Schmitt (surname) explained
Schmitt is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
A–K
- Adam Schmitt (born 1968), American singer/songwriter
- Al Schmitt (1930–2021), American recorded music engineer
- Alain Schmitt (born 1983), French judoka
- Alfred Schmitt (1907–1973), French astronomer
- Allison Schmitt (born 1990), American Olympic swimmer
- Father Aloysius Schmitt (1909–1941), Roman Catholic priest who died at Pearl Harbor
- Antoine Schmitt (born 1961), French artist, programming engineer and designer
- Anton Schmitt (died 1916), German sailor killed during World War I
- Arnd Schmitt (born 1965), German fencer and Olympic champion
- Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1886–1969), American historian
- Bernd Schmitt (born 1957), American scholar in marketing and business psychology
- C. L. Schmitt (1912–1993), Pennsylvania legislator
- Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), German intellectual, and jurist
- Carl Schmitt (artist) (1889–1989), American artist
- Casey Schmitt (born 1999), American baseball player for the San Francisco Giants
- Conrad Schmitt (1867–1940), American artist and founder of Conrad Schmitt Studios in Wisconsin
- Cornel Schmitt (1874–1958), German pedagogue, naturalist, music composer, and writer
- David P. Schmitt, American psychologist
- Dennis Schmitt (born 1960), American explorer
- Donald Schmitt (born 1951), Canadian architect
- Ernesto Schmitt (born 1972), German/Uruguayan Entrepreneur
- Edgar Schmitt (born 1963), retired German football player
- Else Schmitt (1921–1995), German politician
- Eric Schmitt (born 1975), American politician from Missouri
- Eric P. Schmitt (born 1959), Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960), French writer
- Erich Schmitt (1912–1979), Swiss field handball player
- Francis O. Schmitt (1903–1995), American scientist
- Florent Schmitt (1870–1958), French composer
- Frieda Schmitt-Lermann (1885-?), German composer
- Gary Schmitt (born 1952), American neo conservative political analyst
- Gladys Schmitt (1909–1972), American writer, editor, and college professor
- Graziella Schmitt (born 1981), Brazilian actress
- Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), American former astronaut and New Mexico Senator; twelfth man to walk on the Moon
- Hugo Schmitt (1904-1977), German-American elephant trainer
- Hélène Schmitt, prize-winning French violinist
- Ingo Schmitt, German politician
- Janis Schmitt (born 1947), American model and actress
- Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), French medievalist
- Jim Schmitt (born 1958), American politician from Wisconsin
- Johan Schmitt (1881–1955), Dutch gymnast
- John Schmitt (economist) (born 1962), American economist
- John Schmitt (American football) (born 1942), American football player
- John Schmitt (rower) (1901–1991), American Olympic rower
- Joseph Schmitt (1734–1791), German/Dutch composer, conductor, music director, publisher, music theorist and pedagogue
- Julie Schmitt (1913–2002), German Olympic gymnast
- Justin Schmitt (born 1974), Australian rules football field umpire
- Kurt Schmitt (1886–1950), German economic leader
L–Z
- Logan Giulietti-Schmitt (born 1985), American ice dancer
- Ludwig Schmitt (1902–1980), German chess master
- Mark Schmitt, American political scientist and author
- Mark Francis Schmitt (1923–2011), American Roman Catholic bishop
- Martin Schmitt (born 1978), German ski jumper
- Matías Schmitt (born 1991), Argentine snowboarder
- Michael N. Schmitt (born 1956), American law scholar
- Morgan Schmitt (born 1985), American road bicycle racing cyclist
- Owen Schmitt (born 1985), American football player
- Otto Schmitt (1913–1998), American inventor and biophysicist
- Otto Schmitt (field hockey) (born 1965), Argentine field hockey goalkeeper
- Pál Schmitt (born 1942), ex-president of Hungary
- Pete Schmitt (born 1984), American football fullback
- Peter J. Schmitt (1950–2012), American politician from New York
- Philipp Schmitt (1902–1950), German SS commandant of Nazi prison camp executed for war crimes
- Ralf Schmitt (born 1977), German football player
- Ricky Schmitt (born 1985), American football punter
- Rob Schmitt (1986), American television journalist
- Rodolfo Schmitt (born 1974), Argentine retired field hockey player
- Roland W. Schmitt (1923–2017), American physicist, business executive and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rudolf Schmitt (1830–1898), German chemist and co-discoverer of the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
- Sebastian Schmitt (born 1996), German basketball player
- Sven Schmitt (born 1976), German football player
- Tchavolo Schmitt (born 1954), guitarist in gypsy jazz
- Ted Schmitt (1916–2001), American football player
- Thilo Schmitt (born 1982), German slalom canoer
- Thorsten Schmitt (born 1975), German Olympic skier
- Tyler Schmitt (born 1986), American football long snapper
- Waldo L. Schmitt (1887–1977), American biologist
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