Goldschmidt

Goldschmidt is a German surname meaning "Goldsmith". Notable people with the surname include:

• Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848–1906), composer
• Adolph Goldschmidt (1863–1944), art historian
• Adolphe Goldschmidt (1838–1918), German-British banker
• Alfons Goldschmidt (1879–1940), German journalist, economist and university lecturer
• Arnd Goldschmidt (born 1981), German flatwater canoer
• Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), composer
• Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (1807–1851), astronomer, mathematician, and physicist
• Christina Goldschmidt, British statistician
• David M. Goldschmidt (born 1942), American mathematician
• Edmond Goldschmidt (1863–1934), French photographer
• Elisabeth Goldschmidt (1912–1970), Israeli geneticist
• Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887–1954), Austrian-British bookseller and bibliophile
• Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 1928), French writer and translator of German origin
• Hans Goldschmidt (1861–1923), chemist, son of Theodor Goldschmidt
• Harold Goldsmith, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer
• Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt (1857–1937), Austrian chemist, father of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, founder of modern geochemistry
• Hermann Goldschmidt (1802–1866), astronomer and painter
• Hilde Goldschmidt (1897–1980), artist
• Jakob Goldschmidt (1882–1955), German banker
• John Goldschmidt (1943–2025), British-Austrian film director and producer
• Lazarus Goldschmidt (1871–1950), German writer and translator
• Levin Goldschmidt (1829–1897), jurist
• Márcia Goldschmidt (born 1962), Brazilian TV presenter
• Marie Goldschmidt (1890–1917), French aeronaut
• Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt (1819–1887), publisher and writer
• Neil Goldschmidt (born 1940), U.S. politician
• Nicholas Goldschmidt (1908–2004), conductor, artistic director
• Otto Goldschmidt (1829–1907), German composer
• Pascal Goldschmidt (–), cardiologist, and dean of University of Miami School of Medicine
• Paul Goldschmidt (born 1987), American baseball player
• Pinchas Goldschmidt (born 1963), Chief Rabbi of Moscow and President of the CER
• Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt (1878–1958), geneticist
• Robert Goldschmidt (1877–1935), Belgian physicist
• Rudolf Goldschmidt (1876–1950), engineer and inventor
• Samuel Goldschmidt [de] (1869–1940), German banker, died in exile
• Sandra Goldschmidt (born 1976), German trade unionist
• Siegfried Goldschmidt (1844–1884), German Indologist
• Theodor Goldschmidt (1817–1875), chemist
• Tijs Goldschmidt (born 1953), Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist
• Tobias Goldschmidt (born 1981), German politician
• Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853–1933), chemist
• Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888–1947), geochemist, considered the founder of modern geochemistry. Son of Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, Austrian chemist
• Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher) (1914–1981), French historian of philosophy
• Walter Goldschmidt (1913–2010), American anthropologist and academic