David Chadwick Smith CM FRSC (August 12, 1931 – May 22, 2000) was a Canadian economist, and the sixteenth Principal of Queen's University from 1984 to 1994.

In 1993, he was made a member of the Order of Canada. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976.

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