Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova (Russian Тамара Михайловна Смирнова; scientific transliteration Tamara Smirnova Michajlovna, English spelling: Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova, * 1935, † 2001) was a Soviet astronomer.

From 1966 to 1988 she was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Leningrad. It is Mitentdeckerin the comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh along with. They also discovered more than 100 asteroids. According to her, the asteroid ( 5540 ) Smirnova is named.