Smoot (disambiguation)

A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet, 7 inches.

Smoot or Smoots may also refer to:

Places

• Smoots, Virginia, US
• Smoot, West Virginia, US
• Smoot, Wyoming, US
• Smoots Creek, a river in Kansas

People

• Abraham O. Smoot (1815–1895), mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, US
• Dan Smoot (1913–2003), FBI agent and conservative political activist
• Dawuane Smoot (born 1995), American football player
• Fred Smoot (born 1979), American football player
• George Smoot (born 1945), astrophysics scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nobel prize laureate in Physics, 2006
• Julianna Smoot, political fundraiser for the Democratic Party
• L. Douglas Smoot (born 1934), American chemical engineer
• Oliver R. Smoot (born 1940), former head of ISO and ANSI, for whom the unit was named
• Reed Smoot (1862–1941), Senator from Utah, sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and son of Abraham O. Smoot
• Reed Smoot (cinematographer), a United States cinematographer

Characters

• Smoot, half of Canadian horror clown duo Mump and Smoot
• Midge Smoot, a fictional character from Shining Time Station

Law

• Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act 1930 US protectionist trade legislation