
- Gunter Schmidt, German sexologist
- Günter Schmidt (arachnologist)
- Gunther Schmidt, German mathematician
H–L
- Hans Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Hans Christian Schmidt, Danish politician
- Hans-Dieter Schmidt, German footballer
- Hansjörg Schmidt, German politician
- Hans-Thilo Schmidt, German spy for France in the 1930s
- Harald Schmidt, German television entertainer
- Harry Schmidt (Air National Guard), US Air National Guard pilot
- Harry Schmidt (USMC), US Marine Corps general
- Harv Schmidt, American baseball player
- Harvey Schmidt, American composer
- Heide Schmidt, Austrian politician
- Heinrich Schmidt (footballer), German footballer
- Heinrich Schmidt (philosopher), German archivist, naturalist, philosopher, professor and disciple of Ernst Haeckel
- Heinrich Schmidt (physician), medic at Majdanek extermination camp
- Heinrich Schmidt (politician), NSDAP politician
- Heinrich Julian Schmidt, German journalist
- Helga Schmidt-Neuber, German swimmer
- Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish Prime Minister
- Helmut Schmidt, German chancellor
- Helmut Schmidt (footballer), German football player
- Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist), German parapsychologist
- Herbert B. Schmidt, German economist
- Howard A. Schmidt, American computer security specialist
- Ingrid Schmidt, German backstroke swimmer
- Irmin Schmidt, German rock keyboard player
- Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Dutch/Russian linguist and academician
- Jan Schmidt (director), Czech film director
- Jan Wenzel Schmidt, German politician
- Jacques Schmidt, French costume designer
- Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
- Jean Schmidt, American politician
- Jean Dolores Schmidt, American nun better known as Sister Jean
- Jessica Schmidt, German chess grandmaster
- Jeffrey Schmidt (racing driver), Swiss racing driver
- Jimmy Schmidt, Uruguayan footballer
- Joan Schmidt, Australien cricket player
- João Schmidt, Brazilian footballer
- Joe Schmidt (American football), American football player
- Joe Schmidt (soccer), American soccer player
- Johann Anton Schmidt, German botanist
- Johann Kaspar Schmidt, German philosopher known as Max Stirner
- Johannes Schmidt (biologist), Danish biologist
- Johannes Schmidt (linguist), German linguist
- John Schmidt, American lawyer and politician
- Joost Schmidt, teacher at the Bauhaus
- Jordan Schmidt, American music producer
- Josef Schmidt (rugby union), New Zealand rugby union coach
- Josef Friedrich Schmidt, German board game inventor
- Joseph Schmidt, singer, actor
- Joseph Hermann Schmidt, professor of Obstetrics in Berlin
- Joshua Schmidt, American Army Iraq War Veteran
- Józef Szmidt, Polish Olympic athlete
- Julian Schmidt (politician), German politician
- Julius Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Justin O. Schmidt, creator of the index of insect sting pain
- Jürgen Schmidt, German speed skater
- Karl August von Schmidt, German geophysicist
- Karl Patterson Schmidt, Chief Curator of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter
- Kate Schmidt, American javelin thrower
- Katrin Schmidt, German-Swedish football player
- Katrin Schmidt (badminton), German badminton player
- Katherine Schmidt, American artist
- Kendall Schmidt, American actor, singer
- Klaus Schmidt, multiple people
- Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński, Polish collector and art connoisseur, who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków
- Kurt Schmidt, German Lieutenant-General during the Second World War
- Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, American TV producer and screenwriter
- Leni Schmidt, German athlete
- Lissy Schmidt, German journalist
- Luís Eduardo Schmidt, Brazilian football player
- Lukas Schmidt, German badminton player
M–Z
- Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-American astronomer
- Mae Doelling Schmidt, American pianist
- Manuela Schmidt, German politician
- Mária Schmidt, Hungarian historian
- Marie Schmidt, German political activist and politician
- Markus Schmidt, multiple people
- Martin Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian painter
- Matthew Schmidt, American film editor
- Max Schmidt, German painter
- , commandant Fürstengrube subcamp of Auschwitz, March 1944 – January 1945
- Melissa Schmidt, American politician
- Micaela Schmidt, German rower
- Michael Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mike Schmidt, American baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Mike Schmidt (lawyer), American lawyer and politician
- Milt Schmidt, Canadian hockey player
- Monika Schmidt, Australian judge
- Nate Schmidt, American ice hockey player
- Noémie Schmidt, Swiss actress
- Olaf Schmidt, German glider aerobatic pilot
- , Danish conductor and composer
- Oliver Schmidt, multiple people
- Olle Schmidt, Swedish politician
- Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
- Otto Schmidt, Soviet scientist
- Otto Schmidt (aviator), German flying ace
- Pascal Schmidt, German footballer
- Patrick Schmidt, multiple people
- Paul Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Peter Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Petra Schmidt, German soprano
- Pyotr Schmidt, New Zealand trampolinist
- Rainer Schmidt, multiple people
- Renate Schmidt, German Federal Minister for family affairs
- Rob Schmidt, American film director and writer
- Rodger Gustaf Schmidt, Canadian–German curler
- Roman Schmidt, Austro-Hungarian flying ace
- Roman Schmidt (Ukrainian politician), Ukrainian zoologist and politician
- Sebastian Schmidt, German politician
- Sebestyén Schmidt, Hungarian cyclist
- Signe Torborg Schmidt-Nielsen, Swedish-Norwegian physicist and nutritionist
- Sigrid Schmidt, German ethnologist and folklorist
- Sophie Schmidt, Canadian soccer player
- Sophie Schmidt (publisher), American publisher
- Stefan Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Steve Schmidt, American campaign strategist and public relations expert for the U.S. Republican Party
- Susan Schmidt, American investigative reporter
- Thomas Schmidt (footballer)
- Tim Schmidt, Australian rules footballer
- Tony Schmidt, German racing driver
- Torge Schmidt, German politician
- Torsten Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Trudeliese Schmidt, German opera singer
- Ulla Schmidt, German Federal Minister for health
- Ulrich Schmidt, German serial killer and rapist
- Uwe Schmidt, German politician
- Vasili Schmidt, Soviet politician and statesman
- Vera Schmidt, Hungarian singer-songwriter
- Victoria Schmidt, New Zealand actress
- Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff, German art historian and professor
- Vivien A. Schmidt, political science academic
- Walter Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Wayne Schmidt, American politician
- Wilhelm Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- William Schmidt (disambiguation), multiple people
- Wilma Schmidt, German operatic soprano
- Wolfgang M. Schmidt, mathematician
- Yuri Schmidt, Russian human rights lawyer
- Zygmunt Schmidt, Polish footballer
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, the security guard protagonist of the first Five Nights at Freddy's game and in the Five Nights at Freddy's film 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
- Dr Klaus Schmidt, aka Sebastion Shaw leader of the Hellfire Club in the film X-Men: First Class.