Thomas George Smith (1851 – 16 December 1909) was an Australian football player.

[4] Smith was arguably the first star player for the Port Adelaide Football Club.

He won three consecutive best and fairest for Port Adelaide during the first three years of the South Australian Football Association (later SANFL) from 1877 to 1879.

On 29 May 1885 a football match on Adelaide Oval was organised by the SAFA between an All-Indigenous team captained by Harry Hewitt and a combined team selected by, the then retired Smith composed of players from Port Juniors, LeFevre Peninsula, Fitzroy and Kingston.

[7] Thomas Smith was a cousin to Australian artist Mortimer Menpes.