Schmidt (surname)
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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.
- Alexander Schmidt (physiologist)Alexander Schmidt (physiologist)Alexander Schmidt was a Livonian physiologist. He was born on the Island of Mohn, which today is called Muhu, Estonia. In 1858, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Dorpat, and later was an assistant to Felix Hoppe-Seyler in Berlin, and Carl Ludwig in Leipzig...
(1831–1894), Baltic German physiologist - Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter)Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter)Alfred Schmidt was an Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.-References:...
(1898–1972), Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist - Annie M. G. SchmidtAnnie M. G. SchmidtAnna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt was a prolific Dutch writer, especially cherished for her children's books—"the most versatile and most talented children's book author in the Netherlands." She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song and the queen of Dutch children's...
(1911–1995), Dutch writer - Andreas Schmidt (baritone)Andreas Schmidt (baritone)Andreas Schmidt is a German classical bass-baritone in opera and concert.- Professional career :Andreas Schmidt studied church music with his father Hartmut Schmidt and singing with Ingeborg Reichelt and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.His 1984 debut was in the part of Malatesta in Donizetti's Don...
, born 1960, German classical singer - Andreas Schmidt (footballer)Andreas Schmidt (footballer)Andreas Schmidt is a retired German football player who spent his entire career with Hertha BSC. His twin brother, Oliver, also played for Hertha.- External links :**...
, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Oliver Schmidt - Arno SchmidtArno SchmidtArno Schmidt was a German author and translator.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, son of a police constable, Schmidt moved with his widowed mother to Lauban and attended the secondary school in Görlitz. He then worked as a clerk in a textile company in Greiffenberg...
(1914–1979), German author and translator - Arthur Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Bernhard SchmidtBernhard SchmidtBernhard Woldemar Schmidt was a German optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time...
(1879–1935), Estonian-German astronomer, inventor of the Schmidt camera - Brian SchmidtBrian SchmidtBrian L. Schmidt is a music composer for various video games and pinball games. 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 writing music and creating sound effects for pinball machines and coin...
(born 1967), U.S.-Australian astrophysicist and Nobel laureate - Burghart Schmidt (historian)Burghart Schmidt (historian)Burghart Schmidt is a German historian.Vice-President of the University of Montpellier III.-Education:Burghart Schmidt went to school in Bremen...
(born 1962), German historian - Burghart SchmidtBurghart SchmidtBurghart Schmidt is a German philosopher. He is currently professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.-Education:...
born 1942, German philosopher - Carl Schmidt (chemist)Carl Schmidt (chemist)Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt , also known in Russia as Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt was a Livonian chemist. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc. He analyzed muscle fiber...
(1822–1894), Baltic German chemist - Carmela SchmidtCarmela SchmidtCarmela Schmidt is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany.She won two bronze medals at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. Schmidt also won the world title in the 1982 World Aquatics Championships, in the 400 m freestyle.-References:*...
(born 1962), East German freestyle swimmer - Boss SchmidtBoss SchmidtCharles "Boss" Schmidt was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played six seasons with the Detroit Tigers ....
(1880–1932), major league catcher - Erhard SchmidtErhard SchmidtErhard Schmidt was a German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. He was born in Tartu, Governorate of Livonia . His advisor was David Hilbert and he was awarded his doctorate from Georg-August University of Göttingen in 1905...
(1876–1959), German mathematician - Eric E. SchmidtEric E. SchmidtEric Emerson Schmidt is an American software engineer and the current executive chairman of Google. From 2001 to 2011, he served as the chief executive officer of Google....
(born 1955), CEO of Google - Erich Schmidt (historian)Erich Schmidt (historian)Erich Schmidt was a German historian of literature.-Biography:He was the son of Oskar Schmidt. He studied Germanic philology and literary history at Graz, Jena, and Strassburg, established himself as privatdozent at Würzburg in 1875, became professor at Strassburg in 1877, at Vienna in 1880, and...
(1853–1913) German historian of literature - Erich SchmidtErich SchmidtErich Friedrich Schmidt 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 of the University of Chicago.When he was young, he fought in the World War I, and was captured...
(1897–1964), German archaeologist - Franklin J. W. SchmidtFranklin J. W. SchmidtFranklin J. W. Schmidt was an American naturalist, noted as one of the first practitioners of the field of "wildlife management". Hired by Wisconsin, Schmidt's main work was on the prairie grouse, and its habits in the central marshes of Wisconsin. He published one paper on feeding habits of the...
(1901–1935), American naturalist, brother of Karl Patterson - Franz SchmidtFranz SchmidtFranz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.- Life :Schmidt was born in Pozsony , in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . His father was half Hungarian and his mother entirely Hungarian...
(1874–1939), Austrian composer - Friedrich SchmidtFriedrich SchmidtFriedrich Schmidt was Baltic German geologist and botanist in Russian Empire. He won the Wollaston Medal in 1902.- External links :*...
(1832–1908), Baltic German/Russian geologist and botanist - Frithjof SchmidtFrithjof SchmidtFrithjof Schmidt is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.-References:...
(born 1953), German politician - Gavin SchmidtGavin SchmidtGavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist and climate modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. He works on the variability of the ocean circulation and climate, using general circulation models . He has also worked on ways to reconcile paleo-data with models...
, Climatologist - Hans Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Hans Christian SchmidtHans Christian SchmidtHans Christian Schmidt is a danish politician and has been the Minister for transportation. A teacher by profession, he was the Danish Minister of Food from 2004 to 2007. Before that, he was the Minister for the Environment from 2001...
(born 1953), Danish politician - Hans-Thilo SchmidtHans-Thilo SchmidtHans-Thilo Schmidt codenamed Asché or Source D, was a spy who, during the 1930s, sold secrets about the Germans' Enigma machine to the French...
(1888–1943), German spy for France in the 1930s - Harald SchmidtHarald SchmidtHarald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, writer, comedian and television entertainer best known as host of two popular German late-night shows.- Early life :...
(born 1957), German television entertainer - Harry Schmidt (Air National Guard), US Air National Guard pilot
- Harry Schmidt (USMC)Harry Schmidt (USMC)General Harry Schmidt served as Commanding General of the Fourth Marine Division during the Marshall Islands campaign and the Battle of Saipan, and as Commanding General of the Fifth Amphibious Corps during the battles of Tinian and Iwo Jima, during World War II...
(1886–1968), US Marine Corps general - Harvey SchmidtHarvey SchmidtHarvey Lester Schmidt is an American composer for musical theatre. He is best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 - 2002.-Biography:...
(born 1929), American composer - Heide SchmidtHeide SchmidtHeide Schmidt is an Austrian politician.A lawyer and formerly a prominent member of Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party , in 1993 Schmidt was one of a group of politicians who, because of Haider's increasingly right-wing verbal politics, seceded from the FPÖ and founded the Liberal Forum.From...
(born 1948), Austrian politician - Helmut SchmidtHelmut SchmidtHelmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...
(born 1918), German chancellor - Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist)Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist)Helmut Schmidt is a German-born parapsychologist. In the early 1970s he pioneered research into the effects of human consciousness on machines called random number generators or random event generators at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology...
, German parapsychologist - Henry C. SchmidtHenry C. SchmidtHenry Conrad Schmidt is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and a specialist in Latin American, particularly Mexican, studies....
(born 1937), American historian - Herbert B. SchmidtHerbert B. SchmidtHerbert B. Schmidt is a German economist and public policy advisor best known for his work in privatization in the former East Germany and Eastern Europe....
(born 1931), German economist - Howard A. Schmidt, American computer security specialist
- Irmin SchmidtIrmin SchmidtIrmin Schmidt is a German keyboard player and composer, probably best known as a founding member of the band Can.-Biography:...
(born 1937), German rock keyboard player - Isaac Jacob SchmidtIsaac Jacob SchmidtIsaac Jacob Schmidt 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....
(1779–1847), Dutch/Russian linguist and academician - Jason SchmidtJason SchmidtJason David Schmidt , is a former American Major League Baseball pitcher.Schmidt was born in Lewiston, Idaho. In his career he has played for the Los Angeles Dodgers , San Francisco Giants , Pittsburgh Pirates and Atlanta Braves , by whom he had been drafted in the eighth round, 206th overall, of...
(born 1973), American baseball player - Jean SchmidtJean SchmidtJeannette Marie Hoffman Schmidt, is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth....
(born 1951), American politician - Joe SchmidtJoe SchmidtJoseph Paul Schmidt is a former American football player and coach at both the collegiate and professional levels. His 13-year career with the National Football League's Detroit Lions gained him a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973.-Collegiate career:Schmidt grew up in Pittsburgh,...
(born 1932), American football player - Johannes Schmidt (linguist)Johannes Schmidt (linguist)Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Schmidt was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie of language development.-Biography:Schmidt was born in Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg...
(1843–1901), German linguist - Johannes Schmidt (biologist)Johannes Schmidt (biologist)Johannes Schmidt was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn...
(1877–1933), Danish biologist - Joost SchmidtJoost SchmidtJoost Schmidt was 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 who is best known for designing the famous poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar, Germany.-Studies:Schmidt studied art at...
(1893–1948), teacher at the Bauhaus - Josef SchmidtJosef SchmidtJoseph Schmidt was a Romanian Jewish tenor and actor. He was born in Davideny village of Storozhynets district in the Bukovina province of Austria-Hungary, later Romania and now part of Ukraine....
(1904–1942), singer, actor - Josef Friedrich SchmidtJosef Friedrich SchmidtJosef Friedrich Schmidt was a German board game inventor.- Biography :Schmidt was the inventor of board game Mensch ärgere dich nicht. He invented the game in 1907/1908....
(1871–1948), German board game inventor - Joseph Hermann SchmidtJoseph Hermann SchmidtJoseph Hermann Schmidt was professor of Obstetrics in Berlin, and official of the Prussian cultural ministry.In 1834 he became head of the Paderborn general hospital and eventually also of the Paderborn maternity clinic. He wrote a textbook of obstetrics widely used in Prussia...
(1804–1852), professor of Obstetrics in Berlin - Justin O. SchmidtJustin O. SchmidtJustin Orvel Schmidt is an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators and creator of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index...
(entomologist), creator of the index of insect sting pain. - Karl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.-Biography:Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt's father was a German professor who, at the time of Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled...
(1890–1957), Chief Curator of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History - Karl Schmidt-RottluffKarl Schmidt-RottluffKarl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke.-Life and work:...
(1884–1976), German painter - Kendall SchmidtKendall SchmidtKendall Francis Schmidt is an American actor and singer-songwriter; he is best known for playing Kendall Knight in Big Time Rush and has played small roles on different TV shows such as ER, Without a Trace, Phil of the Future, Ghost Whisperer, and Frasier...
(1990–present), American actor, singer - Kurt SchmidtKurt SchmidtKurt Schmidt was a German Generalleutnant during the Second World War who also fought during the First World War.-Early life and career:...
(1891–1945), German Lieutenant-General during the Second World War. - Luís Eduardo SchmidtLuís Eduardo SchmidtLuís Eduardo Schmidt, aka Edu , is a Brazilian footballer.A versatile midfielder and forward, he played most of his professional career in Spain - helping both Celta and Betis to their first-ever UEFA Champions League participation, amassing La Liga totals of 253 matches and 63 goals in nine years...
(born 1979), Brazilian football player - Maarten SchmidtMaarten SchmidtMaarten Schmidt is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars.Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Schmidt studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Leiden Observatory in 1956....
(born 1929), Dutch-American astronomer - Martin Johann SchmidtMartin Johann SchmidtMartin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt or Kremserschmidt, , was one of the most outstanding Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo along with Franz Anton Maulbertsch.A son of the sculptor Johannes Schmidt and a pupil of Gottlieb Starmayr, he spent...
(1718–1801), also called Kremser Schmidt Kremserschmidt, Austrian painter - Mike SchmidtMike SchmidtMichael Jack Schmidt is a Hall of Fame third baseman popularly considered among the greatest third basemen in the history of Major League Baseball. He played his entire career for the Philadelphia Phillies....
(born 1949), American baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies - Michael Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Milt SchmidtMilt SchmidtMilton Conrad Schmidt is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre, coach and general manager, mostly for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.-Early years:...
(born 1918), Canadian hockey player - Olaf SchmidtOlaf SchmidtOlaf Schmidt is a German glider aerobatic pilot.He joined his gliding club, Bremer Verein für Luftfahrt e.V., at the age of 13, gaining his glider pilot licence at the age of 16 and a glider and his motor glider instructor rating in 1983 at the age of 21. Since 1984, he has assisted at glider...
(born 1962), German glider aerobatic pilot - Oliver SchmidtOliver SchmidtOliver Schmidt is a German former footballer. He began his career with Hertha BSC, alongside his twin brother Andreas. Together they were part of the Hertha reserve team that reached the final of the German Cup in 1993. Oliver Schmidt left Hertha in 1998, one year after the club had achieved...
, born 1973, German footballer, twin brother of Andreas Schmidt (above) - Oscar SchmidtOscar SchmidtOscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt is a retired Brazilian basketball player. He is also known as Oscar Schmidt Bezerra in Spain, where he played for Fórum Valladolid for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons, and simply Oscar or Mão Santa in his homeland. At his peak, he was 2.05 m tall and weighed...
(born 1958), Brazilian basketball player - Otto SchmidtOtto SchmidtOtto Yulyevich Schmidt was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR , and member of the Communist Party.-Biography:He was born in Mogilev, Russian Empire...
(1891–1956), Soviet scientist - Paul Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Peter Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Pyotr SchmidtPyotr SchmidtPyotr Petrovich Schmidt 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 into the family of a naval officer. His father Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt participated in the defense of Sebastopol during...
(1867–1906, Russian revolutionary of 1905 - Renate SchmidtRenate Schmidtthumb|Renate SchmidtRenate Schmidt 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 school a year before she would have received her Abitur...
(born 1943), German Federal Minister for family affairs - Rob SchmidtRob SchmidtRob Schmidt is an American film director and writer. His film credits include Wrong Turn and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. He also created a pilot called American Town for Twentieth Century Fox...
(born 1965), American film director and writer - Sophie SchmidtSophie SchmidtSophie Diana Schmidt is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for magicJack in the WPS. She is also a member of Canada national women's soccer team.-International Career:Schmidt has represented Canada on the U-17 and U-20 youth teams...
, Canadian soccer player - Steve SchmidtSteve SchmidtSteve Schmidt is an American campaign strategist and public relations worker for the U.S. Republican Party. He specializes in political "message development and strategy"...
, American campaign strategist and public relations expert for the U.S. Republican Party - Tim SchmidtTim SchmidtTim Schmidt is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.He was recruited as the number 29 draft pick in the 2003 AFL Draft from West Adelaide....
(born 1986), Australian rules footballer - Tony SchmidtTony SchmidtTony Schmidt is a German racing driver.-Formula Three:Schmidt competed in German Formula Three from 1999 to 2001, establishing himself as a midfield runner...
(born 1980), German racing driver - Torsten Schmidt (athlete)Torsten Schmidt (athlete)Torsten Schmidt is a male discus thrower from Germany. His personal best throw is 64.78 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Thum....
(born 1974), German discus thrower - Ulderico Schmidt (born 1515), German writer
- Ulla SchmidtUlla SchmidtUrsula Schmidt is a German politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .-Party memberships:...
(born 1949), German Federal Minister for health - Vasili SchmidtVasili SchmidtVasili Schmidt was a Bolshevik politician.On 1 December 1918 he was appointed Commissar for Labour, a post he held until 29 November 1928. He was particularly concerned with the statification of the trade unions.-Bibliography:...
(1886–1938), Soviet politician and statesman - Vera SchmidtVera SchmidtVera Schmidt is a singer-songwriter who rose to popularity after placing fifth in the Hungarian version of Pop Idol Megasztár.She is a student in Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.- Early life :...
(born 1982), Hungarian singer-songwriter - Walter Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Wilhelm Schmidt (disambiguation)
- William Schmidt (disambiguation)
- Wolfgang M. SchmidtWolfgang M. SchmidtWolfgang M. Schmidt is a mathematician born in 1933. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD, which was supervised by Edmund Hlawka, in 1955...
(born 1933), mathematician
See also
- Smith (surname)Smith (surname)Smith is an English family name originating in England. It is the most common surname in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, the second most common surname in Canada, and the fifth most common surname in Ireland...
- Schmitt (disambiguation)
- SchmitzSchmitzSchmitz is a common German surname , which may refer to:* Becky Schmitz, an Iowa State Senator for Iowa's 45th district elected in 2006* Bob Schmitz , American football player* Bruno Schmitz , German architect...
- Schmid (disambiguation)
- SchmiedSchmiedSchmied is a surname of German origin. Its meaning is derived from the German word Schmied, which is a smith . Common variations are Schmitt, Schmit, Schmidt, and Smith.- Changes over time :...
- SmitsSmitsSmits is a Dutch surname that is considered a variant of the more common Smit surname.- Frequency of occurrence in general populations :Information for surname frequency in the Netherlands is limited by the end of comprehensive census taking in 1971...