People
Sports figures
* J. D. Smith (fullback, born 1936), American football player * James Smith (Australian rules footballer) (1899–1974), Australian rules footballer for Richmond Football Club * James Smith (boxer) (born 1953), American boxer, nicknamed "Bonecrusher" * James Smith (footballer, born 1844) (1844–1876), Scottish footballer, played in the first official international football match * James Smith (footballer, born 1873) (1873–?), footballer * James Smith (footballer, born 1908) (1908–1956), English left back who played for Doncaster Rovers, Lincoln City and Bradford City * James Smith (footballer, born 1930) (1930–2022), English footballer for Chelsea and Leyton Orient * James Smith (footballer, born 1985), English football player (Southport) * James Smith (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1922), Scottish football player (Port Vale) * James Smith (sports media figure) (born 1959), American boxer and host of ''In This Corner'' * James Aikman Smith (1859–1931), Scottish rugby union player and referee * James Crosbie Smith (1894–1980), English cricketer * James R. Smith (1904–1986), American water polo player and coach * Steve Smith (ice hockey, born April 30, 1963), Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player * James W. Smith (horse trainer) (1908–1969), American horse trainer * James Smith (Leicestershire cricketer) (born 1977), English cricketer * James Smith (New South Wales cricketer) (1880–1958), Australian cricketer * James Smith (South Australia cricketer) (born 1988), Australian cricketer * James Smith (Kent cricketer) (fl. 1792–1796), English cricketer * James Smith (New Zealand cricketer) (1891–1971), New Zealand cricketer * James Smith (sport shooter) (1931–2021), American Olympic shooter *Military personnel
* James Smith (Medal of Honor, 1864) (1826–1881), Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War * James Smith (Medal of Honor, 1872) (1838–?), Medal of Honor recipient for peacetime actions * James A. Smith (Medal of Honor) (1880–1944), Medal of Honor recipient in the Boxer Rebellion *Entertainers
* James Prince (James Andre Smith, born 1965), American founder of Texas-based Rap-A-Lot Records * James Smith, American guitarist for the band Underoath * James Smith, British singer and member of Hadouken! * James Smith, British singer and member Yard Act * James Smith (born 1999), finalist in '' Britain's Got Talent'' * James Smith (actor) (born 1948), English actor * James Marcus Smith, singer, better known as P. J. Proby * James Thomas Smith, British musician and member of The xx, better known asScientists and academics
* James Smith (anaesthetist) (1917–1986), Scottish anaesthetist * James Smith (Scottish botanist) (1763–1848), Scottish botanist * James Smith (university principal) (1681–1736), Scottish principal of the University of Edinburgh, 1732–1736 * James Ernest Smith (1881–1973), founder and first president of the National Radio Institute in Washington, D.C. * James Smith of Jordanhill (1782–1867), Scottish merchant, antiquarian, architect, geologist and biblical critic * James Cuthbert Smith (born 1954), Director of Research at the Francis Crick Institute in London *Politicians, judges, and civil servants
United States
* James Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (1720–1806), Pennsylvania delegate who signed the United States Declaration of Independence * James Strudwick Smith (1790–1859), U.S. Representative from North Carolina * James Smith, 19th-century Canadian Cree Chief, founder of the James Smith First Nation in Saskatchewan * James W. Smith Jr. (born 1943), American judge, Chief of the Supreme Court of Mississippi * James Y. Smith (1809–1876), American, governor of Rhode Island * James Monroe Smith (Georgia planter) (1839–1915), planter and state legislator in Georgia, U.S. * James M. Smith (–1898), New York City politician and judge * James Smith Jr. (1851–1927), U.S. senator from New Jersey * James A. Smith (mayor), first mayor of the city of Ridgefield, Washington * James Smith (Kansas politician), Kansas secretary of state * James H. Smith Jr. (1909–1982), U.S. assistant secretary of the Navy (AIR), 1953–1956, sailor and Olympic champion * James Horace Smith (1852–1931), mayor of Orlando * James Peyton Smith (1925–2006), Louisiana politician * James Vernon Smith (1926–1973), U.S. representative from Oklahoma * James C. Smith (politician) (born 1940), former Florida attorney general * James T. Smith Jr. (born 1942), American, county executive of Baltimore County, Maryland * James E. Smith (politician, born 1930) (1930–2020), comptroller of the currency of the United States, 1973–1976 * James E. Smith (Montana politician) (born 1948) * James E. Smith Jr. (born 1967), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives * James Smith (New Mexico politician), member of the New Mexico House of Representatives * James F. Smith (Michigan politician) (1923–2007), member of the Michigan House of RepresentativesCanada
* James Smith (1806–1868), lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec * James Smith (Canada West politician) (1811–1874), lawyer, judge and politician in Canada West * James Sinclair Smith (1816–1897), Scottish-born Canadian politician * James Edward Smith (politician) (1831–1892), mayor of Toronto * James A. Smith (Canadian politician) (1911–1993), Canadian member of parliament * James Smith (Yukon politician) (1919–2017), former commissioner of the Yukon Territory, 1966–1976Australia
* James Smith (New South Wales politician) (1887–1962), former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * James Thorneloe Smith (1825–1902), engineer and politician in Queensland, Australia * James Francis Smith (politician) (1844–1908), New South Wales politician * James Joynton Smith (1858–1943), Australian politician * James MacCallum Smith (1868–1939), Australian politician, newspaper proprietor and stock breeder * James Norton Smith (1846–1911), Tasmanian politician * James Vinton Smith (1897–1952), Australian politicianUnited Kingdom
* James Smith (1587–1667), alderman of the City of London * James Masterton-Smith (1878–1938), British civil servant * James Parker Smith (1854–1929), British member of parliament for Glasgow Partick, 1890–1906Other countries
* James Francis Smith (1859–1928), U.S. administrator, governor of the Philippines, 1906–1909 * James Skivring Smith (1825–1892), U.S.-born vice president, 1870–1872, and interim president, 1871–1872, of Liberia * James Skivring Smith Jr. (1891–1950), Liberian politician * James Alfred Smith (1913–1993), British diplomat, chief justice of the BahamasReligious scholars and leaders
* James Smith (archdeacon of Barnstaple) (died 1667), archdeacon of Barnstaple * James Smith (archdeacon of Connor) (1800–1865), Anglican priest in Ireland * James Smith (vicar-apostolic of the Northern District) (1645–1711), English Roman Catholic vicar-apostolic * James Smith (moderator) (1803–1897), Church of Scotland minister and moderator of the General Assembly *Other
* James Smith (American physician) (1771-1841), American physician and vaccine expert * James Smith, a character in the film '' 8 Mile'' * James Smith (writer) (1775–1839), British humorist * James Smith (gardener) (died 1789), gardener who journeyed to New Holland (Australia) in 1789 * James Smith (architect, died 1731) (c. 1645–1731), Scottish architect * James Smith (Glasgow architect) (1808–1863), Scottish architect and father of Madeleine Smith * James Smith (inventor) (1789–1850), British * James Smith (journalist) (1820–1910), Australian journalist *Other uses
* James Smith Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada ** James Smith 100, an Indian reserve * James Smith & Sons, an umbrella shop in London * Sir James Smith's School, a secondary school in Camelford, North Cornwall, EnglandSee also
* Epitaph for James Smith, a 1785 satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns * Jim Smith (disambiguation) * Jimmy Smith (disambiguation) * Jamie Smith (disambiguation) * James Smyth (disambiguation) {{hndis, Smith, James