Shield (family name)
The family name Schild or Schildt was mainly created as a professional takeover for a shield maker or shield maker . However, it can also be based on a field name or house name. The name is one of the most common names and is common in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The rarer spelling Schildt occurs mainly in northern Germany (focus on Cuxhaven and Stade).
Name bearer
sign
- Alfred Schild (architect) (1905–1996), German architect
- Alfred Schild (physicist) (1921–1977), American physicist
- Armin Schild (* 1961), German trade unionist
- Bernadette Schild (* 1990), Austrian ski racer
- Cedric Schild (* 1992), Swiss journalist and comedian
- Christian Schild (* 1986), Swiss singer
- Christine Schild (* 1947), German actress
- Detlev Schild (* 1951), German physicist and medic
- Edi Schild (1919–2008), Swiss cross-country skier
- Erich Schild (1917–1998), German architect
- Erwin Schild (* 1920), Canadian Judaist, Semitist and rabbi
- Ewald Schild (1899–1962), Austrian biologist
- Frank Schild (1931–2014), German officer
- Franz Josef Schild (1821–1889), Swiss writer
- Heinz Otto Schild (1906–1984), Italian-Austrian-Hungarian pharmacologist
- Heinrich Schild (1895–1978), German politician (DP, CDU)
- Hermann Schild (1913–2006), German racing cyclist
- Horst Schild (* 1942), German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
- Ingeborg Schild (* 1927), German building historian
- Johannes Schild (* 1960), German composer and conductor
- Jörg Schild (* 1946), Swiss politician (FDP)
- Johann Erich Schild (1653–1717), Hanoverian mint master, chamber clerk, chamber agent, British and Brunswick chief chamberlain
- Johann Friedrich Schild (1668–1716), German entrepreneur, manufacturer and founder of the Vogtland white goods industry
- Josef Schild (singer) ( Urs Joseph Schild ; 1841–1905), Swiss singer (tenor) and businessman
- Josef Schild (ski racer) (* 1980), Austrian ski racer
- Marlies Schild (* 1981), Austrian ski racer
- Martina Schild (* 1981), Swiss ski racer
- Morgan Schild (* 1997), American freestyle skier
- René Schild (* 1983) German racing cyclist
- Ronald Schild (* 1970), German book trade manager
- Thekla Schild (1890–1991), German architect
- Theodor Schild (1870–1950), Swiss engineer and industrialist
- Theodor Franz Schild (1889–1929), Austrian composer
- Udo Schild (* 1963), German singer
- Ulrike Schild (* 1958), German social worker, editor, moderator and author
- Werner Schild (* 1924), German soccer player
- Wolfgang Schild (legal historian) (* 1946), German lawyer and legal historian
- Wolfgang Schild (State Secretary) (* 1952), German politician (CDU)
Shields
- Axel Schildt (1951–2019), German historian
- Dagmar Schildt Chidolue (* 1944), German writer
- Frank Schildt (* 1962), German politician (SPD)
- Gerhard Schildt (* 1937), German modern historian
- Göran Schildt (1917–2009), Finnish-Swedish author
- Hans-Gerd Schildt (* 1952), German soccer player
- Herbert Schildt (* 1951), American computer scientist and non-fiction author
- Joachim Schildt (1934–2005), German linguist
- Melchior Schildt (1592 / 1593–1667), German composer and organist
- Ute Schildt (* 1957), German politician (SPD)