Politicians
- Peter Smith (Canadian politician) (born c. 1870s), Canadian politician involved in the Ontario Bond Scandal
- Peter Smith (diplomat) (born 1942), Governor of the Cayman Islands, 1999–2002
- Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh (born 1945), leader of Wigan council and member of the House of Lords
- Peter J. Smith (Wisconsin politician), member of the Wisconsin State Senate
- Peter Plympton Smith (born 1945), lieutenant-governor and congressman from Vermont, president of California State University, Monterey Bay
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