John Smith

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 including:

• John Smith (American football player), a former placekicker with the New England Patriots
• John Smith (BBC), the Director of Finance, Property and Business Affairs of the British Broadcasting Corporation
• John Smith (brewer), founder of the Tadcaster brewery in North Yorkshire
• John Smith (dentist), founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
• John Smith (Detroit mayor), mayor of Detroit, Michigan, 1924-1928
• John Smith (missionary), English missionary in the West Indies
• John Smith (mathematician), professor at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797
• John Smith (Ohio Senator), U.S. Senator from Ohio
• John Smith (UK politician) at one time, leader of the Labour Party
• John Smith (VC), the recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Smith (Welsh politician), a Welsh MP for the Labour Party
• John Smith of Jamestown an American colonial pioneer
• 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 Walter Smith, former Governor of Maryland

• There is also John Maynard Smith a geneticist, but note his surname is Maynard Smith, not Smith.

See also

• John Smyth (disambiguation page)