George Henry Warwick Smith CBE (3 October 1916 – 27 December 1999) was a senior Australian public servant.

[1] Warwick Smith's first Secretary role was in the Department of Territories (later External Territories), he moved to the Department in 1964, a time when Australia was coming under increasing United Nations pressure to hasten Papua New Guinea's progress towards self-government.

[1] Warwick Smith established an unusual departmental structure with no deputy secretaries, which was unlike most Australian Government departments at the time.

Warwick Smith formally retired from the public service on 5 August 1980, his last position being as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction.

[1] In his later years, Warwick Smith suffered from emphysema, which led to his death on 27 December 1999 in a nursing home in Sydney.