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
  • (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

Similar names

  • Goldschmidt family
  • Goldschmid
  • Goldschmied
  • Goldschmitt
  • Goldsmid
  • Goldsmith
  • Aurifaber

Geochemistry

  • Goldschmidt classification (geochemistry)
  • Goldschmidt tolerance factor (geochemistry)
  • V. M. Goldschmidt Award, American science award in geochemistry