Schmidt
The taxon authority Schmidt may refer to:
- Adolf Schmidt (1856–1923), German entomologist
- Adolph Johann Schmidt (1806–1889), German malacologist
- Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt (1812–1899, A.W.F.Schmidt), German naturalist
- Albert Schmidt (Alb.Schmidt), lichenologist
- Alexander Friedrich Wolfgang Schmidt (born 1932, A.F.W.Schmidt), lichenologist
- Antal Schmidt (1944–2010, Ant.Schmidt), phycologist
- Anton Schmidt (1842–1917, A.Schmidt), bryologist
- B. Christian Schmidt (B.C. Schmidt), Canadian entomologist
- Benedikt Schmidt, herpetologist
- Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811–1890, C.F.Schmidt), German botanist
- Catherine Schmidt, Swiss herpetologist
- Chris A. Schmidt, U.S. entomologist
- Christian Schmidt, German zoologist
- Constantin Schmidt, German entomologist
- Daniel James Schmidt, Australian arachnologist
- Dieter Schmidt, herpetologist
- Edmund Schmidt, entomologist
- Erich Walther Schmidt (1890–1969), German entomologist
- Ernst Schmidt (botanist) (1834–1902, E.Schmidt), German botanist
- Ernst Schmidt (entomologist) (1884–1962) German entomologist
- Ernst J.D. Schmidt (fl. 2012, E.J.D.Schmidt), botanist
- Ernst Johannes Schmidt (1877–1933, E.J.Schmidt), Danish botanist and marine biologist
- Evan R. Schmidt (fl. 1992–2008), entomologist (Psocoptera)
- Franklin J.W. Schmidt (1901–1935), U.S. mammalogist and herpetologist
- Franz Schmidt (1751–1834, Schmidt), German botanist
- Franz Wilibald Schmidt (1764–1796, F.W.Schmidt), Bohemian botanist
- Friedrich Schmidt or Fedor Bogdanovich Schmidt (1832–1908, F.Schmidt), Baltic-German and Russian botanist, palaeontologist
- Gerald D. Schmidt (1934–1990), U.S. parasitologist
- Günter E.W. Schmidt (1926–2016), German arachnologist
- Hans Thomsen Schmidt, Danish entomologist
- Horst Schmidt, geologist, micropalaeontologist
- Jesper Birkedal Schmidt, arachnologist
- Joachim Schmidt, German entomologist
- Johann Anton Schmidt (1823–1905, J.A.Schmidt), German botanist
- Johann Carl Schmidt (1793–1850, J.C.Schmidt), German botanist and mycologist
- Jürgen Schmidt, ichthyologist
- Karl-Heinz Schmidt, German acarologist
- Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890–1957), U.S. herpetologist
- Kathleen Schmidt, entomologist
- Kilian Schmidt, entomologist
- Martin Schmidt, entomologist
- Olga Schmidt, German entomologist
- Oscar Schmidt (1823–1886), German zoologist
- Otto Christian Schmidt (1900–1951, O.C.Schmidt), German botanist and phycologist
- Paul Schmidt (1846–?, P.Schmidt), German botanist, and phycologist
- Peter Schmidt (1938–, Pet.Schmidt), German zoologist
- Peter Yulievich Schmidt (1872–1949, P.J. Schmidt / P.Yu. Schmidt), Russian (Soviet) zoologist, and ichthyologist
- Petra Schmidt (fl. 2012, Petra Schmidt), German botanist
- Philipp Schmidt, German herpetologist
- Ray C. Schmidt, ichthyologist
- Robet E. Schmidt, annelidologist
- Stefan Schmidt, German entomologist
- Stephanie M. Schmidt, U.S. arachnologist
- Werner Theodor Schmidt, helminthologist
- Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt (1805–1843, W.L.E.Schmidt), German botanist and entomologist
- William E. Schmidt, phycologist
- Wolfgang Schmidt (fl. 1981, Wolfg.Schmidt), botanist and herpetologist