Alexander Smith is the name of:
- Alexander Smith (poet) (1830–1867), Scottish poet
- Alexander Smith (chemist) (1865–1922), American chemist and author
- Alexander Smith (bishop) (1694–1767), Roman Catholic bishop
- Alexander Gordon Smith (born 1979), British author of books for children and young adults
- Alexander Hale Smith (1838–1909), religious leader
- Alexander H. Smith (1904–1986), American mycologist
- Ross Alexander (Alexander Ross Smith, 1907–1937), actor
- Alexander Howland Smith, Scottish document forger in the 1880s
- Alexander Kennedy Smith (1824–1881), Scottish/Australian engineer and politician
- Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948), "Sandy", writer and professor of medical law
- Alexander Mortimer Smith (1818–1895), soldier, businessman and political figure
- Alexander O. Smith (born 1973), English/Japanese translator and writer
- Alexander Wilson Smith (1856–1913), farmer and political figure in Ontario, Canada
- Alexander Lockwood Smith (born 1948), New Zealand politician
- John Adams (mutineer) (née Alexander Smith, 1768–1829), mutineer on the H.M.S. Bounty
- Alexander S. Smith (1868–1916), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Sandy Smith (Alexander Smith, born 1983), Scottish artist
- Alexander Smith (athlete) (born 1988), English hammer thrower
Famous quotes containing the words alexander smith and/or smith:
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
—Alexander Smith (1830–1867)
“The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)