# Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith may refer to:

## In politics

* Samuel Smith (Connecticut politician) (1646–1735), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1691
* Samuel Smith (1754–1834), British Member of Parliament for Leicester, Malmesbury, Midhurst, St Germans and Wendover
* Samuel Smith (Liberal politician) (1836–1906), British MP for Liverpool, 1882–1885 and Flintshire, 1886–1906
* Samuel Smith Jr., American politician; Democratic member of the Indiana Senate, 1998–2008
* Samuel Hardman Smith (1868–1956), Canadian politician; municipal politician in Edmonton
* Sam Smith (American politician), state legislator in Washington state and Seattle city councilman
* Samuel Smith (Australian politician) (1857–1916), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Australia
* Samuel Smith (New York politician), mayor of the City of Brooklyn, New York, US, 1850
* Samuel Smith (Maryland politician) (1752–1839), U.S. Senator and Representative from Maryland
* Samuel Smith (New Hampshire politician) (1765–1842), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
* Samuel Smith (Pennsylvania politician), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1805–1811
* Samuel Smith (Upper Canada politician) (1756–1826), American-born Canadian politician; Administrator of Upper Canada, 1817–1818
* Samuel A. Smith (1795–1861), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
* Samuel Axley Smith (1822–1863), U.S. Representative from Tennessee
* Samuel E. Smith (1788–1860), American politician; Governor of Maine, 1831–1834
* Samuel George Smith (1822–1900), MP for Aylesbury, 1859–1880
* Samuel H. Smith (politician) (born 1955), American politician; Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* Samuel James Smith (1897–1964), Australian politician, New South Wales MLC
* Samuel William Smith (1852–1931), American politician; Congressman from Michigan

## In education and academia

* Samuel Smith, father and son, both English priests and educators:
** Samuel Smith (schoolmaster) (died 1808), Headmaster of Westminster School
** Samuel Smith (Dean of Christ Church) (1765–1841), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
* Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751–1819), American educator; seventh president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University)
* Samuel Roger Smith (1853–1916), co-founder and first president of Messiah College in Pennsylvania
* Sam Smith (psychologist) (1929–2012), second president of Athabasca University
* Samuel H. Smith (educator) (born 1940), American educator; president of Washington State University, 1985–2000
* Samuel L. Smith, school administrator and architect of Rosenwald schools in the U.S.

## In other fields

* Sam Smith (painter) (1918–1999), American artist
* Samuel Smith (composer) (dates unknown), classical music composer
* Samuel Smith (prison chaplain) (1620–1698), Ordinary of Newgate prison
* Samuel Smith (photographer) (1802–1892), English photographer aka 'Philosopher' Smith.
* Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895), American Baptist minister and writer
* Samuel Harrison Smith (printer) (1772–1845), American journalist and newspaper publisher
* Samuel Smith (chemist) (1927–2005), American scientist; co-inventor of Scotchgard
* Samuel Walter Johnson Smith (1871–1948), English physicist
* Samuel Smith (watchmaker) (died 1875), founder of Smiths Group
* Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints) (1808–1844), US, brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.
* Samuel J. Smith, Baptist missionary, printer and publisher in Siam
* Samuel Pountney Smith (1812–1883), English architect
* Samuel Smith (winemaker) (1812–1889),
* African-American victim of the Lynching of Samuel Smith (1924)
* Samuel Timothy Smith, birth name of Tim McGraw (born 1967), American country singer