title: Smoot (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  