James Smith

James Smith may refer to:

Sports figures

* James Smith (boxer) (born 1953), American boxer, nicknamed "Bonecrusher"
* James Smith (footballer born October 1985), English footballer playing for Stockport County
* James Crosbie Smith (1894–1980), English cricketer
* James L. Smith III (born 1967), American football player
* James R. Smith (born 1959), American water polo player and coach
* James Stephen Smith (born 1963), Scottish born Canadian ice hockey player
* James Smith (sports media figure) (born 1959), Host of "In This Corner" and a former American boxer
* Jim Smith (footballer) (born 1940), English football (soccer) player and manager

Military personnel

* James Smith (VC) (1871–1976), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Jamie Smith (soldier), U.S. Army Ranger who served in Mogadishu, Somalia
* James Smith (frontiersman) (ca. 1737–1814), American leader of the "Black Boys", captive of Caughnawagas for five years, colonel in American Revolution, Kentucky legislator
* James Alexander Smith (fl. 1914), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
* James Floyd Smith (1884–1956), American test pilot and instructor for Glenn Martin
* James Robert Smith (pilot) (1891–??), Canadian WWI pilot
* James Thomas Smith (1908–1990), Rear Admiral, US Navy

Entertainers

* James Smith (American musician) (born 1982), American guitarist for the band Underoath
* James Smith (English musician) (born 1982), English drummer for the band Season's End
* James Dallas Smith (born 1974), Canadian actor and musician
* James Todd Smith (born 1968), American rapper better known as LL Cool J
* James Smith, known as James Prince, American, founder of Houston, Texas-based Rap-A-Lot Records
* James Smith (singer) British vocals/songwriter front man for the band Hadouken!

cientists and academics

* James Smith (educator), Scottish principal of Edinburgh University, 1732–1736
* James Edward Smith (1759–1828), English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society
* James George Smith (1819–1849), American founder of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity
* James K. A. Smith (born 1970), Canadian born Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College
* James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968), South African ichthyologist

Politicians, judges, and civil servants

* James Smith (delegate) (1719–1806), signed the United States Declaration of Independence for Pennsylvania
* James Smith (Chief) Nineteenth Century Canadian Cree Chief, Treaty Six signatory, and founder of the James Smith First Nation in Saskatchewan.
* James Smith, Jr. (1851–1927), U.S. Senator from New Jersey
* James Smith (Canadian politician), former commissioner of the Yukon Territory, 1966–1976
* James A. Smith, Canadian Member of Parliament
* James E. Smith, Jr. (born c. 1968), a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
* James Francis Smith (1859–1928), U.S. administrator, governor of the Philippines, 1906–1909
* James MacCallum Smith (1868–1939), Australian politician, newspaper proprietor and stock breeder
* James Masterton-Smith (1878–1938), British civil servant
* James Sinclair Smith (1816–?), Scottish born Canadian politician
* James Skivring Smith (1825–?), U.S. born Vice President, 1870–1872, and interim President, 1871-1872, of Liberia
* James Strudwick Smith (1790–1859), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
* James T. Smith, Jr. (born 1942), American, County Executive of Baltimore County, Maryland
* James Vernon Smith (1926–1973), US Representative from Oklahoma
* James W. Smith, Jr., American, Chief of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
* James Y. Smith, American, former Governor of Rhode Island

Other

* James Smith (architect) (c.1645–1731), Scottish architect
* James Smith (inventor) (1789-1850), Scottish inventor of a reaping machine, a subsoil plough and the first endless chain of flats for carding
* James Smith (journalist) (1820–1910), Australian journalist
* James Smith (miner) (1827–1897), Australian miner (Tasmania)
* James J. Smith, American, retired FBI Supervisory Special agent
* James McCune Smith (1813–1865), African-American doctor
* James Milton Smith (1823–1890), American Civil War Confederate colonel, and later Governor of Georgia
* James Smith (horticulturalist), British nineteenth century gardener and writer
* James Robert Smith (born 1957), American author
* James Thorne Smith (1892–1934), American author of humorous fantasy fiction
* Jim Smith (animator) (born 1954), American animator and musician

Others

* Albert James Smith (1822–1883), New Brunswick politician and opponent of Canadian confederation
* Douglas James Smith (1873–1949), English cricketer and umpire
* Harlan James Smith (1924–1991), American astronomer
* James and Horace Smith (1775–1839), English authors of the "Rejected Addresses"
* James George Smith Neill (1810–1857), British soldier
* James Smith Bush (1825–1889), American attorney and Episcopal priest and an ancestor of the Bush political family
* James Smith McDonnell (1899–1980), American aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

ee also

* Epitaph for James Smith, a satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns
* Jim Smith (disambiguation page)
* Jimmy Smith (disambiguation page)
* Jamie Smith (disambiguation page)