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Contemporary Notables of the name Smiley (post 1700) +

  • Edward Forbes Smiley III (b. 1956), convicted American art thief found guilty in 2006 of stealing 97 rare maps originally valued at more than US 3 million and sentenced to 42 months in prison
  • Brett Smiley (1955-2016), American singer-songwriter
  • Charles Hugh Smiley (1903-1977), American astronomer and academic, eponym of the main belt asteroid 1613 Smiley
  • Charles Smiley (b. 1954), American politician, Member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2011-)
  • Jane Smiley (b. 1949), American Pulitzer Prize-winning (1992) novelist for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991)
  • Gordon Smiley (1946-1982), American race car driver, inducted into the Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2000
  • Tava Michelle Smiley (b. 1971), American actress and television host
  • Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley (1925-1972), American bluegrass and country musician, posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1992
  • John Smiley (b. 1965), American Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1986 to 1997
  • ... (Another 31 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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