A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet 7 inches (1.702 m).

Smoot or Smoots may also refer to:

Places

  • Smoots, Virginia, US
  • Smoot, West Virginia, US
  • Smoot, Wyoming, US
  • Smoots Creek, a river in Kansas
  • Smoot Rock, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica

People

  • Abraham O. Smoot (1815–1895), mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Brigham Smoot (1869–1946), Utah-Idaho Sugar Company executive and son of Abraham O. Smoot
  • Clement Smoot (1884–1963), American golfer
  • Dan Smoot (1913–2003), FBI agent and conservative political activist
  • Dawuane Smoot (born 1995), American football player
  • Fred Smoot (born 1979), American football player
  • George Smoot (1945–2025), American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and Nobel laureate in Physics, 2006
  • Homer Smoot (1878–1928), American baseball player
  • Julianna Smoot (born 1967), political fundraiser for the Democratic Party
  • L. Douglas Smoot (1934–2020), American chemical engineer
  • Lanny Smoot (born 1955), American electrical engineer, inventor
  • Mary Ellen W. Smoot (1933–2025), Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Oliver R. Smoot (born 1940), former head of ISO and ANSI, for whom the unit was named
  • Reed Smoot (1862–1941), Senator from Utah, sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and son of Abraham O. Smoot
  • Reed Smoot (cinematographer), American cinematographer
  • Roland N. Smoot (1901–1984), United States Navy vice admiral

Characters

  • Smoot, half of Canadian horror clown duo Mump and Smoot
  • Midge Smoot, a fictional character from Shining Time Station
  • Snappy Sammy Smoot, American underground comix character

Law

  • Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, 1930 US protectionist trade legislation