List of Famous people with last name Smith

John William Smith is an American folkstyle and freestyle wrestler and coach. Smith was a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, and a six-time world level champion with two Olympic Championships and four World Wrestling Championships. Smith is the only American wrestler ever to win six consecutive World or Olympic championships as a competitor. At the end of his competitive career, Smith had won more World and Olympic gold medals in wrestling than any other American. Smith was widely known for his low single leg takedown, and is considered one of the greatest freestyle wrestlers of all time.

Johnny Henry Smith II was an American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist. He wrote "Walk, Don't Run" in 1954. In 1984, Smith was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.

Robert Smith was an English mathematician.

John Smith was an English brewer. He is best known for operating the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, which continues to operate.

Paris Smith is an American actress. She is known for playing Maddie Van Pelt in the Nickelodeon show Every Witch Way.

Colin Smith is a Zimbabwean-born British rower, Olympic silver medallist and three times an Oxford Blue.

Larkin Irvin Smith was an American Congressman from Mississippi serving for seven months until he was killed in a plane crash in Perry County, Mississippi in 1989.

Leonard Smith was a cinematographer who had over 70 film credits from a career that spanned from 1915 to 1946.

Michael Smith is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1997 to 2004, Minister of State for Science and Technology from July 1997 to October 1997, Minister for Education from November 1994 to December 1994, Minister for the Environment from 1992 to 1994, Minister of State at the Department of Industry and Commerce from 1989 to 1992, Minister of State at the Department of Energy from 1987 to 1989, Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Fisheries and Forestry in March 1987 and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture from 1980 to 1981. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary North constituency from 1969 to 1973, 1977 to 1981 and 1987 to 2002. He also served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1983 to 1987 and for the Agricultural Panel from May 1982 to December 1982.