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Thompson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Tom (or Thomas)". There are varied spellings. Thompson can refer to:
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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
- 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
- Gregg Thompson, Australian astronomer
- Gregg Thompson, U. S. soccer player
- Hugh Thompson, Jr., U.S. Army helicopter pilot, known for saving lives at the My Lai Massacre
- 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 longtime basketball coach for Georgetown University, who coached the Hoyas to the 1984 NCAA Men's title
- 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
- Lady Gwen Thompson
- Laird A. Thompson, American astronomer
- LaMarcus Adna Thompson (1848–1919), known for his early work developing roller coasters, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity"
- Lea Thompson
- 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
- Lincoln Thompson, a Jamaican reggae artist
- Linda Chavez-Thompson, an American union leader
- Mickey Thompson, renowned race car driver, promoter
- Mychal Thompson, one of the Jena 6
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1906), former ice hockey player
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1968), former Guildford Flames Captain
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey coach)
- 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, 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
- Thomson and Thompson, The Adventures of Tintin's Character
- Tiny Thompson
- Tommy Thompson, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, one-time candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Marko "Thompson" Perković, 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:
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
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
