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Contemporary Notables of the name Smylie (post 1700)+

  • Robert "Ed" Smylie (1930-2025), American NASA engineer, best remembered as the leader of a team of engineers who jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon creating an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970
  • William S. Smylie, American politician, Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, 1953-57 3
  • Robert Eben Smylie (1914-2004), American Republican politician, Governor of Idaho, 1955-67; Delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho, 1960; Speaker, 1956, 1960 4
  • Michael J. Smylie, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1952, 1956, 1972 4
  • Dennis Smylie, American bass clarinetist
  • James Hutchinson Smylie (b. 1925), American Emeritus Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education
  • Adarrial Smylie, American former basketball player
  • Mark Smylie (b. 1967), American comics creator, writer and illustrator
  • Robert Eben Smylie (1914-2004), American politician, 24th Governor of Idaho (1955-1967)
  • ... (Another 3 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)
  2. Charbonneau, André, and Doris Drolet-Dubé. A Register of Deceased Persons at Sea and on Grosse Île in 1847. The Minister of Canadian Heritage, 1997. ISBN: 0-660-198/1-1997E (p. 56)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 2) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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