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

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.

[3] In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew[4] and Old Testament subjects in the Free Church College at Glasgow.

[1][5] In 1909, he was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, a post he held until his retirement in 1935.