Smoot (disambiguation)

A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet 7 inches (1.702 m).

Smoot or Smoots may also refer to:

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  • Abraham O. Smoot (1815–1895), mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Brigham Smoot (1869–1946), Utah-Idaho Sugar Company executive and son of Abraham O. Smoot
  • Clement Smoot (1884–1963), American golfer
  • Dan Smoot (1913–2003), FBI agent and conservative political activist
  • Dawuane Smoot (born 1995), American football player
  • Fred Smoot (born 1979), American football player
  • George Smoot (born 1945), astrophysics scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nobel prize laureate in Physics, 2006
  • Homer Smoot (1878–1928), American baseball player
  • Julianna Smoot, political fundraiser for the Democratic Party
  • L. Douglas Smoot (1934–2020), American chemical engineer
  • Lanny Smoot (born c. 1955), American electrical engineer, inventor
  • Mary Ellen W. Smoot (born 1933), Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Oliver R. Smoot (born 1940), former head of ISO and ANSI, for whom the unit was named
  • Reed Smoot (1862–1941), Senator from Utah, sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and son of Abraham O. Smoot
  • Reed Smoot (cinematographer), American cinematographer
  • Roland N. Smoot (1901–1984), United States Navy vice admiral
  • William Smoot (c. 1848–1938), American Baptist preacher

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