Michael Smith

Michael Smith may refer to:

Arts

Music

• Michael Joseph Smith (born 1938), British saxophonist (Amen Corner)
• Mike Smith (singer-songwriter) (born 1939), American singer-songwriter
• Michael Peter Smith (born 1941), American songwriter and performer
• Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) (1943–2008), English singer-songwriter (The Dave Clark Five)
• Michael S. Smith (1946–2006), American jazz drummer (Roberta Flack)
• Michael W. Smith (born 1957), American Christian singer and musician
• Mike Smith (jazz saxophonist) (born 1957), American jazz saxophonist (Frank Sinatra)
• Mike Smith (drummer) (born 1970), American drummer (Suffocation)
• Mike Smith (guitarist) (born 1973), American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
• Mike Smith (A&R man), managing director of Columbia Records UK
• Mike Smith (saxophonist), British saxophonist (The Ailerons)

Stage and screen

• Michael Bailey Smith (born 1957), American film and television actor
• Mike Smith (actor) (born 1972), Canadian who portrayed Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys
• Michael Smith (director), American film and television series director

Writing

• Michael Smith (poet) (born 1942), Irish poet and translator
• Mikey Smith (1954–1983), Jamaican dub poet and performance artist
• Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965), British novelist and screenwriter
• Michael Smith (writer) (born 1976), English writer and broadcaster
• Michael V. Smith, Canadian novelist, poet and filmmaker

Other

• Michael Smith (performance artist) (born 1951), American performance artist
• Michael S. Smith (interior designer) (born 1964), American interior designer

Journalists

• Michael Townsend Smith (born 1935), theatre critic for The Village Voice, music and dance critic for the Santa Barbara News-Press; also playwright
• Mike Smith (television presenter) (born 1955), British television and radio presenter
• Michael Smyth (born 1972 or 1973), South Australian television newsreader
• Michael Smith (sports reporter) (born 1979), American sports reporter for The Boston Globe and ESPN
• Michael Smith (newspaper reporter), reporter on defence issues at the Sunday Times who obtained and published the Downing Street Memos
• Michael David Smith, American sportwriter and blogger
• Michael Smith (journalist), American journalist for Bloomberg News

Politicians

• M. Hoke Smith (1855–1931), American politician
• Mickey Smyth (1921–1981), Irish trade unionist and Labour Party politician, Mayor of Galway 1971–1972
• Michael Smith (Irish politician) (born 1940), Republic of Ireland politician
• Carl Michael Smith (born 1944), former Oklahoma Secretary of Energy
• Mike Smith (Louisiana politician) (born 1948), former Louisiana state senator from Winnfield
• Michael Keith Smith (1953–2010), chairman of United Kingdom pressure group, the Conservative Democratic Alliance
• Michael K. Smith (Illinois politician) (born 1966), member of the Illinois House of Representatives
• Michael K. Smith (Vermont), secretary of human services for the state of Vermont, 2006–2008
• Mike Smith (Nova Scotia politician), mayor of Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sports

American football

• Mike Smith (American football coach) (born 1959), head coach of the Atlanta Falcons
• Mike Smith (linebacker) (born 1981), former NFL linebacker, current co-defensive coordinator for the Texas Tech Red Raiders
• Michael Smith (running back) (born 1988), American football running back
• Michael Smith (American football coach), American football coach in the United States

Association Football

• Mike Smith (footballer born 1935), English defender for Derby County and Bradford City
• Mike Smith (football manager) (born 1938), manager of Egypt and Wales national football teams and Hull City A.F.C.
• Mick Smyth (born 1940), Irish football player
• Michael Smith (footballer born 1988), Northern Irish footballer who plays for Bristol Rovers
• Michael Smith (footballer born 1991), English professional footballer who plays for Charlton Athletic
• Michael Smith (footballer), Irish soccer player

Baseball

• Mike Smith (1890s outfielder) (1868–1945), MLB outfielder from 1886–1901
• Mike Smith (1920s outfielder) (1904–1981), MLB outfielder who played in the 1926 season
• Mike Smith (1984–1989 pitcher) (born 1961), National League pitcher from 1984–89
• Mike Smith (1989–1990 pitcher) (born 1963), American League pitcher from 1989–90
• Mike Smith (infielder) (born 1969), Rotary Smith Award winner
• Mike Smith (2000s pitcher) (born 1977), MLB pitcher in the 2000s

Hockey

• Mike Smith (ice hockey b. 1945), former general manager for the Winnipeg Jets and the Chicago Blackhawks
• Mike Smith (ice hockey b. 1982), goaltender for the Phoenix Coyotes

Basketball

• Mike Smith (basketball, born 1963), former professional basketball player from the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg
• Michael Smith (basketball, born 1965), former pro player and current Los Angeles Clippers television and radio commentator
• Michael Smith (basketball, born 1972), former NBA player from Washington, D.C.
• Mike Smith (basketball, born 1976), professional basketball player from West Monroe, Louisiana

Cricket

• M. J. K. Smith (born 1933), English cricketer and rugby union player
• Michael J. Smith (cricketer) (1942–2004), cricketer who played for Middlesex CCC and England
• Michael Jonathon Smith (born 1966), Scottish cricketer
• Andrew Michael Smith (born 1967), Gloucestershire CCC and England cricketer
• Michael Smith (Oxfordshire cricketer), English cricketer

Rugby league

• Michael Smith (rugby league born 1976), rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s for New Zealand, Canterbury Bulldogs, Castleford Tigers, Hull F.C., and Hull Kingston Rovers
• Michael Smith (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s for Featherstone Rovers
• Mike Smith (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s who played for Great Britain, and England, and Hull Kingston Rovers

Other sports

• Michael Smith (Australian footballer) (born 1959), former Australian rules footballer
• Michael Smith (wrestler) (born 1963), American professional wrestler
• Mike E. Smith (born 1965), American jockey
• Mike Smith (athlete) (born 1967), Canadian silver medalist in the decathlon, at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics
• Michael Smith (darts player) (born 1990), PDC dart player

Science

• Michael Smith (chemist) (1932–2000), Canadian Nobel-prize winning chemist
• Michael J. Smith (astronaut) (1945–1986), American astronaut
• Michael F Smith (born 1948), Anglo-American computer scientist and businessman
• Michael E. Smith (born 1953), American archaeologist and Mesoamerica scholar
• Michael D. Smith (computer scientist), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
• Michael D. Smith (economist), information technology and marketing professor

Others

• Michael Smith (judge) (1740–1809), Irish judge
• M. G. Smith (Michael G. Smith, 1921–1993), Jamaican poet and social anthropologist
• Michael Smith (bishop) (born 1940), Catholic Bishop of Meath, Ireland
• Mike Sharwood Smith (born 1942), linguist
• Michael John Smith (espionage) (born 1948), British Cold War spy
• Michael A. Smith (born 1954), philosopher at Princeton University
• Michael Acton Smith (born 1973 or 1974), CEO and founder of online games developer and entertainment company Mind Candy
• Michael Smith (chef), Canadian celebrity chef
• Sgt. Michael J. Smith, a U.S. army dog handler convicted for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison
• Valentine Michael Smith, chief character in Stranger in a Strange Land