Lillian Rita Smith (née Hampton, 9 May 1912 – 7 June 1993) was a notable New Zealand communist and political activist.
Her parents, Ann Bawden Moses and Henry Hampton, had married in Auckland in 1898 before their emigration to Australia.
Trained as a nurse, she worked as a parlour maid for a wealthy family during the Great Depression.
This opened her eyes to "the contradictions of capitalism", and she joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1936.
When one ward of Starship Hospital was occupied by protesters in November 1992, Smith was one of the people arrested; she was 80 at the time.