George Smith may refer to:

People

Business

* George Smith (architect) (1782–1869), southeast London architect * George Girdler Smith (1795–1878), engraver in Boston, Massachusetts * George Smith (publisher, born 1789) (1789–1846), Scottish-born publisher * George Smith (financier) (1808–1899), Chicago financier * George Samuel Fereday Smith (1812–1891), English industrialist * George Smith (publisher, born 1824) (1824–1901), British publisher * George Sutherland Smith (1830–1903), steamer captain and winemaker in Australia * George Smith (philanthropist) (1831–1895), manager of the Whitwick Colliery Company Tileries, campaigner against industrial child labour * George Alvin Smith (1844–1908), American businessman * George Murray Smith the Younger (1859–1919), chairman of the Midland Railway, son of the publisher George Smith * George Washington Smith (architect) (1876–1930), American architect * George Albert Smith Jr. (1905–1969), professor at Harvard Business School * George Bracewell Smith (1912–1976), London businessman and hotel owner

Entertainment and the arts

* George Smith (English artist) (1713/14–1776), English landscape painter and poet * George Washington Smith (dancer) (c. 1820–1899), American ballet dancer * George Barnett Smith (1841–1909), English journalist, biographer, poet * George Albert Smith (filmmaker) (1864–1959), English filmmaker * George Smith (Scottish artist) (1870–1934), painter of landscapes and horses * George Gregory Smith (1865–1932), Scottish literary critic * George O. Smith (1911–1981), science fiction author * George H. Smith (fiction author) (1922–1996), science fiction author * George "Harmonica" Smith (1924–1983), blues harmonica musician * G. E. Smith (born 1952, George Edward Smith), American guitarist * George Smith (singer), member of the British music band New Hope Club * George Smith (Cumberland artist) (fl. 1860s), known as the Skiddaw Hermit

Law

* George Smith (executioner) (1805–1874), English executioner also known as Throttler Smith * George W. Smith (judge) (1820s–1873), justice of the Supreme Court of Texas * George Hugh Smith (1827–1901), Confederate Civil War veteran, Los Angeles lawyer and judge * George Rose Smith (1911–1992), justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court * George Curtis Smith (1935–2020), United States federal judge * George Bundy Smith (1937–2017), New York State Supreme Court justice * George P. Smith II (born 1939), professor of law

Military

* George Smith (Royal Navy officer) (1797?–1850), British navy captain * George Hugh Smith (1827–1901), Confederate Civil War veteran, Los Angeles lawyer and judge * George Fairlamb Smith (1840–1877), American Union War Union Army colonel, politician and lawyer * George R. Smith (Paymaster-General) (1850–1928), U.S. Army general * George W. Smith (USMC) (1925–2014), major general in the U.S. Marine Corps * George Edward Smith (born 1940), POW in Vietnam for two years, released in 1965 * George W. Smith Jr. (), lieutenant general in the U.S. Marine Corps

Politics and civil service

United States

* George Smith (Missouri politician) (1809–1881), lieutenant governor of Missouri * George Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (), U.S. representative from Pennsylvania * George F. Smith (), early Wisconsin Territory legislator * George Baldwin Smith (1823–1879), attorney general of Wisconsin, assemblyman, mayor of Madison * George A. Smith (Michigan politician) (1825–1893) * George C. Smith (Wisconsin politician) (), Wisconsin farmer and legislator * George C. Smith (Mississippi politician) ( * George Fairlamb Smith (1840–1877), American Union War Union Army colonel, politician and lawyer * George A. Smith (California politician) (1844–1916), member of the Los Angeles City Council * George Edwin Smith (1849–1919), U.S. representative and senator of Massachusetts * George J. Smith (1859–1913), US representative from New York * George L. Smith (Georgia politician) (1912–1973), American politician in the state of Georgia * George Luke Smith (1837–1884), US representative from Louisiana * George M. Smith (1912–1962), lieutenant governor of Wisconsin * George Ross Smith (1864–1952), U.S. representative from Minnesota, 1913–1917 * George Otis Smith (1871–1944), director of United States Geological Survey, chairman of Federal Power Commission * George S. Smith (1907–1986), mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania, 1960–1968 * George T. Smith (1916–2010), American Democratic Party politician and jurist from the state of Georgia * George Washington Smith (congressman) (1846–1907), U.S. Representative from Illinois * George Weissinger Smith (1864–1931), mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, 1917–1921 * George William Smith (politician) (1762–1811), governor of Virginia *George Murrell Smith Jr. (born 1968), American Republican Party politician from South Carolina * George Fairlamb Smith (1840–1877), American soldier, politician, and lawyer from Pennsylvania

United Kingdom

* George Smith (MP for Exeter) (died 1619), English MP for Exeter, 1604 * George Smith (died 1658) (1600s–1658), English lawyer and politician * George Smith (1765–1836), British MP representing Midhurst * George Robert Smith (MP) (1793–1869), English MP for Midhurst 1831–2 and Wycombe 1838–41 * George Smith (civil servant) (died 1938), British civil servant and governor of Nyasaland

Australia

* George Paton Smith (1829–1877), Australian politician and attorney-general of Victoria * George Ivan Smith (1915–1995), Australian U.N. representative to the Republic of Congo * George Warwick Smith (1916–1999), Australian public servant

Canada

* George Smith (Nova Scotia politician) (died 1850), Nova Scotian representative * George Byron Smith (1839–1917), Ontario representative and businessman * George Smith (Ontario politician) (1852–1930), Scottish-born Ontario representative * George Wilbert Smith (1855–1931), Alberta member of the Legislative Assembly * George Robert Smith (Canadian politician) (1860–1922), Canadian politician * George Joseph Smith (Canadian politician) (), Ontario representative * George P. Smith (politician) (1873–?), politician and minister of the Crown from Alberta, Canada * George Isaac Smith (1909–1982), premier of Nova Scotia

New Zealand

* George John Smith (1862–1946), New Zealand Member of Parliament * Harold Smith (New Zealand politician) (1866–1936), George Harold Smith

Religion

* George Smith (Scottish clergyman) (1748–1843), minister in Galston, East Ayrshire * George Smith (historian) (1800–1868), British rail businessman, minister, religious historian * George Smith (bishop of Victoria) (1815–1871), second principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849–1864 * George A. Smith (1817–1875), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles * George Smith (bishop of Argyll and the Isles) (1840–1918), Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman * George Smith (chaplain) (1845–1918), missionary, army chaplain in South Africa, and defender of Rorke's Drift * George Adam Smith (1856–1942), Scottish divine, author of reference work on geography of the Holy Land * George Albert Smith (1870–1951), eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * George Smith (priest) (1877–1964), Archdeacon of Madras * G. Carlos Smith (1910–1987), youth and missionary leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Wayne Smith (bishop) (George Wayne Smith, born 1955), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri

Science

* George Smith (mycologist) (1895–1967), British mycologist * George E. Smith (1930–2025), co-inventor of the charge-coupled device, received Nobel Prize in Physics * George D. W. Smith (born 1943), materials scientist, co-invented the atom probe tomograph * George Davey Smith (born 1959), British epidemiologist * George Smith (chemist) (born 1941), American biochemist, received Nobel Prize in Chemistry * George Smith (surgeon) (1919–1994), Scots-born surgeon working in American universities

Sports

American football

* George Smith (center) (1914–1986), American football center in the NFL * George Smith (American football coach) (born 1948), American football coach

Association football

* George Smith (footballer, born 1868) (1868–?), for Small Heath * George Smith (footballer, born 1879) (1879–1908), for Preston North End, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers * George Smith (footballer, born 1886) (1886–1978), for Southampton * George Smith (footballer, born 1890) (1890–?), for Ilford, Genoa, and Alessandria * George E. Smith (footballer) (), English football outside forward for Brentford * George W. Smith (footballer) (1898–1987), Scottish-born footballer for Chelsea * George Smith (footballer, born May 1901) (1901–?), Scottish-born footballer for Notts County in the 1920s * George Smith (footballer, born June 1901) (1901–?), fullback for Walsall and Torquay United in the 1920s * George Smith (footballer, born 1902) (1902–?), player with Gillingham, Tranmere Rovers and Coventry City * George Smith (footballer, born 1908) (1908–1986), halfback for Watford, Clapton Orient and Darlington in the 1930s * George Smith (footballer, born 1910) (1910–?), Welsh footballer * George Smith (soccer) (), Australian footballer for Australia, St. George, Granville and Metters * George Smith (footballer, born 1915) (1915–1983), for Brentford and Queens Park Rangers, manager of Portsmouth * George Smith (footballer, died 1915) (?–1915), English footballer * George Smith (footballer, born 1919) (1919–2001), fullback for Southampton, 1938 to 1949 * George Smith (footballer, born 1921) (1921–2013), forward for Manchester City and Chesterfield in 1940s and '50s * George Smith (Scottish footballer) (born c. 1935), forward with Partick Thistle * George Smith (footballer, born 1936), goalkeeper for Notts County and Hartlepool in 1950s and '60s * George Smith (footballer, born 1945), for Barrow, Middlesbrough, and Swansea City * George Smith (footballer, born 1996), English footballer * George Smith (referee) (1943–2019), Scottish football referee

Baseball

* Germany Smith (George Smith, 1863–1927), shortstop * Heinie Smith (1871–1939), second baseman and manager * George Smith (National League pitcher) (1892–1965), pitcher * George Smith (American League pitcher) (1901–1981), pitcher * George Smith (sportsman) (1927–2011), also played basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters * George Smith (second baseman) (1937–1987), second baseman

Cricket

* George Smith (groundskeeper) (died 1761), London Cricket Club, "keeper" of the Artillery Ground * George Smith (cricketer, born 1785) (1785–1838), English cricketer * George Smith (cricketer, born 1799) (1799–1839), English cricketer * George Smith (cricketer, born 1844) (1844–1876), English cricketer * George Smith (Australian cricketer) (1855–1897), Australian cricketer * George Smith (cricketer, born 1876) (1876–1929), first class cricketer for Yorkshire CCC * George Smith (cricketer, born 1906) (1906–1989), English cricketer * George Smith (Jamaican cricketer) (born 1934), Jamaican cricketer

Other sports

* George William Smith (sportsman) (1874–1954), New Zealand track athlete, and rugby union and rugby league footballer * George Smith (athlete) (1876–1915), British tug of war competitor in the 1908 Summer Olympics * George Smith (ice hockey) (1895–?) * George Smith (basketball) (died 1996), American college basketball coach * George Smith (swimmer) (born 1949), Canadian swimmer * George Smith (rugby union) (born 1980), Australian Wallabies flanker

Other fields

* Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1787–1860), high sheriff of Nottingham * Joe Coe (died 1891), also known as George Smith, African-American laborer who was lynched in 1891 *George H. Smith (died 1896), English immigrant and alleged murderer, see killing of George Smith * George Smith (1833–1919), Scottish historian and geographer * George Williamson Smith (1836–?), president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut * George Smith (Assyriologist) (1840–1876), English translator of the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' * George E. Smith (gambler) (1862–1905), American gambler and thoroughbred owner * George Wishart Smith (1868–before 1960), railway executive in Western Australia and Tasmania * George Joseph Smith (1872–1915), British "Brides in the Bath" murderer * George McCall Smith (1882–1958), Scottish doctor, medical superintendent and community leader in New Zealand * George Toogood Smith (1903–1955), uncle of John Lennon and husband of Mimi Smith * George Smith (trade unionist) (1914–1978), general secretary of UCATT *

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(1949–2022), American libertarian and atheist author * George Allen Smith (1979–2005), passenger missing from the cruise ship MS ''Brilliance of the Seas''

Others

* George Smith (''Hollyoaks''), character on British soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' * George Smith (horse) (1913–?), American thoroughbred racehorse, 1916 Kentucky Derby winner