Schmidt is a common German occupational surname derived from the German word "

Schmied Schmied is a surname of German origin. Its meaning is derived from the German word Schmied, which is a smith (of tin, gold, silver, or other metal). Common variants are Schmidt, Schmitt, and Schmitz. People * Wieland der Schmied (libretto), ''W ...

" meaning "blacksmith" and/or "metalworker". This surname is the German equivalent of "

Smith Smith may refer to: People * Metalsmith, or simply smith, a craftsman fashioning tools or works of art out of various metals * Smith (given name) * Smith (surname), a family name originating in England, Scotland and Ireland ** List of people wi ...

" in the English-speaking world. Schmidt German immigrants migrated to England and developed an understanding of English culture. Schmidt was commonly used in the English world as "Smith". Travelers would grow accustomed to the English, Irish, and Scottish change of lifestyle and eventually their names also changed. German migration to England was very common.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname ''Schmidt'' were residents of

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

(frequency 1:113), 18.2% of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

(1:1,809), 3.7% of

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

(1:5,058), 1.7% of

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

(1:1,936), 1.5% of

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

(1:503), 1.3% of

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

(1:398), 1.1% of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

(1:4,469), 1.1% of

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

(1:3,635) and 1.0% of

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

(1:6,167). In

, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:113) in the following states: * 1.

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

(1:60) * 2.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

(1:65) * 3.

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

(1:66) * 4.

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

(1:70) * 5.

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

(1:84) * 6.

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

(1:87) * 7.

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

(1:92) * 8.

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...

(1:95) * 9.

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

(1:110) * 10.

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

(1:112) In

, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:398) only in one region:Schmidt surname distribution
/ref> * 1.

Southern Denmark The Region of Southern Denmark ( da, Region Syddanmark, ; german: Region Süddänemark, ; frr, Regiuun Syddanmark) is an administrative Regions of Denmark, region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Munici ...

(1:215)

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Alexander Schmidt (physiologist) Hermann Adolf Alexander Schmidt ( – ) was a Baltic German physiologist from what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire. He was born on the island of Moon, which is today known by its Estonian name Muhu, in present-day Eston ...

(1831–1894), Baltic German physiologist *

Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter) Alfred Schmidt (from 1936 Ain Sillak, 1 May 1898 – 5 November 1972) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland acros ...

(1898–1972), Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist *

Alica Schmidt Alica Schmidt (; born 8 November 1998) is a German runner. She was part of the national team that came second in the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships, and third in the same discipline at the 2019 Europ ...

(born 1998), German runner *

Andreas Schmidt (baritone) Andreas Schmidt (born 30 June 1960 in Düsseldorf) is a German classical bass-baritone in opera and concert. Career Andreas Schmidt studied church music with his father Hartmut Schmidt and singing with Ingeborg Reichelt and Dietrich Fischer- ...

, born 1960, German classical singer *

Andreas Schmidt (footballer) Andreas Schmidt (born 14 September 1973 in Berlin) is a German former professional footballer who spent his entire career with Hertha BSC. His twin brother, Oliver, also played for Hertha. Honours Hertha Berlin *DFL-Ligapokal: 2002 File:2002 ...

, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Oliver Schmidt * Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995), Dutch writer *

Arlo Schmidt Arlo E. Schmidt (September 6, 1931 – November 30, 2022) was a North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, representing the 7th district from 1995 to 2010. Schmidt served in the United States Army ...

(1931-2022), American politician and auctioneer *

Arno Schmidt Arno Schmidt (; 18 January 1914 – 3 June 1979) was a German author and translator. He is little known outside of German-speaking areas, in part because his works present a formidable challenge to translators. Although he is not one of the p ...

(1914–1979), German author and translator *

Arthur Schmidt (disambiguation) Arthur Schmidt may refer to: *Arthur Schmidt (film editor) (1937–2023), American film editor * Arthur Schmidt (general) (1895–1987), German World War II general * Arthur P. Schmidt (1912–1965), American film editor *Arthur P. Schmidt (music p ...

Bernhard Schmidt Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (, Naissaar, Nargen – 1 December 1935, Hamburg) was an Estonian optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt camera, Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatis ...

(1879–1935), Estonian-German astronomer, inventor of the Schmidt camera *

Bill Schmidt (baseball) Bill Schmidt is an American baseball executive. Born August 1959. He is the general manager of the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball. Schmidt served as a scout for the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, and the Major Lea ...

(born 1959), American baseball executive *

Boss Schmidt Charles "Boss" Schmidt (September 12, 1880 – November 14, 1932) was an American baseball catcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB) A native of Arkansas, Schmidt played professional baseball from 1901 to 1926, including six ...

(1880–1932), American major league catcher *

Brian Schmidt Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mo ...

(born 1967), U.S.-Australian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate *

Brian L. Schmidt Brian L. Schmidt is a music composer for various video games and pinball machines. Biography He began in the video game music and sound industry in 1987 as a composer/sound designer and programmer for Williams Electronic Games in Chicago wr ...

(born 1962), music composer for video games and pinball games *

Bryan Schmidt Bryan Schmidt (born July 27, 1981) is an American professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for Nottingham Panthers of the EIHL. Awards and honors *Regular season MVP, Merrimack College Merrimack College is a private August ...

(born 1981), an American ice hockey player *

Bryan Schmidt (footballer) Bryan Carlos Schmidt (born 19 November 1995) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Villa San Carlos. Career Schmidt started in the youth of Argentine Primera División club Arsenal de Sarandí. He first featured ...

(born 1995), an Argentine footballer *

Bryan Thomas Schmidt Bryan Thomas Schmidt (born February 13, 1969) is an American science fiction author and editor. He has edited (or co-edited) fifteen anthologies, a space opera trilogy, and an ongoing, near-future police procedural series set in Kansas City, Miss ...

(born 1969), American writer and editor * Burghart Schmidt (historian) (born 1962), German historian *

Burghart Schmidt Burghart Schmidt (30 November 1942 – 13 February 2022) was a German Philosophy, philosopher. He was professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Education He was born in Wildeshausen, Free State o ...

(1942–2022), German philosopher *

Carl Schmidt (chemist) Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt ( – ), also known in Russia as Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt (russian: Карл Ге́нрихович Шмидт, translit=Karl Génrichovič Šmidt), was a Baltic German Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten ...

(1822–1894), Baltic German chemist * Carl Friedrich Schmidt (disambiguation) * Carmela Schmidt (born 1962), East German freestyle swimmer *

Carolina Schmidt María Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar (born 9 September 1967) is a Chilean politician and businesswoman who is the current Minister of the Environment. She also served as the Minister of Education from April 2013 to March 2014. Education and early ...

(born 1967), Chilean politician and businesswoman *

Casper Schmidt Casper Schmidt (December 10, 1842 – May 23, 1889) was an American miller and politician. Born in what is now Germany, Schmidt emigrated to the United States in 1856 and settled in the town of Nekimi, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. He served ...

(1842–1889), American politician * Charles J. Schmidt (1907–1966), American politician * Christian Schmidt (born 1957), German politician *

Clarke Schmidt Clarke D. Schmidt (born February 20, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Yankees selected Schmidt in the first round, with the 16th overall selection, of the 2017 MLB dra ...

(born 1996), American baseball player *

Colton Schmidt Colton Schmidt (born October 27, 1990) is an American football punter who is a free agent. He entered the National Football League (NFL) in 2013 when he signed with the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2013. He played for the B ...

(born 1990), American football player *

Dagmar Schmidt Dagmar Schmidt (born 13 March 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2013. Early life and education Schmidt was born in Gießen to polit ...

(born 1973), German politician * David Schmidt (disambiguation), several people * Diane Grob Schmidt, American chemist * Earl W. Schmidt (born 1936), American jurist and politician *

Eduard Oscar Schmidt Eduard Oscar Schmidt (21 February 1823, in Torgau – 17 January 1886, in Kappelrodeck) was a German zoologist and phycologist. Biography He initially studied mathematics and science at Halle, then continued his education in Berlin, where he ...

(1823–1886), German zoologist and phycologist *

Erhard Schmidt Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. Schmidt was born in Tartu (german: link=no, Dorpat), in the Govern ...

(1876–1959), German mathematician *

Eric Schmidt Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 20 ...

(born 1955), executive chairman, former CEO, of Google *

Erich Schmidt (archaeologist) Erich Friedrich Schmidt (September 13, 1897 – October 3, 1964) was a German and American-naturalized archaeologist, born in Baden-Baden. He specialized in Ancient Near East Archaeology, and became professor emeritus at the Oriental Institute o ...

(1897–1964), German archaeologist *

Erich Schmidt (historian) Erich Schmidt (20 June 1853, in Jena – 29 April 1913, in Berlin) was a German historian of literature. Biography He was the son of a zoologist Oskar Schmidt. He studied Germanic philology and literary history at Graz, Jena, and Strassburg, es ...

(1853–1913) German historian of literature * Ferenc Schmidt (1941–2011), Hungarian politician and MP *

Firmin Martin Schmidt Firmin Martin Schmidt (October 12, 1918 - August 4, 2005) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in Catharine, Kansas, United States, Schmidt was ordained a priest for the Capuchin order on June 2, 1946. On April 3, 1959, he was appointed prefect of Men ...

(1918–2005), American Roman Catholic bishop *

Francis Schmidt Francis Albert Schmidt (December 3, 1885 – September 19, 1944) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Tulsa (1919–1921), the University of Arka ...

(1885–1944), American college baseball coach *

Franklin J. W. Schmidt Franklin James White Schmidt (July 25, 1901, in Lake Forest, Illinois – August 7, 1935, in Stanley, Wisconsin) was an American naturalist, noted as one of the first practitioners of the field of "wildlife management". Hired by Wisconsin, Schmidt' ...

(1901–1935), American naturalist, brother of Karl Patterson *

Franz Schmidt (composer) Franz Schmidt, also Ferenc Schmidt (22 December 1874 – 11 February 1939) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian composer, cellist and pianist.Franz Schmidt (1874–1939) and Dohnányi Ernö (1877–1960): A study in Austro-Hungarian Alternat ...

(1874–1939), Austrian composer * Frithjof Schmidt (born 1953), German politician * Fritz Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Gavin Schmidt Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the award-winning climate science blog RealClimate. Work He was educated at The Corsham Schoo ...

, Climatologist *

Gerhard Schmidt (crystallographer) Gerhard Martin Julius Schmidt (born, 21 August 1919 in Berlin – died July 12, 1971 in Zurich, buried in Rehovot), organic chemist and chemical crystallographer, Dean of the Chemistry Faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and its scientif ...

(1919–1971), organic chemist and chemical crystallographer *

Gerhard Carl Schmidt Gerhard Carl Schmidt (5 July 1865 – 16 October 1949) was a German chemist. Life Schmidt was born in London to German parents. He studied chemistry and in 1890 received his PhD for work with Georg Wilhelm August Kahlbaum. In 1898, two months ...

(1865–1949), German chemist *

Gerhard Schmidt (art historian) Gerhard Schmidt (11 May 1924 - 3 April 2010) was professor of the history of art at the University of Vienna. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research univer ...

(1924–2010), professor of the history of art *

Gunther Schmidt Gunther Schmidt (born 1939, Rüdersdorf) is a German mathematician who works also in informatics. Life Schmidt began studying Mathematics in 1957 at Göttingen University. His academic teachers were in particular Kurt Reidemeister, Wilhelm K ...

(born 1939), German mathematician *

Gunter Schmidt Gunter Schmidt (born 22 November 1938) is a German sexologist, psychotherapist and social psychologist. He was born in Berlin. Schmidt was the director of the centre for sexual research in the clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppe ...

(born 1938), German sexologist *

Günter Schmidt (arachnologist) ''For the sexologist, psychotherapist, and social psychologist, see Gunter Schmidt.'' Günter E. W. Schmidt (born 10 May 1926 in Lübeck; died 23 December 2016 in Deutsch Evern) was a German arachnologist and author of a standard German work on ...

(1926–2016)

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Hans Christian Schmidt Hans Christian Schmidt (born 25 August 1953 in Nustrup) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He is a teacher by profession, and has served as Denmark's Minister of Transport from 2010 to 201 ...

(born 1953), Danish politician * Hans Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Hans-Thilo Schmidt Hans-Thilo Schmidt (13 May 1888 – 19 September 1943) codenamed Asché or Source D, was a spy who, during the 1930s, sold secrets about the Germans' Enigma machine to the French. The materials he provided facilitated Polish mathematician Maria ...

(1888–1943), German spy for France in the 1930s *

Harald Schmidt Harald Franz Schmidt (born 18 August 1957) is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows. Early and private life A son of refugees who fled from Sudetenland (now C ...

(born 1957), German television entertainer *

Harry Schmidt (Air National Guard) The Tarnak Farm incident refers to the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the n ...

, US Air National Guard pilot *

Harry Schmidt (USMC) Harry Schmidt (September 25, 1886 – February 10, 1968) was a United States Marine Corps general. During World War II, he served as the commanding general of the Fourth Marine Division during the battles of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands a ...

(1886–1968), US Marine Corps general *

Harvey Schmidt Harvey Lester Schmidt (September 12, 1929 – February 28, 2018) was an American composer for musical theatre and illustrator. He was best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, ''The Fantasticks'', which ran off ...

(1929–2018), American composer *

Heide Schmidt Heide Schmidt (born 27 November 1948 in Kempten im Allgäu, Germany) is an Austrian politician. A lawyer and formerly a prominent member of Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), in 1993 Schmidt was one of a group of politicians who, bec ...

(born 1948), Austrian politician * Heinrich Schmidt (philosopher) (1874-1935), German archivist, naturalist, philosopher, professor and disciple of Ernst Haeckel * Heinrich Schmidt (politician) (1902–1960), NSDAP politician *

Heinrich Schmidt (physician) Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (27 March 1912 – 28 November 2000) was a Germans, German physician and member of the Schutzstaffel, SS, who practised Nazism, Nazi medicine in a variety of Nazi concentration camps, German concentration camps during Worl ...

(1912–2000), medic at Majdanek extermination camp * Heinrich Julian Schmidt (1818–1886), German journalist * Heinrich Schmidt (footballer) (1912–1988), German footballer *

Helle Thorning-Schmidt Helle Thorning-Schmidt (; born 14 December 1966) is a Danish retired politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015. She is the first woman to have held each p ...

(born 1966), Danish Prime Minister * Helmut Schmidt (footballer) (born 1949), German football player * Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist), German parapsychologist *

Helmut Schmidt Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Before becoming Cha ...

(1918–2015), German chancellor * Herbert B. Schmidt (born 1931), German economist * Howard A. Schmidt (1949–2017), American computer security specialist *

Irmin Schmidt Irmin Schmidt (born 29 May 1937) is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the band Can (band), Can. Biography Schmidt was born in Berlin, Germany, began his studies in music at the conservatorium in Dortmund, at t ...

(born 1937), German rock keyboard player *

Isaac Jacob Schmidt Isaac Jacob Schmidt (October 4, 1779 – August 27, 1847) was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labours to Bible translation. Born in Amsterdam, he s ...

(1779–1847), Dutch/Russian linguist and academician *

Jan Schmidt (director) Jan Schmidt (3 January 1934 – 27 September 2019) was a Czech film director.

, Czech film director *

Jacques Schmidt Jacques Schmidt (16 March 1933 – 8 September 1996) was a French costume designer, who collaborated regularly with stage directors Antoine Bourseiller, Patrice Chéreau and Roger Planchon. Early life and education Schmidt was born in Bri ...

(1933–1996), French costume designer *

Jason Schmidt Jason David Schmidt (born January 29, 1973), is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. In his career, he has played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (2007–2009), San Francisco Giants (2001–06), Pittsburgh Pirates (1996–2001) and Atla ...

(born 1973), American baseball player *

Jean Schmidt Jeannette Mary Schmidt (née Hoffman; born November 29, 1951) is an American politician who is a state representative in Ohio's 65th district. She was a U.S. Representative for , serving from 2005 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Part ...

(born 1951), American politician * Jean Dolores Schmidt (born 1919), American nun better known as

Sister Jean Sister Jean, BVM (born Jean Dolores Schmidt, August 21, 1919), is an American religious sister of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team of Loyola University Chicago. Earl ...

* Jessica Schmidt (born 1979), German chess grandmaster *

Joe Schmidt (American football) Joseph Paul Schmidt (born January 19, 1932) is an American former professional football player and coach. Schmidt played professional linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions for 13 years from 1953 to 1965. He wo ...

(born 1932), American football player * Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1806–1856), German philosopher known as Max Stirner * Johann Anton Schmidt (1823–1905), German botanist *

Josef Schmidt (rugby union) Josef Schmidt HonFRCSI (born 12 September 1965) is a New Zealand and Irish rugby union coach, who is the attack coach for the New Zealand national team. Schmidt coached Bay of Plenty, and was an assistant coach with the Blues and Clermont Au ...

(born 1965), New Zealand rugby union coach *

Johannes Schmidt (biologist) Ernst Johannes Schmidt (2 January 1877 – 21 February 1933) was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that European eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. Before this people in North America and Europe had wondered where the sm ...

(1877–1933), Danish biologist *

Johannes Schmidt (linguist) Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt (July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist. He developed the ''Wellentheorie'' (' wave theory') of language development. Biography Schmidt was born in Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg. He was educ ...

(1843–1901), German linguist *

Joost Schmidt Joost Schmidt (Wunstorf, 5 January 1893 - Nürnberg, 2 December 1948) was a German typographer, a teacher or master at the Bauhaus, and later a professor at the College of Visual Arts, Berlin. He was a visionary typographer and graphic designer w ...

(1893–1948), teacher at the Bauhaus *

Jordan Schmidt Jordan Schmidt (born February 26, 1988) is a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum songwriter and music producer. He has co-written, engineered or produced songs for Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, blackbear, Dan + Shay, Ke ...

(born 1989), American music producer *

Josef Friedrich Schmidt Josef Friedrich Schmidt (24 November 1871 – 28 September 1948) was a German board game inventor. Schmidt was the inventor of board game Mensch ärgere Dich nicht. He invented the game in 1907/1908. See also * Schmidt Spiele Schmidt Spiele ...

(1871–1948), German board game inventor *

Joseph Hermann Schmidt Joseph Hermann Schmidt (14 June 1804 – 15 May 1852) was professor of obstetrics in Berlin, and official of the Prussian cultural ministry. Biography He was born in 1804. In 1834 he became head of the Paderborn general hospital and eventually ...

(1804–1852), professor of Obstetrics in Berlin *

Joseph Schmidt Joseph Schmidt (4 March 1904 – 16 November 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish tenor and actor. Life and career Schmidt was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: '' Davydivka'') village in the Storozhynets district of the Bukovina ...

(1904–1942), singer, actor * Julius Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Justin O. Schmidt Justin Orvel Schmidt (born March 23, 1947) is an American entomologist, co-author of ''Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators'', author of ''The Sting of the Wild'', and creator of the Schmidt sting pain inde ...

(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 Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist. Family Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl ...

(1890–1957), Chief Curator of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History *

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Karl Schmidt until 1905; 1 December 1884 – 10 August 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke. Life and work Schmidt-Rottluff was born in ...

(1884–1976), German painter * Katherine Schmidt (1899–1978), American artist *

Kendall Schmidt Kendall Francis Schmidt (born November 2, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, music producer, and actor. He played Kendall Knight in ''Big Time Rush'', and is a current member of the boyband with the same name, and has had small rol ...

(born 1990), American actor, singer *

Kurt Schmidt Kurt Schmidt (April 9, 1891 – March 3, 1945) was a German Generalleutnant during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It in ...

(1891–1945), German Lieutenant-General during the Second World War *

Luís Eduardo Schmidt Luís Eduardo Schmidt (born 10 January 1979), commonly known as Edu, is a Brazilian retired footballer. A versatile midfielder and forward, he played most of his professional career in Spain – helping both Celta and Betis to their first-ever ...

(born 1979), Brazilian football player

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Maarten Schmidt Maarten Schmidt (28 December 1929 – 17 September 2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars. He was the first astronomer to identify a quasar, and so was pictured on the March cover of ''Time'' mag ...

(1929–2022), Dutch-American astronomer *

Martin Johann Schmidt Martin Johann Schmidt, called ''Kremser Schmidt'' or ''Kremserschmidt'', (25 September 1718 – 28 June 1801), was one of the outstanding Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo along with Franz Anton Maulbertsch. He was born at Grafenwör ...

(1718–1801), also called ''Kremser Schmidt'' ''Kremserschmidt'', Austrian painter * Max Schmidt (1818–1901), German painter * (1920–2002), commandant

Fürstengrube subcamp The Fürstengrube subcamp was organized in the summer of 1943 at the Fürstengrube hard coal mine in the town of Wesoła (Wessolla) near Myslowice (Myslowitz), approximately from Auschwitz concentration camp. The mine, which IG Farbenindustrie ...

of Auschwitz, March 1944 – January 1945 * Michael Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Mike Schmidt Michael Jack Schmidt (born September 27, 1949) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played his entire 18-season career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies. Schmidt was a 12-time All-Star and a ...

(born 1949), American baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies *

Milt Schmidt Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals which reproduce by spraying this fluid, which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs). It can also refer to the sperm sacs or testes that contain the semen. ...

(1918–2017), Canadian hockey player *

Monika Schmidt Monika Schmidt was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 2009 until 2019, appointed to the Common Law Division, having previously been a judge of the Industrial Court of New South Wales for 16 years. Early life and education Sc ...

, Australian judge *

Nate Schmidt Nathan Thomas Schmidt (born July 16, 1991) is an American professional ice hockey player for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Washington Capitals, Vegas Golden Knights and Vancouver Canucks. As ...

(born 1991), American ice hockey player *

Noémie Schmidt Noémie Schmidt (born 18 November 1990) is a Swiss actress, most notable for her television and film work, including Henrietta of England in ''Versailles'' (2015–2017). Her role in '' The Student and Mister Henri'' (2015) won her the Prix Premie ...

(born 1990), Swiss actress * Olaf Schmidt (born 1962), German glider aerobatic pilot * (19282010), Danish conductor and composer * Oliver Schmidt, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Andreas Schmidt (above) * Olle Schmidt (born 1949), Swedish politician *

Oscar Schmidt Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt (born February 16, 1958) is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player. He is also commonly known as Oscar Schmidt in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons, ...

(born 1958), Brazilian basketball player *

Otto Schmidt Otto Yulyevich Shmidt, be, Ота Юльевіч Шміт, Ota Juljevič Šmit (born Otto Friedrich Julius Schmidt; – 7 September 1956), better known as Otto Schmidt, was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesm ...

(1891–1956), Soviet scientist *

Otto Schmidt (aviator) Doctor ''Oberleutnant'' Otto Schmidt HOH, IC (23 March 1885 – 24 July 1944) was a German World War I fighter ace credited with 20 aerial victories, including eight against enemy observation balloons. He commanded three different '' jagdstaffeln ...

(1885-1944), German

flying ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...

* Paul Schmidt (disambiguation) * Peter Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Petra Schmidt Petra Schmidt (born 18 March 1963) is a German operatic soprano and academic. A member of the Musiktheater im Revier (MiR), she has appeared in title roles such as Dvořák's Rusalka and Ponchielli's La Gioconda. She has also worked as a voice ...

(born 1963), German soprano *

Pyotr Schmidt Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt (russian: Пётр Петрович Шмидт; – ) was one of the leaders of the Sevastopol Uprising during the Russian Revolution of 1905. Early years Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt was born in 1867 in Odessa, Russian E ...

(1867–1906, Russian revolutionary of 1905 *

Renate Schmidt Schmidt in 2014 Renate Schmidt (' Pokorny; born 12 December 1943 in Hanau) is a German Social Democratic politician. Early life Schmidt grew up in Coburg, Fürth, and Nuremberg. Due to a pregnancy at the age of 17, she was forced to leave scho ...

(born 1943), German Federal Minister for family affairs *

Rob Schmidt Rob Schmidt Barracano (born September 25, 1965) is an American filmmaker. His film credits include '' Wrong Turn'' and ''Crime and Punishment in Suburbia''. He also created a pilot called American Town for Twentieth Century Fox. He directed a ...

(born 1965), American film director and writer *

Sophie Schmidt Sophie Diana Schmidt (born 28 June 1988) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Women's Soccer League club Houston Dash and the Canadian national team, with whom she won an Olympic gold medal in 2020 ...

, Canadian soccer player * Stefan Schmidt (born 1981), German politician *

Steve Schmidt Stephen Edward Schmidt (born September 28, 1970) is an American communications and public affairs strategist who worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, ...

, American campaign strategist and public relations expert for the U.S. Republican Party * Thomas Schmidt (footballer) *

Tim Schmidt Tim Schmidt (born 14 March 1986) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. Originally from South Australian National Football League club West Adelaide Football Club, West Adelai ...

(born 1986), Australian rules footballer *

Tony Schmidt Tony Schmidt (born 9 May 1980 in Leipzig) is a German racing driver. Career Formula Three Schmidt competed in German Formula Three from 1999 to 2001, establishing himself as a midfield runner. He also scored three podium finishes during these s ...

(born 1980), German racing driver *

Torge Schmidt Hendrik Torge Schmidt (born 30 July 1988) is a former German politician. He was a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 2012 to 2017, and leader of the Pirate Party faction from May 2013 to April 2016. Early life Schmidt was born in ...

(born 1988), German politician * Torsten Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Ulla Schmidt Ursula "Ulla" Schmidt (born 13 June 1949) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 2001 to 2009 she was Federal Minister of Health in the German Government. Between 2013 and 2017, she served as Vice-President ...

(born 1949), German Federal Minister for health *

Uwe Schmidt Uwe H. Schmidt (born 27 August 1968), also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel, and aciton musi ...

(born 1966), German politician *

Vasili Schmidt Vasily Vladimirovich Schmidt (Russian: Василий Владимирович Шмидт; December 17, 1886 – July 28, 1938) was a Bolshevik politician, and later a Soviet statesman. Born in Saint Petersburg to a German Russian working-class f ...

(1886–1938), Soviet politician and statesman *

Vera Schmidt ''Veronika "Vera" Schmidt'' (4 May 1982) is a Hungarian pop singer-songwriter who rose to popularity after finishing fifth in the Hungarian version of Pop Idol Megasztár. She is a student in Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Biograph ...

(born 1982), Hungarian singer-songwriter * Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (1944–2013), German art historian and professor * Walter Schmidt (disambiguation) *

Wilhelm Schmidt (disambiguation) Wilhelm Schmidt may refer to: * Wilhelm Schmidt (historian) (1817–1901), Austrian-Moravian historian who has written on Romanian culture *Wilhelm Schmidt (engineer) (1858–1924), German engineer and inventor, nicknamed ''Hot Steam Schmidt'' due ...

William Schmidt (disambiguation) William Schmidt may refer to: * William Schmidt (composer) (1926–2009), American composer of classical music * William A. Schmidt (1902–1992), Wisconsin state senator * William "Burro" H. Schmidt (1871–1954), builder of the Burro Schmidt Tu ...

Wilma Schmidt Wilma Schmidt (27 June 1926 – 18 June 2022), also known as Wilma Schmidt-Liebethal, was a German operatic soprano. She performed for five decades in leading roles at the Staatsoper Hannover, and appeared as a guest at other opera houses and t ...

(1926–2022), German operatic soprano *

Wolfgang M. Schmidt Wolfgang M. Schmidt (born 3 October 1933) is an Austrian mathematician working in the area of number theory. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD, which was supervised by Edmund Hlawka, in 1955. Wolfgang ...

(born 1933), mathematician

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