John Smith

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John Smith may refer to:

• John Smith, a common placeholder name and assumed name, sometimes comical

Academics

• John Smith (anatomist and chemist) (1721–1797), professor of anatomy and chemistry at the University of Oxford, 1766–97
• John Blair Smith (1764–1799), president of Union College, New York
• John Smith (lexicographer) (died 1809), professor of languages at Dartmouth College
• John Smith (astronomer) (1711–1795), Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Master of Caius
• John Augustine Smith (1782–1865), president of the College of William and Mary, 1814–1826
• John Smith (botanist) (1798–1888), curator of Kew Gardens
• J. Lawrence Smith (1818–1883), American doctor and chemist
• John Smith (dentist) (1825–1910), founder of Edinburgh's School of Dentistry
• John Campbell Smith (1828–1914), Scottish writer, advocate and Sheriff-Substitute of Forfarshire
• John Donnell Smith (1829–1928), biologist and taxonomist
• John McGarvie Smith (1844–1918), Australian metallurgist and bacteriologist
• John Alexander Smith (1863–1939), British Idealist philosopher
• John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), geneticist
• John Cyril Smith (1922–2003), leading authority on English criminal law
• John Derek Smith (1924–2003), Cambridge molecular biologist
• John D. Smith (born 1946), indologist at the University of Cambridge
• John H. Smith (mathematician), Boston College educator (retired 2005)
• John Smith (Cambridge, 1766), vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1766 until 1767

Arts

• John Smith (engraver, born 1652) (1652–1742), English mezzotint engraver
• John Smith (English poet) (1662–1717), English poet and playwright
• John Christopher Smith (1712–1795), English composer
• John Warwick Smith (1749–1831), British watercolour landscape painter and illustrator
• John Stafford Smith (1750–1836), composer of the tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• John Raphael Smith (1751–1812), English mezzotint engraver and painter
• John Thomas Smith (engraver) (1766–1833), draughtsman, engraver and antiquarian
• John Smith (clockmaker) (1770–1816), Scottish clockmaker
• John Rubens Smith (1775–1849), London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States
• John Smith (architect) (1781–1852), Scottish architect
• John Smith (art historian) (1781–1855), British art dealer
• John Orrin Smith (1799–1843), English wood engraver
• John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), English novelist
• John G. Smith (poet) (died 1891), Scottish poet
• John Moyr Smith (1839–1912), British artist and designer
• John Berryman (1914–1972), originally John Allyn Smith, American poet
• John Smith (Canadian poet) (born 1927), Canadian poet
• John Smith (actor) (1931–1995), American actor
• John N. Smith (born 1943), Canadian film director and screenwriter
• John Smith (English filmmaker) (born 1952), avant-garde filmmaker
• John F. Smith, American soap opera writer
• John Smith (comics writer) (born 1967), British comics writer
• John Smith (musician), English contemporary folk musician and recording artist
• John F. Smith (musician), British musician and trade unionist

Military

• John Smith (banneret) (1616–1644), Englishman who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War
• John Smith (British Army officer, born 1754) (1754–1837), soldier in the American Revolutionary War
• John Mark Frederick Smith (1790–1874), British general and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers
• John Smith (sergeant) (1814–1864), soldier in the Bengal Sappers and Miners, and Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipient
• John E. Smith (1816–1897), Swiss emigrant, Union general during the Civil War
• John Smith (private) (1822–1866), soldier in the 1st Madras (European) Fusiliers and Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipient
• John Smith (Medal of Honor, born 1826) (1826–1907), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Smith (Medal of Honor, born 1831) (1831–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Smith (Medal of Honor, born 1854) (1854–?), United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• John Manners Smith (1864–1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Smith (flying ace) (1914–1972), United States Marine Corps flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient

Politicians

Religion

• John Smith (Bishop of Llandaff) (died 1479), Welsh bishop
• John Smith (Platonist) (1618–1652), one of the founders of the Cambridge Platonists
• John Smith (Unitarian) (fl. 1648–1727), Unitarian writer
• John Smith (priest, born 1659) (1659–1715), English editor of Bede
• John Smith (uncle of Joseph Smith) (1781–1854), Presiding Patriarch and member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• John Smith (Restoration Movement) (1784–1868), early Restoration Movement leader
• John Smith (missionary) (1790–1824), English missionary in Demerara
• John Smith (Revivalist) (1794–1831), English Methodist minister known as "The Revivalist"
• John Smith (Anglican priest) (1799–1870), first person to transcribe the Diary of Samuel Pepys
• John Smith (nephew of Joseph Smith) (1832–1911), Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• John Henry Smith (1848–1911), apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• John Taylor Smith (1860–1938), Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone
• John Smith (Archdeacon of Wiltshire) (1933–2000), Anglican priest
• John M. Smith (bishop) (born 1935), American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
• John H. Smith (bishop) (1939–2012), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, 1989–1999
• John Smith (God's Squad), Australian founder of the God's Squad motorcycle club

Sports

Criminals

• John Smith (housebreaker) (1661–after 1727), burglar who evaded hanging thrice and was eventually transported to Virginia
• John Smith (murderer) (born 1951), convicted murderer who killed his first and second wives
• John Eldon Smith (1930–1983), convicted of the murders of Ronald and Juanita Akins

Businessmen

• John Smith (brewer) (1824–1879), Tadcaster brewery founder in North Yorkshire, UK
• John F. Smith Jr. (born 1938), former chairman and chief executive officer, General Motors
• John J. Smith (1820–1906), African American abolitionist, Underground Railroad contributor and politician
• John L. Smith (pharmaceutical executive) (1889–1950), German-born American chemist, pharmaceutical executive and Major League Baseball team owner
• John Smith (executive) (born 1957), former chief executive officer, BBC Worldwide Ltd
• John Russell Smith (1810–1894), English bookseller and bibliographer

Others

• John Smith (Chippewa Indian) (died 1922), reputed to have died at the age of 137
• John Smith (died 1835) (1795–1835), one of the last two Englishmen who were hanged for sodomy in 1835
• Sir John Smith (police officer) (born 1938), British police officer, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1991–1995
• Sir John Smith, 1st Baronet (1744–1807), baronet
• John Brown Smith (1837–?), American author, shorthand developer, utopianist, tax resister
• John Chaloner Smith (1827–1895), Irish civil engineer and writer on mezzotints
• John Douglas Smith (born 1966), sound editor
• John Baptist Smith (1843–1923), invented and helped build a lantern system of naval signaling
• John K. Smith (died 1845), founder of SmithKline as in GlaxoSmithKline, the leading pharmaceutical business
• John Kilby Smith (1752–1842), public servant from New England
• John Sidney Smith (1804–1871), legal writer
• John Gordon Smith (surgeon) (1792–1833), Scottish surgeon and professor of medical jurisprudence
• John Kelday Smith (1834–1889), Scottish bellhanger and songwriter
• John Pye-Smith (1774–1851), Congregational theologian and tutor
• John Smalman Smith, British judge in the Colony of Lagos
• John William Smith (legal writer) (1809–1845), English barrister and legal writer
• John Henry Smith (reporter), American sports journalist
• John Lewis Smith Jr. (1912–1992), United States federal judge

Characters

• Ranger Smith (John Francis Smith), a park ranger in Yogi Bear cartoons
• J. Wesley Smith (1899–1965), a character in cartoons of Burr Shafer
• John Smith (Kyon), Kyon's alias in the novels and animations of the Haruhi Suzumiya series
• John "Hannibal" Smith, a character in The A-Team
• John Smith, the human identity of Red Tornado, a fictional superhero appearing in DC Comics
• John Smith, also known as "Number Four", the protagonist of the young adult novel, I Am Number Four
• John Smith, the protagonist played by Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing (1996 film)
• John Smith, the protagonist played by Brad Pitt in Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• John Smith (Doctor Who), an alias of the Doctor in Doctor Who media
• John Smith (Jericho), a character in the TV series Jericho
• Agent Smith, also known as John Smith, the main villain in The Matrix franchise
• John Smith, a Nazi SS Obergruppenführer in the television adaptation of The Man in the High Castle
• John Smith, the main villain played by Zachary Quinto, in the movie Hitman: Agent 47
• Johnny Smith (Dead Zone), main character Stephen King's novel The Dead Zone and its subsequent adaptations

See also

• Joe Bloggs
• John Doe
• Sir John Smith (disambiguation)
• John Smyth (disambiguation)
• John Smythe (disambiguation)
• Johnny Smith (disambiguation)
• Jack Smith (disambiguation)
• Jonathan Smith (disambiguation)
• Jan Smit (disambiguation)
• John Smit (born 1978), South African rugby player
• Juan Smith (born 1981), South African rugby player
• John Smith's Brewery, a brewery founded in 1758 by John Smith at Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, England
• John Smith & Son, Glasgow-based bookseller
• Ode to J. Smith, the Travis album written about John Smith, the unknown everyday man
• Johann Schmidt (disambiguation)
• Smith of Derby Group, group of clockmaking companies including John Smith & Sons