Barbara Schmitz (born 1975) is a German Roman Catholic theologian.
She is Professor of Old Testament Biblical Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Schmitz studied Catholic Theology in Passau, Jerusalem and Münster and, from 2005 to 2009, was a senior lecturer of Old Testament at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Since July 2011, Schmitz has been Professor of Old Testament and Biblical-Oriental Languages at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
From 2015 to 2019 she was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology, and since 2021 she has been Senator of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.