Smellie is a surname of Scottish origin, and may be pronounced "smiley". Smellie is the 191,485th most common surname in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 3,312,521 people. The surname Smellie occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 72 percent of Smellie live; 42 percent live in Caribbean and 42 percent live in Anglo-Caribbean.
People with that name include:
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Anthony Smellie (born 1952), Jamaican-born Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands
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Bob Smellie (1867–1951), Scottish footballer for Queen's Park and Scotland
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Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie (18841968), Canadian nurse
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Gavin Smellie
Gavin Ramon Smellie (born June 26, 1986) is a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.
Born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Smellie moved to Etobicoke in Canada at the age of 14. Smellie is a graduate of Western Kentucky University which he attended ...
(born 1986), Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter
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Hugh Smellie
Hugh Smellie (3 March 1840, in Ayr – 19 April 1891, at Bridge of Allan) was a Scottish engineer.
He was locomotive superintendent of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway from 1870–1878, the Glasgow and South Western Railway from 1878&ndas ...
(184091), Scottish engineer
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Jean Smellie
Dr Jean McIldowie Smellie DM FRCP HonFRCPCH (14 May 1927 – 14 September 2020) was a British paediatrician.
Smellie studied medicine at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and then at University College Hospital.
From 1952 to 1961, she underwent ...
(1927–2020), British paediatrician
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Martin Smellie
Robert Martin Stuart Smellie FRSE FIB (1927–1988) was a 20th-century Scottish biochemist and first Cathcart Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow. The university's Smellie Prize is named after him.
Life
He was born in Roth ...
(1927–1988) Scottish biochemist
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Robert Smellie (19232005), Canadian politician
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Robert Smellie (footballer) ( 1890s), Scottish footballer for Sunderland and Walsall
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Thomas Smellie (politician) (18491925), Canadian doctor and politician
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Thomas Smellie (minister), Presbyterian minister and educator in South Australia in the 1860s
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William Smellie (encyclopedist)
William Smellie (1740–1795) was a Scottish printer who edited the first edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. He was also a naturalist and antiquary, who was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the Society of ...
(174095), Scottish master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist
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William Smellie (geologist) (1885–1973) Scottish geologist
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William Smellie (obstetrician)
William Smellie (5 February 1697 – 5 March 1763) was a Scottish obstetrician and medical instructor who practiced and taught primarily in London. One of the first prominent male midwives in Britain, he designed an improved version of the obst ...
(16971763), Scottish obstetrician
Other uses
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Mauriceau–Smellie–Veit maneuver, an obstetric or emergent medical maneuver utilized in cases of breech delivery
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Point Smellie, a headland dominated by Smellie Hill in South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
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Smellie's Building
Smellie's Building is a heritage-listed warehouse at 32 Edward Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Claude William Chambers and built from 1895 to 1896. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Re ...
, a heritage-listed warehouse in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
See also
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Smillie
References
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