Cicely Fox Smith (1 February 1882 – 8 April 1954) was an English poet and writer born in Lymm, Cheshire. She briefly lived in Canada, before returning to the United Kingdom shortly before the outbreak of World War I. She settled in Hampshire and began writing poetry, often with a nautical theme. In later life, she expanded her writing to various subjects, fiction and non-fiction.
Books by Smith included romantic novels, numerous short stories and articles, and several books describing "sailortown." She published a book of traditional sea shanties that she had collected, and edited a collection of sea poems and stories primarily by other authors. She wrote of her experiences rounding the coast of Africa as a guest of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. in All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa. In the 1940s she began writing children's sea stories with her sister Margaret (Madge) Scott Smith, other travel books, history books, a book about ship models, at least one biography, Grace Darling.
The artwork of her older brother Philip Wilson Smith, known at the time for his etchings of Elizabethan architecture and oil paintings, illustrates many of her poetry and prose books.