Wentworth Smith (1571 – in or after 1614), was a minor English dramatist of the Elizabethan period who may have been responsible for some of the plays in the Shakespeare Apocrypha, though no work known to be his is extant.
He married Agnes Gymber on 29 September 1594 in St Thomas the Apostle, another parish church in the city, destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
That Wentworth Smith is known as a writer is due entirely to the presence of his name in the account book of Philip Henslowe.
He may have continued writing plays, though as Henslowe ceased recording the names of his writers after 1603 this cannot be confirmed.
In addition to the works in which his hand is certain, Smith may have been responsible in whole or part for three plays of the period published under the initials "W. S." These were Locrine (1595), Thomas Lord Cromwell (1602) and The Puritan (1607).