List of taxonomic authorities named Smith

• Andrew Smith , a Scottish surgeon, naturalist, explorer and zoologist
• C. Lavett Smith
• Edgar Albert Smith, zoologist and malacologist. See also other malacologists named Smith
• Erwin Frink Smith, a bacteriologist
• Hobart Muir Smith, an American herpetologist
• Hugh McCormick Smith, an American ichthyologist
• James Leonard Brierley Smith, a South African ichthyologist
• Jane E. Smith, a diperist
• John Bernhard Smith, an American entomologist
• Malcolm Arthur Smith, a British herpetologist
• Sidney Irving Smith, an American malocologist
• William Leo Smith

• A.M. Smith
• Alexander Hanchett Smith, an American mycologist
• Annie Lorrain Smith, a British lichenologist
• Brendan J. Smith
• Charles Leonard Smith
• Clayton Orville Smith
• Clifford W. Smith, a lichenologist and botanist
• Donald J. Smith
• Elizabeth Hight Smith
• Erwin Frink Smith, a bacteriologist
• F.E.V. Smith
• G.S. Smith
• Gavin J.D. Smith
• George Smith , a mycologist
• Helen Vandervort Smith
• Hendrik Smith
• J.M.B. Smith
• James Edward Smith, an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society
• Jeffery Drew Smith
• John Smith , a botanist
• Kenneth Manley Smith
• Marion Ashton Smith
• Matthew E. Smith
• Maudy Th. Smith
• Paul Hamilton Smith
• Peter R. Smith
• R.B. Smith
• R.J. Smith
• Ralph Elliott Smith
• Ronald I. Lewis Smith
• Selena Y. Smith, a botanist
• Stanley Jay Smith
• William Gardner Smith
• Worthington George Smith, an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist and mycologist