Profile of John Smith on Famous Like Me

John Smith is often regarded as the most common personal name in the United Kingdom and in some other English-speaking countries, with John having often been the most common first name in the U.K. and Smith being the most common surname in both the U.K. and the United States. It is the archetypal pseudonym or placeholder name in those countries, and is used similarly to John Doe in the U.S.

There are a number of famous people called John Smith:

Politicians

• John Smith (English statesman), commissioner of the English Treasury, 1694–1695
• John Smith (Ohio Senator) (1735–1824)
• John Cotton Smith (born 1765), former Governor of Connecticut
• John Valentine Smith (1824–1895), New Zealand politician
• John Smith (Virginia), U.S. Representative, 1801–1814
• John Smith (New York), U.S. Senator, 1804–1813
• John Smith (Gibraltar), Acting Governor in 1809
• John Speed Smith, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1822–1823
• John Smith (Vermont), U.S. Representative from Vermont, 1839–1841
• John T. Smith, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1843–1844
• John Lyman Smith, a member of the Utah territorial legislature, and son John Smith (1781-1854), one of the Mormon Presiding Patriarchs
• John Walter Smith (1845–1925), former Governor of Maryland
• John Smith (Canadian politician), member of the Parliament of Ontario, 1867–1871
• John Quincy Smith, U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1873–1875
• John B. Smith, former Governor of New Hampshire, 1893–1895
• John Smith (Detroit mayor) 1924–1928
• John Smith (UK politician) (1938–1994), former leader of the British Labour Party
• John Smith (Welsh politician) (born 1951), Labour Party
• John Smith (Illinois), Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
• John Armstrong Smith, U.S. Representative from Ohio

Cultural figures

• John Christopher Smith, 18th century composer
• John Stafford Smith (1750–1836), composer of the tune for "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• John Orrin Smith (19th century), woodcutter
• John Smith (filmmaker) (born 1952), London-based avant-garde filmmaker
• John Smith (actor) (died 1995), American actor
• John Smith (BBC) (born 1957), Director of Finance, Property and Business Affairs of the BBC, 2004-
• John Smith (comics), a British comics writer
• John Smith (poet), British poet, co-writer with Michael Garrick of jazz–choral works
• John Francis Smith (1868–1941), American painter and art teacher

Academic figures

• John Smith (mathematician) (18th century), mathematician at the University of Oxford, 1766–1797
• John Smith (dentist) (1825–1910), founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
• John Cyril Smith (1922–2003), leading authority on English Criminal Law

Sports figures

• John Smith (American football player) (born 1949), former placekicker with the New England Patriots
• John Smith (boxer), a boxer who lost an eight round decision to future world champion Maurice Hope in 1973
• John Smith (wrestler) (born 1965), head coach of Oklahoma State University wrestling program
• John T. Smith, an American professional wrestler.

Religious figures

• John Smith or John Smyth (1570–1612), Baptist minister
• John Smith (missionary) (1790–1824), English missionary in the West Indies
• John Smith (1781-1854), an uncle of Joseph Smith, Jr. and eventual Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• John Smith (1832-1911), a nephew of Joseph Smith, Jr. and another eventual Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Miscellaneous figures

• John Smith of Jamestown (1580–1631), an American colonial pioneer
• John Smith (VC) (born c. 1814), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Smith (naval officer), U.S. Navy, 1807–1811
• John Gordon Smith, one of the founders (1824) of Glenlivet, the first distillery in Scotland
• John Smith (brewer) (died 1879), founder of the Tadcaster brewery in North Yorkshire
• John F. Smith, Jr. (born 1939), former Chairman and CEO of General Motors
• John Smith (police officer), Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1991–1995

Fictional characters

• John Smith is the main character in Stephen King's novel The Dead Zone.
• Dr Who, who, when played by Jon Pertwee, sometimes gave his name as "Dr John Smith".

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