Arts and Letters
- George Smith (artist) (1713/1714–1776), English landscape painter
- George Smith (architect) (1782–1869), southeast London architect
- George Smith (assyriologist) (1840–1876), English, first modern translator of the Epic of Gilgamesh
- George Albert Smith (film pioneer) (1864–1959), early British filmmaker
- George Gregory Smith (1865–1932), Scottish literary critic
- George H. Smith (born 1949), American libertarian and atheist author
- George H. Smith (fiction author) (1922–1996), science fiction author
- George "Harmonica" Smith (1924–1983), blues harmonica musician
- George Murray Smith (1824–1901), succeeded his father, founder of publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co
- George O. Smith (1911–1981), science fiction author
- George Washington Smith (architect) (1876–1930), American architect and painter
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