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 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 (Frontenac County 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 (priest) (1705–1765), Irish Anglican priest
  • 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 Spencer Smith (1812–1901), 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) (1928–2024), British Egyptologist and academic
  • Henry "Jullundur" Smith (1859–1948), Irish ophthalmologist

Sports

  • Henry Smith (discus thrower) (1955–2020), Samoan Olympic athlete
  • Henry Smith (long jumper) (born 1996), Australian long jumper
  • Henry Smith (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1957), Australian rules footballer
  • Henry Smith (footballer, born 2002), Australian rules footballer
  • Henry Tyrell-Smith (1907–1982), Irish motorcyclist
  • Henry Smith (Scottish footballer) (born 1956), Scottish football goalkeeper
  • Henry Smith (American football) (born 1983), American football player
  • Henry Smith (baseball), Negro leagues baseball player

Other people

  • Henry Smith (moneylender) (1549-1628), English businessman and charity founder
  • 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) (1835–1921), British police officer
  • Henry Smith, Death Row Records employee murdered in a drive-by shooting

Other uses

  • SS Henry B. Smith, a steel-hulled, propeller-driven lake freighter built in 1906

See also

  • Harry Smith (disambiguation)
  • Hal Smith (disambiguation)
  • Henry Smyth (disambiguation)