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Smiley (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ415575 ↗
Source-derived summary

A smiley is a sketchy representation of a smiling face, usually yellow.

Smiley may also refer to:

Places

United States

Smiley Township, Pennington County, Minnesota

Smiley, Texas, a city

Smiley, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Smiley Mountain, Idaho

Elsewhere

Smiley, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village

1613 Smiley, a belt asteroid named for American astronomer Charles Hugh Smiley

15760 Albion, a trans-Neptunian object, the first discovered, for which Smiley was an early proposed name

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

Smiley (1956 film), a British-American film set in Australia

Smiley Face (film), an American comedy film

Smiley (2012 film), an American psychological slasher film

Smiley (TV series), a Spanish romantic comedy television series.

Music

Performers

Smiley (musician), Aruba-born Dutch reggae musician, formerly of reggae band Out of Many

Smiley (rapper), Canadian rapper

Smiley (singer), Romanian singer, songwriter, producer

Smiley, pseudonym of Kyle Ward (musician), contributor to the In The Groove dance music game series

Smiley, nickname for record producer Warryn Campbell (born 1975)

Smiley Burnette, stage name of singer-songwriter, musician, film and TV actor Lester Alvin Burnette (1911–1967)

Smiley Lewis (1913–1966), stage name of American New Orleans rhythm and blues singer and guitarist Overton Lemons (1913–1966)

Songs

"Smiley", a 1969 song by Ronnie Burns

"Smiley", a song on The Smashing Pumpkins' Peel Sessions EP

"Smiley", a 2022 song by Choi Ye-na

People and fictional characters

Smiley (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the surname

Smiley Creswell (born 1959), American former National Football League player

Smiley (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters

Living Smile Vidya (born 1982), or Smiley, Indian trans woman actor, assistant director, writer, and trans and Dalit rights activist

Other uses

Smiley baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

the cookie mascot at Eat'n Park

a common name for an upper lip frenulum piercing

another name for a chainlock, an improvised weapon made from a length of chain attached to a lock or other heavy piece of metal

Smiley (alligator), at the time of his death, the oldest alligator in captivity

See also

"Mr. Smiley", a song by Poison from Crack a Smile

"Mr.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1613, 1956, 2012, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Smiley, disambiguation and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Smiley (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.