In Education or Religion
- David Hyrum Smith (1844–1904), missionary of the Latter Day Saint movement
- David Eugene Smith (1860–1944), American mathematician and educator
- David A. Smith (Mormon) (1879–1952), bishop and first president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- David Chadwick Smith (1931–2000), Canadian economist
- David Smith (bishop) (born 1935), English Bishop of Bradford
- David J. Smith (born 1948), Australian experimental physicist and Regents' Professor of physics at Arizona State University
- David Smith (botanist) (born 1930), principal of Edinburgh University, 1987–1994
- David Smith (historian) (born 1963), British historian
- David C. Smith (historian) (1929–2009), American historian
- David R. Smith, American physicist; Ph.D. in 1994
- D. M. Smith (1884–1962), professor and mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- D. Nichol Smith (died 1962), Scottish literary scholar
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