George Smith Explained
George Smith may refer to:
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), campaigned against industrial child labour
- George Murray Smith the Younger (1859–1919), chairman of the Midland Railway
- George Washington Smith (architect) (1876–1930), American architect
- George Albert Smith Jr. (1905–1969), professor at Harvard Business School
- George Alvin Smith (1844–1908), Richmond, Virginia businessman
- George Bracewell Smith (1912–1976), London businessman and hotel owner
Entertainment and the arts
- G. E. Smith (George Edward Smith), American guitarist
- George Smith (English artist) (1713/14–1776), English landscape painter and poet
- George Smith (1833–1919), Scottish historian and geographer
- George Barnett Smith (1841–1909), English journalist, biographer, poet
- George Smith (Scottish artist) (1870–1934), painter of landscapes and horses
- George Albert Smith (filmmaker) (1864–1959), English filmmaker
- George Gregory Smith (1865–1932), Scottish literary critic
- George O. Smith (1911–1981), science fiction author
- George Logie-Smith (1914–2007), Australian orchestra and choral conductor
- George H. Smith (fiction author) (1922–1996), science fiction author
- George "Harmonica" Smith (1924–1983), blues harmonica musician
- George Smith (Hollyoaks), character on British soap opera Hollyoaks
- George Smith (singer), member of the British music band New Hope Club
- George Smith (Cumberland artist) (fl. 1860s), known as the Skiddaw Hermit
- George Washington Smith (dancer), American ballet dancer
Law
Military
Politics
United States
- George Smith (Missouri politician) (1809–1881), lieutenant governor of Missouri
- George Smith (Pennsylvania politician), U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, 1809–1812
- George A. Smith (California politician) (1844–1916), member of Los Angeles City Council
- George A. Smith (Michigan politician) (1825–1893)
- George Baldwin Smith (1823–1879), attorney general of Wisconsin, assemblyman, mayor of Madison
- George C. Smith (Wisconsin politician), fl. 1850s, Wisconsin farmer and legislator
- George C. Smith (Mississippi politician), fl. 1870s
- George Edwin Smith (1849–1919), U.S. representative and senator of Massachusetts
- George F. Smith, early Wisconsin Territory legislator
- 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
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
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 (born 1930), 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
- George Smith (Assyriologist) (1840–1876), English translator of the Epic of Gilgamesh
Sports
American football
Association football (soccer)
- 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 from 1907 to 1911
- George Smith (footballer, born 1890) (1890–?), for Ilford, Genoa, and Alessandria
- 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 (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 (footballer, born 1936), goalkeeper for Notts County and Hartlepool in 950s 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
- George Smith (Scottish footballer) (born c.1935), forward with Partick Thistle
- George E. Smith (footballer), English football outside forward for Brentford
- George W. Smith (footballer), Scottish-born footballer for Chelsea in the 1920s and 1930s
- George Smith (soccer) (active ca. 1930s), Australian association footballer (Australia, St. George, Granville, Metters)
Baseball
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
Other people
- George E. Smith (gambler) (1862–1905), American gambler and thoroughbred owner
- George Joseph Smith (1872–1915), British "Brides in the Bath" murderer
- George Toogood Smith (1903–1955), uncle of John Lennon and husband of Mimi Smith
- George Smith (trade unionist) (1914–1978), general secretary of UCATT
- George Smith (civil servant) (died 1938), British civil servant and governor of Nyasaland
- George Allen Smith (1979–2005), passenger missing from the cruise ship MS Brilliance of the Seas
- George Wishart Smith (1868–before 1960), railway executive in Western Australia and Tasmania
- George McCall Smith, Scottish doctor, medical superintendent and community leader in New Zealand
- George Williamson Smith, president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
- Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet, high sheriff of Nottingham
- Joe Coe (died 1891), also known as George Smith, African-American laborer who was lynched in 1891
- George H. Smith (1949–2022), American libertarian and atheist author
- George H. Smith (died 1896), English immigrant and alleged murderer, see killing of George Smith
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