David Smith
David Smith is the name of:
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
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 (Victorian politician) (1861–1943), Australian politician
In arts and entertainment
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 (1884–1962), professor and mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- D. Nichol Smith, Scottish literary scholar
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 (born 1951), U.S. federal judge
- David L. Smith (born c. 1968), author of the Melissa worm
See also