John Smith

John Smith is a common personal name. It is also commonly used as a placeholder name and pseudonym, and is sometimes used in the United States and the United Kingdom as a term for an average person.

Notable people with the name include:

People

In chronological order.

Academics

Arts

  • John Berryman (1914–1972), originally John Allyn Smith, American poet

Business

  • John Smith (banker) (1797–1866), Scottish banker and philanthropist, working in England
  • John Russell Smith (1810–1894), English bookseller and bibliographer
  • John J. Smith (1820–1906), African-American abolitionist, Underground Railroad contributor and politician
  • John Smith (brewer) (1824–1879), Tadcaster brewery founder in North Yorkshire, UK
  • John K. Smith (1805–1845), founder of SmithKline as in GlaxoSmithKline, the leading pharmaceutical business

Crime

  • John Smith (housebreaker) (1661–after 1727), London housebreaker who evaded hanging thrice and was eventually transported to Virginia
  • John Smith (died 1835) (1795–1835), one of the last two Englishmen who were hanged for sodomy in 1835
  • John Eldon Smith (1930–1983), convicted of the murders of Ronald and Juanita Akins
  • John Smith (murderer) (born 1951), American convicted murderer who killed his first wife, and has been accused of killing his second wife who disappeared in 1991
  • John Fludder Smith (2005-present), Known as the Pimp of Durham

Law

Military

Politicians

Australia

Canada

  • John W. Y. Smith (1869–1936), member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

United Kingdom

  • John Benjamin Smith (1796–1879), British Liberal MP for Stirling Burghs 1847–1852 and Stockport 1852–1874

United States

  • John Y. T. Smith (1831–1903), three time member of Arizona Territorial Legislature

Other countries

Religion

Sports

American football

Association football

Baseball

Basketball

Cricket

Rugby

Other sports

  • Johnboy Smith (John Charles Smith, born 1989), British parathlete and wheelchair racer

Other

Fictional characters

See also