Thomas Smith (c. 1648 – 16 November 1694) was an English-born administrator and planter who served as the colonial governor of South Carolina from 1693 to 1694.

[1] He was born in Exeter, Devonshire, England, as the son of John Thomas Smith and Joan Atkins.

A stone slab marks his grave with the inscription: "Here Lieth Ye Body of the Right Honble Thomas Smith Esq.

The Proprietors, writing to Governor Archdale on 10 January 1695, stated: We forward copies of letters written by Colonel Smith not long before his death, that you may enjoy with us his satisfactory account of the growing condition of the province and of the peace and union to which he had brought it.

He appears to us to have been a man not only of great parts, integrity and honesty but of a generous temper and a nobleness of spirit as to the public good as is scarcely to be met withal in this age.