| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start: | 17 February 1995 Life peerage |
| Birth Name: | Elizabeth Margaret Bennett |
| Birth Date: | 1940 6, df=yes |
| Alma Mater: | University of Glasgow |
| Children: | 3, including Sarah |
| Nationality: | British |
Elizabeth Margaret Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, (; born 4 June 1940), is a British peer and patron of the arts. She is the widow of John Smith, who led the Labour Party from 1992 to 1994.
Born Elizabeth Margaret Bennett, Smith was educated at Hutchesons' Girls Grammar School and the University of Glasgow.[1]
Baroness Smith is the president of Scottish Opera and served as the chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 1995 to 2012.[2] She is also a governor of the English-Speaking Union and a board member of the Centre for European Reform. Within a year of her husband's death, she was created a life peer as Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, of Gilmorehill in the District of the City of Glasgow on 17 February 1995. From 1998 to 2001, she served as president of Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2002, she was elected a fellow of Birkbeck, one of the college's highest honours.
Smith received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1998.[3]
She has three daughters, including Sarah Smith who is the BBC News North America Editor.