Brian Duncan Schneider (born November 26, 1976 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American baseball player, who plays catcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.

Schneider played high school baseball at Northampton Area High School in Northampton, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania's highly competitive East Penn Conference (now known as the Lehigh Valley Conference). He was named Player of the Year in Lehigh Valley in both 1994 and 1995.

Schneider was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 1995 June draft. In 1997 at the Class-A Cape Fear Crocs of the South Atlantic League, Schneider emerged as a premiere defensive player while accumulating solid offensive numbers and was named to the mid-season All-Star team.