Paul Smith
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In music:
- Paul Smith (music industry)Paul Smith (music industry)Paul Smith is probably best known as the founder and manager of Blast First, the British alternative record label that released artists such as Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, Big Black and Dinosaur Jr. in the UK. He continued to manage the artists and work in the music industry when Blast First...
, British record label manager and art event producer - Paul Smith (composer)Paul Smith (composer)Paul J. Smith was an Academy Award-winning American music composer. He was born in Calumet, Michigan. Smith spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike...
, prominent composer of American film music - Paul Smith (pianist)Paul Smith (pianist)Paul Smith , is a jazz pianist. He has performed in various genres of jazz, most typically bebop. However, he has also performed in cool jazz, swing music, and traditional pop.He was born in San Diego, California...
(born 1922), Los Angeles jazz pianist - Paul Smith (musician)Paul Smith (musician)Paul Smith is the singer for the British indie rock group, Maxïmo Park.-Biography:...
, vocalist and songwriter of British indie rock band Maxïmo Park - Paul Smith (christian music)Paul Smith (christian music)Paul Charles Smith is a Contemporary Christian Music performer and songwriter. He is best remembered for his early years with influential gospel group, The Imperials. Paul spent four years with that group, recording four albums and one live video. Smith was inducted into the Gospel Music...
, Christian musician - Paul Reed SmithPaul Reed SmithPaul Reed Smith , is a luthier and the founder and owner of PRS Guitars.Smith is originally from Bowie, Maryland. He made his first guitar while at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and continued to build guitars after he finished college, making them one at a time, one a month...
, luthier and founder/owner of PRS Guitars
In writing:
- Paul Smith (Irish writer)Paul Smith (Irish writer)Paul Smith was an Irish writer and playwright.-Biography:Smith was born near Charlemont Street in Dublin, the son of a wheelwright. He became involved with the Gate Theatre at 16 years of age. In Ireland he worked as a costume maker and designer in the Abbey and Gate Theatres in Dublin...
(1920-1997), Irish writer and playwright - Paul Smith (writer)Paul Smith (writer)Paul Smith is a British television writer best known as creator of the Dawn French series Murder Most Horrid , and as co-creator of the Mel Smith series Colin's Sandwich....
, wrote episodes of The Brittas Empire - Paul Girard SmithPaul Girard SmithPaul Girard Smith was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 90 films between 1926 and 1955.Smith started writing musical revues at the age of ten. He joined the Marines for World War I and while still in Germany wrote and directed the Sixth Marine Revue in the Rhine Occupation Area...
(1894-1968), American screenwriter - Dale Smith (writer), pseudonym of Paul Dale Smith, writer and playwright
- Paul Smith (blogger)Paul Smith (blogger)Paul Smith is a British blogger, writer and former radio executive. An advocate of social media, Smith coined the phrase "twitchhiking" in February 2009 when he travelled around the world using the social media network Twitter.-Radio career:...
, writer and creator of the Twitchhiker Project - Paul Smith (academic)Paul Smith (academic)Paul Smith is an academic and cultural critic. He holds a B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D in American Studies from the University of Kent. He is currently Professor of Cultural Studies at in Fairfax, Virginia, United States...
professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University
In film and television:
- Paul Smith (Australian actor)Paul Smith (Australian actor)Paul Smith is a former Australian actor, most known for his role as the original Simon in the television sitcom Hey Dad...!, and as Steve in the children's series The Henderson Kids....
(born 1968), starred in Australian sitcom Hey Dad...! - Paul J. Smith (director)Paul J. Smith (director)Paul J. Smith was an American animator and director.Smith worked for the Walter Lantz studio for much of his career, first starting as an animator, and then as a director. He also animated at the Warner Bros...
, American animator and director, best known for his work in Woody Woodpecker cartoons - Paul L. SmithPaul L. SmithPaul L. Smith is an American character actor. Burly, bearded, and imposing, he has appeared in films and occasionally on TV since the 1970s, generally playing "heavies" and bad guys...
(born 1939), Hollywood television actor
In Association football:
- Paul Smith (footballer born 1962)Paul Smith (footballer born 1962)Paul Smith is a Scottish former football player and manager.After briefly being attached to both Dundee and Dundee United, Smith made his senior breakthrough with Raith Rovers in 1983...
, Scottish football player and manager - Paul Smith (footballer born 1964)Paul Smith (footballer born 1964)Paul Michael Smith is a former English footballer.-Playing career:Smith played for Sheffield United and spent time on loan at Stockport County before joining Port Vale for £10,000 in July 1986. He played 54 games for the Vale before being sold on to Lincoln City for £40,000 in September 1987...
, English football player with Sheffield United and Port Vale - Paul Smith (footballer born 1971)Paul Smith (footballer born 1971)Paul William Smith is an English professional footballer.Smith was born in East Ham, London and began his career as a trainee with Southend United, turning professional in 1990...
, ex-Gillingham and Brentford player - Paul Smith (footballer born 1976), former Lincoln City midfielder, currently with Glapwell
- Paul Smith (footballer born 1979), goalkeeper currently at Nottingham Forest
- Paul Smith (footballer born 1991)Paul Smith (footballer born 1991)Paul John Smith is an English footballer who plays for Barrow.-Career:A product of Chester's youth policy, Smith made his debut in The Football League as a 17 year old substitute against Rochdale on 3 February 2009. He went on to make four further substitute appearances for the club during their...
, current player with Barrow - Ian Paul SmithIan Paul SmithIan Paul Smith , known as Paul Smith, is an English footballer who played in the Football League for Burnley, Oldham Athletic, Hartlepool United and Sheffield Wednesday.-Career:...
(born 1976), former Burnley, Hartlepool United and Sheffield Wednesday midfielder, currently with Sheffield F.C.
In American football:
- Paul Smith (defensive end)Paul Smith (defensive end)Paul Edward Smith was a collegiate and professional American football defensive end. Smith was selected in the 1968 Common Draft by the American Football League's Denver Broncos and played in the National Football League for the Broncos and Washington Redskins.Smith wore number 70 with the...
(born 1945), former NFL defensive end - Paul Smith (fullback)Paul Smith (fullback)Paul Smith is an American football player who currently is a free agent in the National Football League.-High school years:...
(born 1978), current NFL fullback - Paul Smith (quarterback)Paul Smith (quarterback)Paul Smith is an American professional gridiron football quarterback. He was released before training camp by the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Tulsa.-High school career:...
(born 1984), former collegiate quarterback for the University of Tulsa
In other sports:
- Paul Smith (boxer) (born 1982), Middleweight fighter from Liverpool, fought on the third series of The Contender
- Paul Smith (cricketer)Paul Smith (cricketer)Paul Andrew Smith born April 15, 1964 in Gosforth, Northumberland is a former English cricketer who played for Warwickshire from 1982 to 1996....
, former allrounder for Warwickshire - Paul Smith (first baseman)Paul Smith (first baseman)Paul Leslie Smith is a retired American professional baseball player, a first baseman and outfielder who appeared in 223 games in Major League Baseball over three seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.Smith batted and threw left-handed, and stood tall while weighing...
(born 1931), American baseball first baseman - Paul Smith (outfielder)Paul Smith (outfielder)Paul Stoner Smith was a Major League Baseball outfielder. Smith played in 10 games in the 1916 season with the Cincinnati Reds. He had 20 hits in 44 at-bats with a .227 batting average....
(1888-1958), American baseball outfielder - Paul Smith (rugby league) British rugby league player
In other fields:
- M. Paul SmithM. Paul SmithM. Paul Smith is a British palaeontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham. He is head of the University's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Director of its Lapworth Museum of Geology...
, British paleontologist - Paul Smith (artist)Paul Smith (artist)Paul Smith was an American typewriter artist.-Early life:Smith was born in 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He suffered from severe spastic cerebral palsy from an early age...
(born 1921), the father of ASCII art - Paul Smith (fashion designer)Paul Smith (fashion designer)Sir Paul Smith jr, RDI, is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear. He is both commercially successful and highly respected within the fashion industry....
(born 1946), British fashion designer - Paul Smith (comics)Paul Smith (comics)Paul Smith is an American comic book artist.-Early life:Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but only lived there three days. His father was a U.S. Naval aviator, and the family moved several times during his childhood...
, comic book artist - Paul Smith (hotelier) (1825-1912), born Apollos Smith, after whom the hotel, village, and college are named:
- Paul Smith's HotelPaul Smith's HotelPaul Smith's Hotel, formally known as the Saint Regis House, was founded in 1859 by Apollos Smith in the town of Brighton, Franklin County, New York in what would become the village of Paul Smiths; it was one of the first wilderness resorts in Adirondacks...
was a famous hotel in the Adirondacks in New York - Paul Smiths, New YorkPaul Smiths, New YorkPaul Smiths is a hamlet in the Town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, on Lower Saint Regis Lake, in the Adirondacks, 10 miles north of Saranac Lake, located at 44°26' North 74°15' West....
is a village in Franklin County, New York - Paul Smith's CollegePaul Smith's CollegePaul Smith's College is a private college and is the only four year institution of higher education located within the boundary of the Adirondack State Park in Upstate New York...
is a small college in Paul Smiths, New York
- Paul Smith's Hotel
- Paul A. SmithPaul A. SmithPaul Althaus Smith was an American mathematician. His name occurs in two significant conjectures in geometric topology: the Smith conjecture, which is now a theorem, and the Hilbert-Smith conjecture, still open...
, mathematician - Paul M. SmithPaul M. SmithPaul March Smith is an American attorney who has argued many important cases, most notably Lawrence v. Texas. He is currently a partner at Jenner & Block’s Washington, DC office and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.-Education:...
, American attorney, argued "Lawrence v. Texas" - Paul M. Smith (photographer)Paul M. Smith (photographer)Paul M. Smith is a photographer and course director for the within the Coventry University Department of Media and Communication.Smith originally studied Fine Art, between 1991 and 1995 at Coventry University and as part of his course he undertook a research project into contemporary art which...
, photographer - Paul Ray SmithPaul Ray SmithPaul Ray Smith was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Operation Iraqi Freedom...
(1969-2003), US Army Sergeant First Class, Medal of Honor recipient - Paul Smith, founder of British motorist lobby group Safe SpeedSafe SpeedSafe Speed is a United Kingdom based pressure group. While notionally supporting road safety the organisation primarily campaigns against speed cameras...