Editing William Smith (section)

==Academics==
* [[William Smith (Master of Clare College, Cambridge)]] (1556–1615), English academic
* [[William Smith (antiquary)]] (c. 1653–1735), English antiquary and historian of University College, Oxford
* [[William Smith (scholar)]] (1711–1787), English classical scholar and Anglican Dean of Chester
* [[William Smith (Episcopal priest)]] (1727–1803), Scottish-born first provost of University of Pennsylvania
* [[William Pitt Smith]] (1760–1796), American physician, educator and theological writer
* [[William Andrew Smith]] (1802–1870), American college president and clergyman
* [[William Smith (lexicographer)]] (1813–1893), English editor and publisher of dictionaries
* [[William Robertson Smith]] (1846–1894), Scottish philologist, physicist, archaeologist and Biblical critic
* [[William Benjamin Smith]] (1850–1934), American professor of mathematics at Tulane University
* [[William Ramsay Smith]] (1859–1937), Australian anthropologist
* [[William George Smith]] (1866–1918), Scottish psychologist
* [[William Hall Smith]] (1866–after 1920), President of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1916–1920
* [[William Cunningham Smith]] (1871–1943), American academic of English literature, university administrator and writer
* [[William Roy Smith]] (1876–1938), American academic historian
* [[William Charles Smith]] (1881–1972), English musicologist
* [[William Newton-Smith]] (1943–2023), Anglo-Canadian philosopher of science
* [[Willie W. Smith]], American physiologist