title: Henry Smith
text: # 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
  