Henry Smith
# Henry Smith

Henry Smith may refer to:

## Politics and government

### United States

* Henry Smith (Rhode Island governor) (1766–1818), Governor of Rhode Island
* Henry Smith (Texas governor) (1788–1851), Governor of Texas
* Henry G. Smith (1807–1878), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
* Henry K. Smith (1811–1854), mayor of Buffalo, New York
* Henry Smith (speaker) (1829–1884), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
* Henry Smith (Wisconsin politician) (1838–1916), United States Representative from Wisconsin
* Henry Augustus Middleton Smith (1853–1924), United States federal judge
* Henry C. Smith (politician) (1856–1911), United States Representative from Michigan
* Henry C. Smith (judge) (1862–1932), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
* Henry P. Smith III (1911–1995), United States Representative from New York

### United Kingdom

* Henry Smith (regicide) (1620–1668), English politician and jurist
* Sir Henry Smith (Royal Navy officer) (1803–1887), naval officer
* Sir Henry Babington Smith (1863–1923), British civil servant
* Sir Henry Moncrieff Smith (1873–1951), British administrator in India
* Sir Henry Abel Smith (1900–1993), British Army officer and Governor of Queensland
* Henry Wilson Smith (1904–1978), British civil servant
* Henry Smith (British politician) (born 1969), Member of Parliament for Crawley
* Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden (born 1955), British peer

### Other countries

* Henry Gilbert Smith (1802–1886), Australian politician
* Henry Smith (Canadian politician) (1812–1868), Canadian lawyer and politician
* Henry Dolphus Smith (1819–1889), Canadian politician
* Henry Teesdale Smith (1858–1921), Australian businessman and politician
* Henry L. Smith (1898–?), Garda Síochána (Irish police force)

## Religion

* Henry Smith (preacher) (c. 1560–c. 1591), English Puritan preacher
* Henry Boynton Smith (1815–1877), American theologian
* Henry Weston Smith (1827–1876), American preacher
* Henry Preserved Smith (1847–1927), American Biblical scholar
* Henry Goodwin Smith (1860–1940), American theologian
* C. Henry Smith (1875–1948), Mennonite historian

## Science and academia

* Henry Lilley Smith (1787/89–1859), English surgeon
* Henry John Stephen Smith (1826–1883), Irish mathematician
* Henry A. Smith (1830–1915), American physician and poet
* Henry George Smith (1852–1924), Australian chemist
* Henry Louis Smith (1859–1951), president of Davidson College
* Henry Nash Smith (1906–1986), American professor, founder of American Studies
* Henry Smith (Egyptologist) (born 1928), British Egyptologist and academic

## Sports

* Henry Smith (discus thrower) (1955–2020), Samoan Olympic athlete
* Henry Smith (long jumper) (born 1996), Australian long jumper
* Henry Smith (Australian footballer) (1882–1957), Australian rules footballer
* Henry Tyrell-Smith (1907–1982), Irish motorcyclist
* Henry Smith (goalkeeper) (born 1956), Scottish football goalkeeper
* Henry Smith (American football) (born 1983), American football player
* Henry Smith (baseball), Negro leagues baseball player

## Other people

* Henry Walton Smith (1738–1792), English businessman, founder of W H Smith
* Henry Smith (attorney) (1774–?), English lawyer and amateur artist
* Henry More Smith (fl. 1814), Canadian escape artist, confidence man
* Henry Smith (Royal Navy officer) (1803–1887), British naval officer
* Henry Smith (VC) (1825–1862), English winner of the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny
* Henry Pember Smith (1854–1907), American painter
* Henry Clay Smith (1874–1945), American architect
* Henry Justin Smith (1875–1936), American newspaper editor
* Henry Smith (lynching victim) (1876–1893), American black man killed by a mob in Paris, Texas
* Henry Holmes Smith (1909–1986), American photographer
* Henry Smith (police officer) (1836-1921), British police officer

## Other uses

* SS Henry B. Smith, a steel-hulled, propeller-driven lake freighter built in 1906
