Thompson

Thompson can refer to:

Places

• In the United States of America:
  • Thompson, Connecticut
  • Thompson, Iowa
  • Thompson, Michigan
  • Thompson, New York
  • Thompson, North Dakota
  • Thompson, Pennsylvania
• In Canada:
  • Thompson, Manitoba
  • Thompson, an electoral district in the above location
• In England:
  • Thompson, Norfolk

People

Exceptionally well-known individuals whose surname is or was Thompson include:

• Benjamin Thompson – Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford"
• Dave Thompson – British standup comedian
• David Thompson - All-star basketball player for N.C. State Univ. and the NBA
• David Thompson (1770-1857), Canadian explorer
• Daley Thompson - Twice Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon
• Emma Thompson – British actress
• Francis Thompson – English poet
• George Thompson, several people
• Hunter S. Thompson – U.S. journalist and author
• Jack Thompson - U.S. Lawyer and anti-videogame activist
• Jim Thompson – U.S. pulp fiction writer
• John Sparrow David Thompson – former Prime Minister of Canada
• John W. Thompson - CEO of Symantec
• John Thompson - All-America basketball player and top-notch basketball coach for Georgetown University
• Ken Thompson – U.S. computer scientist
• Lee Jay Thompson - the saxophonist of Madness
• Richard Thompson - British musician
• Robert Thompson, several people
  • Sir Robert Thompson, British counterinsurgency expert
  • Robert Thompson, Master, Timothy Dwight College; Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
  • Robert Thompson, murderer of Liverpool toddler Jamie Bulger
  • Robert Means Thompson (1849-1930), U.S. naval officer
  • Robert N. Thompson, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada in the 1960s
  • Robert Thompson, a field hockey player from Great Britain
• Silvanus P. Thompson (1851-1916), English physicist
• Tommy Thompson – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

See also List of people named Thompson, Thomson (disambiguation)

The Thompson people (also known as Thompson River Salish) are a Canadian First Nation in south central British Columbia.

Language

• The Thompson language (also Thompson River Salish) is Salishan language spoken by the Thompson people of British Columbia.

Other

• USS Thompson, two U.S. Navy destroyers
• Thompson submachine gun
• Rothmund-Thompson's syndrome
• Thompson Twins, English 1980s neoromantic rock band
• Thompson, a Croatian rock band
• Sadie Thompson, a 1928 film about a "fallen woman" which was remade several times
• Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) are the two clumsy detectives from the Tintin series.
• Aarne-Thompson classification system of folk stories

Compare

• Thomson
• Thomsen