Hopkinson Smith (born December 7, 1946) is an American lutenist and pedagogue, longtime resident in Basel, Switzerland.

Born in New York, he graduated from Harvard with Honors in Music (Thesis on "The pavans of Daniel Bacheler"). He moved to Europe in 1973 to study lute and vihuela with the renowned Spanish classical guitarist Emilio Pujol, as well as Eugen Mueller-Dombois.