Editing David Smith (section)

==Academics==
* [[David Paige Smith]] (1830–1880), American medical doctor and professor at Yale
* [[David Eugene Smith]] (1860–1944), American professor of mathematics
* [[D. M. Smith]] (1884–1962), American professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech
* [[David Smith (amateur mathematician)]], discoverer of an aperiodic tiling
* [[D. Nichol Smith]] (1875–1962), Scottish professor of literature at Oxford University
* [[David Chadwick Smith]] (1931–2000), Canadian professor of economics, Queen's University
* [[David Smith (chemical physicist)]] (1935–2023), British chemical physicist, University of Birmingham
* [[David C. Smith (historian)]] (1929–2009), American professor of history, University of Maine
* [[David Martyn Smith]] (1921–2009), American professor of forestry at Yale
* [[David Smith (botanist)]] (1930–2018), British professor of botany
* [[Dai Smith (historian)]] (born 1945), Welsh professor of history
* [[David J. Smith (physicist)]] (born 1948), Australian professor of physics at Arizona State
* [[David Livingstone Smith]] (born 1953), professor of philosophy at the University of New England
* [[David Smith (historian)]] (born 1963), British professor of history at Cambridge
* [[David K. Smith]], British professor of chemistry at University of York
* [[David R. Smith (physicist)]], American physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University