George Smith

Business

• George Smith (architect) (1782–1869), southeast London architect
• George Girdler Smith (1795–1878), engraver in Boston, Massachusetts
• George Smith (publisher, born 1789) (1789–1846), Scottish-born publisher
• George Smith (financier) (1808–1899), Chicago financier
• George Samuel Fereday Smith (1812–1891), English industrialist
• George Smith (publisher, born 1824) (1824–1901), British publisher
• George Sutherland Smith (1830–1903), steamer captain and winemaker in Australia
• George Smith (philanthropist) (1831–1895), manager of the Whitwick Colliery Company Tileries, campaigner against industrial child labour
• George Alvin Smith (1844–1908), American businessman
• George Murray Smith the Younger (1859–1919), chairman of the Midland Railway, son of the publisher George Smith
• George Washington Smith (architect) (1876–1930), American architect
• George Albert Smith Jr. (1905–1969), professor at Harvard Business School
• George Bracewell Smith (1912–1976), London businessman and hotel owner

Entertainment and the arts

• George Smith (English artist) (1713/14–1776), English landscape painter and poet
• George Washington Smith (dancer) (c. 1820–1899), American ballet dancer
• George Barnett Smith (1841–1909), English journalist, biographer, poet
• George Albert Smith (filmmaker) (1864–1959), English filmmaker
• George Smith (Scottish artist) (1870–1934), painter of landscapes and horses
• George Gregory Smith (1865–1932), Scottish literary critic
• George O. Smith (1911–1981), science fiction author
• George H. Smith (fiction author) (1922–1996), science fiction author
• George "Harmonica" Smith (1924–1983), blues harmonica musician
• G. E. Smith (born 1952, George Edward Smith), American guitarist
• George Smith (singer), member of the British music band New Hope Club
• George Smith (Cumberland artist) (fl. 1860s), known as the Skiddaw Hermit

Law

• George Smith (executioner) (1805–1874), English executioner also known as Throttler Smith
• George W. Smith (judge) (1820s–1873), justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
• George Hugh Smith (1827–1901), Confederate Civil War veteran, Los Angeles lawyer and judge
• George Rose Smith (1911–1992), justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
• George Curtis Smith (1935–2020), United States federal judge
• George Bundy Smith (1937–2017), New York State Supreme Court justice
• George P. Smith II (born 1939), professor of law

Military

• George Smith (Royal Navy officer) (1797?–1850), British navy captain
• George Hugh Smith (1827–1901), Confederate Civil War veteran, Los Angeles lawyer and judge
• George Fairlamb Smith (1840–1877), American Union War Union Army colonel, politician and lawyer
• George R. Smith (Paymaster-General) (1850–1928), U.S. Army general
• George W. Smith (USMC) (1925–2014), major general in the U.S. Marine Corps
• George Edward Smith (born 1938), POW in Vietnam for two years, released in 1965
• George W. Smith Jr. (fl. 1985–2023), lieutenant general in the U.S. Marine Corps

Politics and civil service

Religion

• George Smith (Scottish clergyman) (1748–1843), minister in Galston, East Ayrshire
• George Smith (historian) (1800–1868), British rail businessman, minister, religious historian
• George Smith (bishop of Victoria) (1815–1871), second principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849–1864
• George A. Smith (1817–1875), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
• George Smith (bishop of Argyll and the Isles) (1840–1918), Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman
• George Smith (chaplain) (1845–1918), missionary, army chaplain in South Africa, and defender of Rorke's Drift
• George Adam Smith (1856–1942), Scottish divine, author of reference work on geography of the Holy Land
• George Albert Smith (1870–1951), eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• George Smith (priest) (1877–1964), Archdeacon of Madras
• G. Carlos Smith (1910–1987), youth and missionary leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Wayne Smith (bishop) (George Wayne Smith, born 1955), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri

Science

• George Smith (mycologist) (1895–1967), British mycologist
• George E. Smith (1930–2025), co-inventor of the charge-coupled device, received Nobel Prize in Physics
• George D. W. Smith (born 1943), materials scientist, co-invented the atom probe tomograph
• George Davey Smith (born 1959), British epidemiologist
• George Smith (chemist) (born 1941), American biochemist, received Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• George Smith (surgeon) (1919–1994), Scots-born surgeon working in American universities

Sports

Other fields

• Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1787–1860), high sheriff of Nottingham
• Joe Coe (died 1891), also known as George Smith, African-American laborer who was lynched in 1891
• George H. Smith (died 1896), English immigrant and alleged murderer, see killing of George Smith
• George Smith (1833–1919), Scottish historian and geographer
• George Williamson Smith (1836–?), president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
• George Smith (Assyriologist) (1840–1876), English translator of the Epic of Gilgamesh
• G. C. Moore Smith (George Charles Moore Smith, 1858–1940), English literary scholar
• George E. Smith (gambler) (1862–1905), American gambler and thoroughbred owner
• George Wishart Smith (1868–before 1960), railway executive in Western Australia and Tasmania
• George Joseph Smith (1872–1915), British "Brides in the Bath" murderer
• George McCall Smith (1882–1958), Scottish doctor, medical superintendent and community leader in New Zealand
• George Toogood Smith (1903–1955), uncle of John Lennon and husband of Mimi Smith
• George Smith (trade unionist) (1914–1978), general secretary of UCATT
• George H. Smith (1949–2022), American libertarian and atheist author
• George Allen Smith (1979–2005), passenger missing from the cruise ship MS Brilliance of the Seas