| Charles Howard Smith | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | CMG |
| Minister From: | British |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Term Start: | 1939 |
| Term End: | 1940 |
| Predecessor: | The Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay |
| Successor: | Sir Alec Randall |
| Minister From1: | British |
| Country1: | Iceland |
| Term Start1: | 1940 |
| Term End1: | 1942 |
| Successor1: | Sir Gerald Shepherd |
| Birth Date: | 17 May 1888 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Diplomat |
Charles Howard Smith (17 May 1888 – 23 July 1942) was a British diplomat.
Smith was educated at Winchester and Brasenose College, Oxford, before joining the British Foreign Office in 1912.[1] He remained in the diplomatic service throughout World War I and the inter-war period, during which he was private secretary to the then Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cecil Harmsworth MP (later Lord Harmsworth) 1920–22.[2] Smith was himself eventually appointed Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1933. In October 1939 he took up the position of Minister to Copenhagen,[3] but was forced to leave upon the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940. Following his departure from Copenhagen he became the first British Minister to Reykjavik.[4] He died in his post in July 1942.[5]