Famous People with Name Schmidt

Gustav Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gustav Schmidt: is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s.

Regina Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Regina Schmidt: is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she finished fifth in the K-4 500 m event.

Thomas Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Thomas Schmidt: is a German slalom canoer who competed in the 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold in the K-1 event at Sydney in 2000.

Veronika Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Veronika Schmidt: is a former East German Cross-country skier who competed from 1974 to 1982. She won two 4 x 5 km medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in Lake Placid and a bronze in Innsbruck.

Nicolaus Schmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Nicolaus Schmidt: is a German artist and photographer. He studied at the Hamburg Art Academy (HfBK) in the 1970s. In 1975, he founded ROSA, one of Germany’s first gay-themed magazines. From 1980-89, Schmidt was an art teacher in Hamburg. During the 1980s, he was a volunteer with the German branch of the children’s rights organization Terre des Hommes, serving for a time as its chairman. Since 1991, he has been living and making art in the Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg.