Lucy Wilmot Smith (November 16, 1861 - December 1, 1889) was an American teacher, journalist, editor, suffragist, and historian from the U.S. state of Kentucky.

In 1881, she was elected teacher in State University, taking charge of the model school as principal.

In 1884, Smith left the State University and filled a position in Wyandotte County, Kansas.

She was a member of the Board of Managers for years and was Secretary of Children's Hands, an auxiliary of that body.

The first National Baptist Convention, which met in St. Louis in 1886, listened to a paper from her on "'The Future Colored Girl," which is published in the "Journal" of that meeting.

Her newspaper work began in 1884, when she controlled the "Children's Column" in The American Baptist, of Louisville.

She furnished sketches of newspaper writers, among the women of the race, for The New York Journalist, in the interest of artists, authors and publishers, Her work was praised and reproduced in the Boston Advocate (now known as The Jewish Advocate), the Indianapolis Freeman and other papers.

She knew what the result would be and requested Dr. Simmons to preach her funeral, and selected hymns and passages of scripture for the occasion.