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William Smith is the name of:

United States politicians

• William Smith (Maryland) (1728–1814), United States representative from Maryland (1789–1791)
• William Smith (South Carolina representative) (1751–1837), United States representative from South Carolina (1797–1798)
• William Stephens Smith (1755–1816), United States representative from New York (1813–1816)
• William Loughton Smith (1758–1812), United States representative from South Carolina (1789–1798)
• William Smith (South Carolina senator) (1762–1840), United States senator from South Carolina (1815–1830)
• William Smith (Virginia), United States representative from Virginia (1821–1827)
• William “Extra Billy” Smith (1797–1887), Governor of Virginia (1846–1849, 1864–1865) and Confederate general
• William Nathan Harrell Smith (1812–1889), United States representative from North Carolina (1859–1860)
• William Russell Smith (1815–1896), United States representative from Alabama (1851–1856)
• William Jay Smith (Tennessee representative) (1823–1913), United States representative from Tennessee (1869–1870)
• William E. Smith (1824–1883), Governor of Wisconsin (1878–1882)
• William Hugh Smith (1826–1899), Governor of Alabama (1868–1870)
• William Alexander Smith (1828–1888), United States representative from North Carolina (1873–1874)
• William Ephraim Smith (1829–1890), Confederate (1863–1865) and United States (1875–1881) representative from Georgia
• William Alden Smith (1859–1932), United States representative (1895–1906) and senator (1905–1918) from Michigan
• William Orlando Smith (1859–1932), United States representative from Pennsylvania (1903–1906)
• William Robert Smith (1863–1924), United States representative from Texas (1903–1916)
• William French Smith (1917–1990), United States Attorney General (1981–1985)

Other politicians

• William Smith (abolitionist) (1756–1835), dissenter and British M.P. whose constituencies included Camelford, Sudbury, and Norwich
• William Laird Smith, Australian representative for Denison from 1910 to 1922 and Minister for the Navy from 1920 to 1921
• Amor De Cosmos (1825–1897), born William Alexander Smith, Premier of British Columbia

Military persons

• William “Extra Billy” Smith (1797–1887), Governor of Virginia (1846–1849, 1864–1865) and Confederate general
• William Smith (Medal of Honor) (born 1838, date of death unknown), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Smith (Medal of Honor, 1869), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Farrar Smith, Union Army general
• William H. Smith (Medal of Honor), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Other persons

• Dr. William Smith (1728-1803), First Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
• William Smyth (1460–1514), English Bishop of Lincoln
• William Smith (poet) (15??-16??), English poet
• William Smith (1697–1769), father of John Smith, Doctor Thomas Smith, Joshua Hett Smith, and Chief Justice William Smith
• William Smith (scholar) (1711–1787), classical scholar and Dean of Chester
• William Smith (chief justice) (1728–1793), historian, Chief Justice of the Province of New York, and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec and later Lower Canada
• William Smith (geologist) (1769–1839)
• William Smith (mariner) (born c. 1775, fl. 1819–1820), British mariner and discoverer of the South Shetland Islands
• William Smith (Mormonism) (1811–1893), younger brother of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, Jr., and a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• William Smith (lexicographer) (1813–1893)
• William Robertson Smith (1846–1894), philologist, physicist, archaeologist, and Biblical critic
• Sir William Alexander Smith (Boys' Brigade) (1854–1914), founder of the Boys' Brigade
• William Smith (c. 1872–1941), Master of the SS Sauternes, English merchant seaman killed in World War II
• William Charles Smith (1877–1946), a.k.a. Razor Smith, cricket player from Surrey
• William H. Smith (boxer), South African boxer of the 1920s
• William Smith (shearer) (1896–1947), perhaps the most skilled sheep-shearer in the first half of the 20th century
• William Smith (boxer) (born 1920)
• William Smith (actor) (born 1934)
• William Jay Smith (born 1918), American poet
• William Smith (swimmer), two-time gold medalist in the 1948 Olympic games
• William John Smith (born 1942), a.k.a. Billy Smith (rugby league footballer), champion Australian rugby league halfback of 1960s and 1970s
• William Kennedy Smith (born 1960), physician and Kennedy family scion who was acquitted of rape in 1991
• William Smith (murderer), executed by the State of Ohio in 2004

Schools

• William Smith College, in Geneva, New York

See also

• Bill Smith
• Will Smith (disambiguation)
• Willie Smith
• William H. Smith
• William Henry Smith

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