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Authors

• William Smith (fl. 1596), English sonneteer
• William Smith (1813–1893), British lexicographer
• William Smith (1813–1893), Scottish translator
• William Benjamin Smith (1850–1934), American Biblical scholar and professor of mathematics
• William Henry Smith (1825–1891), British statesman, politician and publisher
• William Henry Smith (1833–1896), American journalist and politician
• William Henry Smith (1846–1925), American herpetologist
• William Robertson Smith (1846–1894), Scottish orientalist
• William Smith (fl. early 1900s), British priest