THOMPSON

'Thompson' can refer to:

Contents

People

Places

Nations and languages

Things

See also

People

Well-known individuals whose surname is or was 'Thompson' include:

★ Ahmir Khalib Thompson (b. 1971), aka ?uestlove, African-American musician, DJ, and record producer

★ Alden Thompson, Christian theologian

★ Archie Thompson, Australian football (soccer) player for Melbourne Victory

★ Barry Thompson

★ Ben Thompson (1842–1884), gunfighter and gambler

★ Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford"

★ Burnett Thompson American musician

★ Cameron Thompson, Australian politician

★ D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), Scottish biologist and mathematician

★ Dave Thompson, British standup comedian

★ David Thompson (explorer) (1770–1857), Canadian explorer

★ David M. Thompson (b. 1951), American music theorist

★ Daley Thompson (b. 1958), twice Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon

★ Duncan Thompson, Australian rugby league footballer

★ Eddie Thompson, Scottish businessman and chairman of Dundee United F.C.

★ Edward Thompson (1881–1949), English steam locomotive engineer for the LNER

★ Emma Thompson (b. 1959), British actress

★ E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British 'new-left' historian

★ Fred Dalton Thompson (b. 1942), Former U.S. Senator (Tennessee), film/TV actor & candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

★ Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet

★ Georgia Thompson

★ Georgie Thompson

★ Greg Thompson

★ Lady Gwen Thompson

★ Lea Thompson

★ Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005), U.S. journalist and author

★ Jack Thompson (attorney) (b. 1951), U.S. Lawyer and anti-videogame activist

★ James R. Thompson (b. 1936), longest-serving governor of State of Illinois

★ Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), U.S. pulp fiction writer

★ Jonathan Thompson British television presenter, actor and entrepreneur

★ John B. Thompson, Cambridge sociologist

★ John Thompson (Manitoba politician) (b. 1908), Manitoba Provincial Cabinet Minister

★ John Thompson (b. 1941), All-America basketball player and top-notch basketball coach for Georgetown University

★ John G. Thompson (b. 1932), U.S. mathematician, Fields Medal winner

★ John Sparrow David Thompson (1845–1894), former Prime Minister of Canada

★ John W. Thompson (b. 1949), CEO of Symantec

★ Kate Thompson (author), author of ''The New Policeman''

★ Ken Thompson (computer programmer) (b. 1943), U.S. computer scientist

★ Kenan Thompson, American actor

★ LaMarcus Adna Thompson (1848–1919), known for his early work developing roller coasters, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity"

★ Lee Jay Thompson (b. 1947), the saxophonist of Madness

★ Llewellyn Thompson, U.S. Ambassador to Austria and Soviet Union

★ Libby Thompson (1855–1953), frontier prostitute and madam

★ Mickey Thompson renowned race car driver, promoter

★ Mychal Thompson

★ Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1906), former ice hockey player

★ Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1968), former Guildford Flames Captain

★ Paul Thompson (football), quarterback for the University of Oklahoma Sooners

★ Paul Thompson (musician) (Roxy Music)

★ Paul Thompson (professor), a management professor at the university of Strathclyde

★ Paul Thompson (sinologist), sinologist (1931-2007)

★ Paul Thompson, author of The Terror Timeline

★ Paul B. Thompson, fantasy writer

★ Paul "Porl" Thompson (musician) (The Cure)

★ Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876–1941), a British archaeologist and epigraphist

★ Richard Thompson, British musician

★ Rob Thompson (musician)

★ Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916–1992), a member of Wingate's Chindits, a counter-insurgency expert and author

★ Ruth Thompson, first female state representative of Michigan, first female U.S. Representative from Michigan

★ Saige Thompson, an American actress

★ Sarah Thompson (born 1979), an American actress

★ Scott Thompson (b. 1959), Canadian television comedian

★ Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916), English physicist

★ Susanna Thompson (b. 1958), American television and film actress

★ Syd'quan Thompson, defensive back for Cal Golden Bears

★ Thomas L. Thompson, Old Testament scholar

★ Tiny Thompson

★ Tommy Thompson, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services & one-time candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

★ Marko "Thompson" Perkovic, Croatian musician

Places

In Canada:

★ Thompson, Manitoba

★ Thompson (Manitoba riding), an electoral district in the above location

★ Thompson River, a river in British Columbia
In Chile:

★ Thompson Island, a small island in the south
In England:

★ Thompson, Norfolk
In the United States of America:

★ Thompson, Connecticut

★ Thompson, Iowa

★ Thompson Island, Massachusetts

★ Thompson Township, Michigan

★ Thompson, New York

★ Thompson, North Dakota

★ Thompson Township, Delaware County, Ohio

★ Thompson and Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio

★ Thompson Township, Seneca County, Ohio

★ Thompson, Pennsylvania

★ Thompson, Wisconsin
In the South Atlantic

★ Thompson Island

Nations and languages

★ Thompson River Salish, a Canadian First Nation in south central British Columbia

★ Thompson language (Thompson River Salish), a Salishan language spoken by the Thompson people of British Columbia

Things

★ USS ''Thompson'', two U.S. Navy destroyers

★ Thompson submachine gun

★ Thompson v. Johnson County Community College in Oklahoma

★ Rothmund-Thompson's syndrome, a hereditary and familial disease

★ Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond), the two clumsy detectives from the ''Tintin'' series

★ Thompson Twins, English 1980s neoromantic rock band

★ Thompson (band), a Croatian rock band

★ ''Sadie Thompson'', a 1928 film about a "fallen woman" which was remade several times

★ Aarne-Thompson classification system of folk stories

★ Thompson TO 7, a French microcomputer

See also

★ John Thompson

★ Thomson (disambiguation)

★ Thomsen