Sir George Adam Smith FRSE, FBA (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1942) was a Scottish theologian.

He was the Principal of the University of Aberdeen between 1909 and 1935 and an important figure in the United Free Church of Scotland.

He was born in Calcutta, where his father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras.

[citation needed] After studying for summer semesters as a postgraduate at the University of Tübingen (1876) and the University of Leipzig (1878) and travelling in Egypt and Syria, he was ordained into the Free Church of Scotland in 1882 and served at the Queen's Cross Free Church in Aberdeen.

He is buried with his wife and children in the north-east corner of Currie Cemetery in south-west Edinburgh.