Schmidt (surname)
Schmidt is a common German occupational surname derived from the German word "" meaning "blacksmith" and/or "metalworker". This surname is the German equivalent of "Smith" in the English-speaking world.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname Schmidt were residents of Germany, 18.2% of the United States, 3.7% of Brazil, 1.7% of Canada, 1.5% of Austria, 1.3% of Denmark, 1.1% of South Africa, 1.1% of Argentina and 1.0% of France.In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states:
- 1. Thuringia
- 2. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 3. Saxony-Anhalt
- 4. Brandenburg
- 5. Hesse
- 6. Saarland
- 7. Saxony
- 8. Schleswig-Holstein
- 9. Lower Saxony
- 10. Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1. Southern Denmark
A–G
- Alexander Schmidt , Baltic German physiologist
- Alfred Schmidt , Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist
- Andreas Schmidt, born 1960, German classical singer
- Andreas Schmidt, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Oliver Schmidt
- Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer
- Arno Schmidt , German author and translator
- Arthur Schmidt
- Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German astronomer, inventor of the Schmidt camera
- 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
- Bryan Schmidt, an American ice hockey player
- Bryan Schmidt , an Argentine footballer
- Burghart Schmidt , German historian
- Burghart Schmidt born 1942, German philosopher
- Carl Schmidt , Baltic German chemist
- Carl Friedrich Schmidt
- Carmela Schmidt, East German freestyle swimmer
- Carolina Schmidt, Chilean politician and businesswoman
- Casper Schmidt, American politician
- Charles C. Schmidt, American politician
- Colton Schmidt, American football player
- David Schmidt, several people
- Diane Grob Schmidt, American chemist
- Earl W. Schmidt, American jurist and politician
- Eduard Oscar Schmidt, German zoologist and phycologist
- Erhard Schmidt, German mathematician
- Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, former CEO, of Google
- Erich Schmidt , German archaeologist
- Erich Schmidt German historian of literature
- 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, Austrian composer
- Frithjof Schmidt, German politician
- Fritz Schmidt
- Gavin Schmidt, Climatologist
- Gerhard Schmidt , organic chemist and chemical crystallographer
- Gerhard Carl Schmidt, German chemist
- Gerhard Schmidt , professor of the history of art
- Gunther Schmidt, German mathematician
- Gunter Schmidt, German sexologist
- Günter Schmidt
H–L
- Hans Christian Schmidt, Danish politician
- Hans Schmidt
- Hans-Thilo Schmidt, German spy for France in the 1930s
- Harald Schmidt, German television entertainer
- Harry Schmidt, US Air National Guard pilot
- Harry Schmidt , US Marine Corps general
- Harvey Schmidt, American composer
- Heide Schmidt, Austrian politician
- Heinrich Schmidt , German archivist, naturalist, philosopher, professor and disciple of Ernst Haeckel
- Heinrich Schmidt , NSDAP politician
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schmidt , medic at Majdanek extermination camp
- Heinrich Julian Schmidt, German journalist
- Heinrich Schmidt , German footballer
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish Prime Minister
- Helmut Schmidt , German football player
- Helmut Schmidt, German parapsychologist
- Helmut Schmidt, German chancellor
- Henry C. Schmidt, American historian
- Herbert B. Schmidt, German economist
- Howard A. Schmidt, American computer security specialist
- Irmin Schmidt, German rock keyboard player
- Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Dutch/Russian linguist and academician
- Jan Schmidt, Czech film director
- Jacques Schmidt, French costume designer
- Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
- Jean Schmidt, American politician
- Jean Dolores Schmidt, American nun better known as Sister Jean
- Joe Schmidt, American football player
- Johann Kaspar Schmidt, German philosopher known as Max Stirner
- Johann Anton Schmidt, German botanist
- Joe Schmidt, New Zealand rugby union coach
- Johannes Schmidt , Danish biologist
- Johannes Schmidt , German linguist
- Joost Schmidt, teacher at the Bauhaus
- Jordan Schmidt, American music producer
- Josef Friedrich Schmidt, German board game inventor
- Joseph Hermann Schmidt, professor of Obstetrics in Berlin
- Joseph Schmidt, singer, actor
- Julius Schmidt
- Justin O. Schmidt, creator of the index of insect sting pain.
- Jürgen Schmidt, German speed skater
- Karl Patterson Schmidt, Chief Curator of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter
- Katherine Schmidt, American artist
- Kendall Schmidt, American actor, singer
- Kurt Schmidt, German Lieutenant-General during the Second World War.
- Luís Eduardo Schmidt, Brazilian football player
M–Z
- Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-American astronomer
- Martin Johann Schmidt, also called Kremser Schmidt Kremserschmidt, Austrian painter
- Max Schmidt, German painter
- , commandant Fürstengrube subcamp of Auschwitz, March 1944 – January 1945
- Michael Schmidt
- Mike Schmidt, American baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Milt Schmidt, Canadian hockey player
- Monika Schmidt, Australian judge
- Noémie Schmidt, Swiss actress
- Olaf Schmidt, German glider aerobatic pilot
- , Danish conductor and composer
- Oliver Schmidt, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Andreas Schmidt
- Olle Schmidt, Swedish politician
- Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
- Otto Schmidt, Soviet scientist
- Paul Schmidt
- Peter Schmidt
- Petra Schmidt, German soprano
- Pyotr Schmidt, German Federal Minister for family affairs
- Rob Schmidt, American film director and writer
- Sophie Schmidt, Canadian soccer player
- Steve Schmidt, American campaign strategist and public relations expert for the U.S. Republican Party
- Thomas Schmidt
- Tim Schmidt, Australian rules footballer
- Tony Schmidt, German racing driver
- Torsten Schmidt
- Ulla Schmidt, German Federal Minister for health
- Vasili Schmidt, Soviet politician and statesman
- Vera Schmidt, Hungarian singer-songwriter
- Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff, German art historian and professor
- Walter Schmidt
- Wilhelm Schmidt
- William Schmidt
- Wolfgang M. Schmidt, mathematician