George Smith - Arts and Letters

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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