David Smith

David Smith may refer to:

In sports

• Dai Smith (David Smith), rugby league footballer of the 1900s, who played for Salford, and Other Nationalities
• David Smith (sport shooter) (1880–1945), South African Olympic sport shooter
• David Smith (sportsman) (1884–1963), Australian Aussie rules football who played between 1903 and 1914
• David Smith (Gloucestershire cricketer) (1934–2003), English cricketer who played between 1956 and 1971
• David Miln Smith (born 1938), American adventure athlete and speaker
• David Smith (Derbyshire cricketer) (born 1940), English cricketer
• David Smith (baseball historian), founder of Retrosheet; professor at current university since 1975
• David Smith (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1970s for England, Wakefield Trinity, and Leeds
• David Smith (race walker) (born 1955), Australian Olympic race walker
• David Smith (Surrey, Sussex and Worcestershire cricketer) (born 1956), English cricketer who played international cricket between 1986 and 1990
• David Smith (Warwickshire cricketer born 1956), English cricketer
• David Anthony Smith (Australian cricketer) (born 1957), Australian cricketer who played for the Tasmanian Tigers
• David Smith (Warwickshire cricketer born 1962), English cricketer
• Dave Smith (hammer thrower) (born 1962), British Olympic hammer thrower
• Davey Boy Smith (1962–2002), British professional wrestler also known as "The British Bulldog"
• David Smith (curler), Scottish curler; first international competition was 1982
• David Smith (footballer born 1968), English professional footballer who played between 1986 and 2003
• David Smith (footballer born 1970), English professional footballer who played between 1989 and 2004
• David Smith (rugby league played for Easts), rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
• David Smith (hammer thrower) (born 1974), English hammer thrower
• David Smith (rugby footballer) (born 1985), Samoan rugby union footballer for Hurricanes, Blues, and Auckland
• David Smith (rugby union) (born 1988), English rugby union footballer for England 7s, and Northampton
• David Smith (canoer) (born 1987), Australian sprint canoer
• David Smith (sailor) (born 1925), American sailor and Olympic Champion
• David Smith (footballer born 1993), Scottish professional footballer who plays For Hearts
• David Smith (cricketer, born 1945), former English cricketer
• David Smith (cricketer, born 1970), former English cricketer
• David Smith (fighter), American mixed martial arts fighter
• David Hart Smith (born 1985), Canadian professional wrestler of English descent
• David Smith (autoracer), see 1996 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

In politics and government

• Sir David William Smith, 1st Baronet (1764–1837), Canadian soldier and politician
• David Highbaugh Smith (1854–1928), United States Congressman
• David Smith (English politician) (1826–1886), member of the United Kingdom Parliament
• David S. Smith (born 1918), former U.S. ambassador to Sweden
• Sir David Smith (Australian public servant) (born 1933), Official Secretary to five Governors-General of Australia
• David William Smith (born 1938), Ontario politician
• David Smith (Canadian Senator) (born 1941), Canadian lawyer and politician
• David Smith (justice), Canadian jurist; called to the New Brunswick Bar in 1971
• David Smith (Quebec politician) (born 1963), Canadian politician
• David Adam Smith, known as Adam Smith (politician) (born 1965), United States Congressman
• David Smith (American politician), member of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777

In arts and entertainment

• David Smith (director) (1872–1930), English film director of the silent era
• David Stanley Smith (1877–1949), American composer
• David Smith (sculptor) (1906–1965), American Abstract Expressionist
• David Smith (actor), American actor and model; first television cinematography was in 1995
• David Smith (reality TV star), participant in second Joe Millionaire show
• David Brian Smith (born 1981), English artist
• David C. Smith (scholar) (born 1929), biographer of H. G. Wells see H. G. Wells Society
• David Smith (inventor), inventor of Trax and Andantino
• David Smith (musician), member of the Alberni Quartet

In education or religion

• David Hyrum Smith (1844–1904), missionary of the Latter Day Saint movement
• David Eugene Smith (1860–1944), American mathematician and educator
• David A. Smith (Mormon) (1879–1952), bishop and first president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• David Chadwick Smith (1931–2000), Canadian economist
• David Smith (bishop) (born 1935), English Bishop of Bradford
• David J. Smith (born 1948), Australian experimental physicist and Regents' Professor of physics at Arizona State University
• David Smith (botanist) (born 1930), principal of Edinburgh University, 1987–1994
• David Smith (historian) (born 1963), British historian
• David C. Smith (historian) (1929–2009), American historian
• David R. Smith, American physicist; Ph.D. in 1994
• D. M. Smith, professor and mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology
• D. Nichol Smith, Scottish literary scholar
• David J. Smith, radio evangelist, Texas secessionist, and totalitarian conspiracy nut

Others

• David John Smith (1907–1976), head of British retailer W. H. Smith, 1948–1968
• David W. Smith (1926–1981), American pediatrician and dysmorphologist
• David M. Smith (1926–1950), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• David E. Smith (born 1939), American doctor specializing in addiction medicine
• David C. Smith (author) (born 1952), fantasy author
• David Smith (journalist and author) (born 1954), Economics Editor of the UK Sunday Times
• David A. Smith (computer scientist) (born 1957), American computer scientist
• David Smith (author) (born 1958), American author and publisher
• David Andrew Smith (born 1952), Deputy Director of the United Nations Information Office in Washington DC
• David Smith (chef) (born 1982), Australian chef
• D. Brooks Smith, U.S. federal judge
• David L. Smith (born c. 1968), author of the Melissa worm
• David Smith (1701–1787), father of Claudius Smith
• David Smith, ex-husband of Susan Smith and author of a book about the deaths of their sons

See also

• Dave Smith (disambiguation)