Smoot (disambiguation)
# Smoot (disambiguation)

A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet 7 inches (1.702 m).

Smoot or Smoots may also refer to:

## Places

* Smoots, Virginia, US
* Smoot, West Virginia, US
* Smoot, Wyoming, US
* Smoots Creek, a river in Kansas
* Smoot Rock, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica

## People

* Abraham O. Smoot (1815–1895), mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
* Brigham Smoot (1869–1946), Utah-Idaho Sugar Company executive and son of Abraham O. Smoot
* Clement Smoot (1884–1963), American golfer
* Dan Smoot (1913–2003), FBI agent and conservative political activist
* Dawuane Smoot (born 1995), American football player
* Fred Smoot (born 1979), American football player
* George Smoot (born 1945), astrophysics scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nobel prize laureate in Physics, 2006
* Homer Smoot (1878–1928), American baseball player
* Julianna Smoot, political fundraiser for the Democratic Party
* L. Douglas Smoot (1934–2020), American chemical engineer
* Lanny Smoot (born c. 1955), American electrical engineer, inventor
* Mary Ellen W. Smoot (born 1933), Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Oliver R. Smoot (born 1940), former head of ISO and ANSI, for whom the unit was named
* Reed Smoot (1862–1941), Senator from Utah, sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and son of Abraham O. Smoot
* Reed Smoot (cinematographer), American cinematographer
* Roland N. Smoot (1901–1984), United States Navy vice admiral
* William Smoot (c. 1848–1938), American Baptist preacher

### Characters

* Smoot, half of Canadian horror clown duo Mump and Smoot
* Midge Smoot, a fictional character from Shining Time Station
* Snappy Sammy Smoot, American underground comix character

## Law

* Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, 1930 US protectionist trade legislation
