John Smith - Definition and Overview

John Smith is often regarded as the most common personal name in England and in some other English-speaking countries. For this reason there are a number of famous people of that name; you are probably looking for:

• John Smith, former leader of the British Labour Party
• John Smith of Jamestown, an American colonial pioneer

Other famous people named "John Smith" (or some derivative thereof) include:

• John Smith, an American football player, former placekicker with the New England Patriots
• John Smith, the Director of Finance, Property and Business Affairs of the British Broadcasting Corporation
• John Smith, founder of the Tadcaster brewery in North Yorkshire
• John Smith, a British comics writer
• John Smith, founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
• John Smith, member of the Parliament of Ontario
• John Smith, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, 1924-1928
• John Smith, commissioner of the English Treasury in the 17th century
• John Smith, sometime Acting Governor of Gibraltar
• John Smith, English missionary in the West Indies
• John Smith, professor at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797
• John Smith, officer in the U.S. Navy
• John Smith, a U.S. Senator from New York from 1804 until 1813
• John Smith, U.S. Senator from Ohio
• John Smith, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Smith, a U.S. Representative from Vermont
• John Smith, member of the United States House of Representatives for Virginia
• John Smith, a Welsh MP for the Labour Party
• John Smith, head coach of Oklahoma State University wrestling program
• John Smith, American actor
• John Armstrong Smith, U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John B. Smith, former Governor of New Hampshire
• John Bayard Smith, signer of the American Articles of Confederation from Pennsylvania
• John Christopher Smith, 18th century composer
• John Cotton Smith, former Governor of Connecticut
• John Cyril Smith, leading authority on English Criminal Law
• John Gordon Smith, one of the founders of the first distillery in Scotland
• John Orrin Smith, 19th century woodcutter
• John Quincy Smith, U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John Speed Smith, former Representative from Kentucky to the United States Congress
• John Stafford Smith, composer of the tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• John T. Smith, former Representative from Pennsylvania to the United States Congress
• John Valentine Smith, 19th century New Zealand politician
• John Walter Smith, former Governor of Maryland

• There is also John Maynard Smith a geneticist, but note his surname is Maynard Smith, not Smith.
• A song by the Punk-band Nofx is called "The Death of John Smith".

See also

• John Smyth (disambiguation page)