John Smith
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John Smith is often regarded as the most common personal name in the United Kingdom and in some other English-speaking countries, with John being the most common First Name in the U.K. and Smith being the most common Surname. It is the archetypal pseudonym or placeholder name in those countries, and is used similarly to John Doe in the United States.
There are a number of famous people called John Smith: Template:TOCright
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Politicians
- John Smith, commissioner of the English Treasury, 1694-1695
- John Smith (1735–1824), U.S. Senator from Ohio
- John Cotton Smith (born 1765), former Governor of Connecticut
- John Valentine Smith (1824-1895), New Zealand politician
- John Smith, U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1801-1814
- John Smith, a U.S. Senator from New York, 1804-1813
- John Smith, Acting Governor of Gibraltar in 1809
- John Speed Smith, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1822?-1823
- John Smith, U.S. Representative from Vermont, 1839-1841
- John T. Smith, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1843-1844
- John Walter Smith (1845–1925), former Governor of Maryland
- John Smith, 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, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, 1924-1928
- John Smith (1938–1994), former leader of the British Labour Party
- John Smith (born 1951), a Welsh MP for the Labour Party
- John Smith, 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 (born 1952), London-based avant-garde filmmaker
- John Smith (died 1995), American actor
- John Smith (born 1957), Director of Finance, Property and Business Affairs of the BBC, 2004-
- John Smith, a British comics writer
Academic figures
- John Smith (18th century), mathematician at the University of Oxford, 1766-1797
- John Smith (1825–1910), founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
- John Cyril Smith (1922–2003), leading authority on English Criminal Law
Sports people
- John Smith (born 1949), an American football player, former placekicker with the New England Patriots
- John Smith (born 1965), head coach of Oklahoma State University wrestling program
- John T. Smith, an American professional wrestler.
Miscellaneous figures
- John Smith or John Smyth (1570-1612), Baptist minister
- John Smith of Jamestown (1580–1631), an American colonial pioneer
- John Smith (1790–1824), English missionary in the West Indies
- John Smith (born c. 1814), recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Smith, officer in the U.S. Navy, 1807-1811
- John Gordon Smith, one of the founders (1824) of Glenlivet, the first distillery in Scotland
- John Smith (died 1879), founder of the Tadcaster brewery in North Yorkshire
- John F. (Jack) Smith, Jr. (born 1939), former Chairman and CEO of General Motors
See also
- John Smyth (disambiguation)
- Edward John Smith (1850–1912), captain of the RMS Titanic
- Jonathan Bayard Smith (1742-1812), signer of the American Articles of Confederation for Pennsylvania
- John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), a geneticist, whose complete surname is Maynard Smith, not Smith.
- A song by the Punk-band Nofx is called "The Death of John Smith".