Craig Smith (born November 10, 1983 in Inglewood, California) is an American professional basketball player. After playing for Boston College from 2002-2006, he was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2006 NBA Draft. He is , and weighs .

Smith scored 2,349 points in his collegiate career, placing him second on Boston College's career scoring list (behind Troy Bell). In his senior season, he had per-game averages of 17.6 points, 9.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.2 steals, and 0.8 blocked shots. He also attended Worcester Academy, a preparatory school in Worcester, Massachusetts for a year as a post-graduate student before college

Craig Smith averaged 7.4 points and 5.1 rebounds in his rookie year (2006-07) with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He earned a starting role for the last five games of the season and averaged 12.0 points and 10.2 rebounds while logging an average 34.4 minutes. He now has an increased role in the 2007-08 season after a strong rookie performance and a Vegas Summer League performance during which he averaged 21.8 points and 6.0 rebounds. Although being extremely undersized for the power forward position, he has seen success in the NBA. Opposing coaches have been puzzled by his ability to rebound over much bigger players and get off quick shots in the paint. So far in his career, he has proven to be a steal in the second round of the 2006 NBA draft.

Craig Smith is both founder and Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music and, from 1988-91, was the Permanent Guest Conductor of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium.

For 35 years with Emmanuel Music, Mr. Smith has conducted a Cantata of J.S. Bach each week as part of the Sunday worship service at Boston's Emmanuel Church. As artistic director of Emmanuel Music, Mr. Smith presides over a popular and critically acclaimed concert series which has included the Passions, Christmas Oratorio, and B minor Mass of Bach; Mozart and Handel operas; major symphonic works; chamber series surveying the complete vocal, piano and chamber works of great composers (currently Schumann); and world premieres and commissions by composer John Harbison.

Smith has collaborated with stage director Peter Sellars in opera productions presented in the USA at Pepsico Summerfare, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, the American Repertory Theatre, and the Opera Company of Boston. Their productions of the three Mozart/da Ponte operas, Cosi fan tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni were premiered at Pepsico Summerfare, later performed throughout the US and Europe, filmed with the Vienna Symphony for European and American television, and later recorded on video compact disc for Decca Records. Their recent collaboration on Bach Cantatas (BWV 199 and 82), with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, was presented in Boston, New York City, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Vienna, and Lucerne, and has been released to critical acclaim on Nonesuch Records.

As principal guest conductor of the Monnaie Theatre, Mr. Smith collaborated with choreographer Mark Morris for two seasons, and has since toured with these productions to Boston, Minneapolis, New York City's Lincoln Center, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Holland, Israel, and New Zealand. He has conducted the Vienna Symphony, the Dresden Stattskapelle, the Northern Sinfonia, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Smith made his Houston Grand Opera debut conducting Handel's Giulio Cesare directed by Nicholas Hytner. His work with Emmanuel Music has been the subject of numerous radio and television specials including National Public Radio's Performance Today, and CBS Sunday Morning. With Emmanuel Music, he has recorded three highly acclaimed CDs of a capella music by Heinrich Schutz, works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison who is closely associated with Emmanuel Music, and works of J.S. Bach. Mr. Smith has taught at Juilliard, MIT, New England Conservatory, and Boston University.

Craig James Smith (born 30 August, 1978) is a professional rugby union player for Edinburgh Rugby in Scotland. He is one of Edinburgh's most experienced players.

Craig Smith is an Australian former professional rugby league player for the North Sydney Bears and Melbourne Storm.

Craig Smith (born 31 October 1971) is an Australian former professional rugby league player. He formerly played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Illawarra Steelers, St. George Illawarra Dragons and the Newcastle Knights as well as representing New Zealand and Queensland. Smith primarily played at prop. Smith was selected to represent Queensland as a prop for games I and II of the 1997 State of Origin series and on the bench for game III.

Following a series of suspensions in 2001 for contrary conduct and striking, Smith left the NRL and Australia in 2002 to play for English Super League club, Wigan Warriors.