Paul Schmidt may refer to:

• Paul Schmidt (footballer) (1917–1961), Australian rules footballer
• Paul Schmidt (interpreter) (1899–1970), German interpreter for Adolf Hitler
• Paul Schmidt (inventor) (1898–1976), German engineer and inventor
• Paul Schmidt (runner) (born 1931), German middle-distance runner
• Paul Schmidt (stabbing victim) (198?–2023), Canadian homicide victim
• Paul Schmidt (translator) (1934–1999), American translator, poet, playwright, and essayist
• Paul Felix Schmidt (1916–1984), chess International Master and chess writer
• Paul Gerhard Schmidt (1937–2010), German medievalist and professor of medieval Latin philology
• Paul Karl Schmidt alias Paul Carell (1911–1997), chief press spokesman for Nazi Germany's Foreign Ministry and later purchaser author
• Paul Wilhelm Schmidt (1845–1917), German theologian
• Paul Schmidt (computer programmer), president of the software company Photodex

• Paul Schmidtberger, author of Design Flaws of the Human Condition