James Edward Smith (Norwich, 2 de dezembro de 1759 – Norwich, 17 de março de 1828) foi um botânico britânico, conhecido por ter sido o fundador e o primeiro presidente da Sociedade Linneana de Londres (1788).
Escreveu A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, primeiro livro sobre a flora australiana.
Com John Abbot: The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, London 1797
Compendium Floræ Britannicæ, London 1800
Exotic Botany: consisting of coloured figures and scientific descriptions of such new, beautiful, or rare plants as are worthy of cultivation in the gardens of Britain ... The figures by J Sowerby 2 volumes, London 1804
Remarks on the generic characters of the decandrous papilionaceous plants of New Holland, London 1804
An Introduction to physiological and systematical Botany, London 1807
A Review of the modern state of Botany, with a particular reference to the natural systems of Linnæus and Jussieu. From the second volume of the supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Edinburgh 1817(?)
Considerations respecting Cambridge, more particularly relating to its Botanical professorship, London 1818
A Grammar of Botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as natural classification; with an explanation of Jussieu's system, London 1821
A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and other naturalists. 2 Bände, London 1821 Band 1
A Compendium of the English Flora, London 1829
The English Flora, 5 Bände, London 1824–36
English Botany, or coloured figures of British Plants. ..., The figures by J. Sowerby, (2. Auflage, 12 Bände), London 1832–1846