Owen Lun West Smith (May 18, 1851 – January 5, 1926) was an African American minister and diplomat of the United States.

[1] At the start of the Civil War, he would follow the Confederate army while serving as a personal servant.

[2][3] In 1880 Smith would convert to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, while attending a camp in Whiteville, North Carolina; later on, by 1881, he would attain a preacher's license and was ordained as a local deacon.

[4][5] Following his conversion, he would go on to receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Livingstone College in 1883.

[2][3] After having been appointed on February 11, 1898, Smith would go on to serve as the Minister Resident of the United States to Liberia between May 11, 1898, and May 13, 1902.