William Wragg Smith (1808—1875) was the son of the U.S. statesman William Loughton Smith.
He was a gentleman planter, lawyer, naturalist, translator and poet.
He was the second-to-last owner of the Smith-Wragg Plantation, the last being his wife Mary Theresa Hedley Smith and their children, who moved to New York.
He was also a founding member of the Elliott Natural History Society; Elliott was a founder of the Smithsonian Institution.
He authored several works, including: