Babette Alison Smith (2 April 1942 – 22 November 2021) OAM was an Australian colonial historian, mediator and business executive.

Her father Bruce saw active service as a Group Captain in the RAAF during WWII, was a barrister and later served as a judge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

[3][4] Entertainment Industry Babette was a convener of the Opera House Younger Set, a fund-raising group for what was then a vacant site on Bennelong Point.

Babette learned the business side of the performing arts through her job with director Stefan Haag at the Elizabethan Theatre Trust.

She was Harry M. Miller’s production assistant for Hair [5], and worked on the sets of three Australian films including Silver City[6] and Year of Living Dangerously.

[5] Smith was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to the community, particularly as an historian and author".

[13] The Luck of the Irish won the 2015 NSW Premier's Prize for Regional and Community history and was shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association’s Kay Daniels award for excellence in research in 2016.