Thompson is a patronymic

Patronymic

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 surname

Surname

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 of English

England

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 origin, with a variety of spellings meaning "son of Tom (or Thomas)". It is the 14th-most common surname in the United Kingdom. According to the 1990 United States Census, Thompson was the seventeenth most frequently reported surname, accounting for 0.27% of the population.

People

Well-known individuals whose surname

Surname

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 is or was Thompson include:

• Ahmir Khalib Thompson (b. 1971), aka Questlove, African-American musician, DJ, and record producer
• Alden Thompson
  Alden Thompson
  Alden Lloyd Thompson is a Seventh-day Adventist Christian theologian, author and popular speaker and seminar presenter. He is the professor of biblical studies at Walla Walla University in Washington, United States...
  
  , Christian theologian
• Andrew Thompson (catcher)
  Andrew Thompson (catcher)
  Andrew M. Thompson was an American professional baseball player for one season in the National Association in 1875 for the Washington Nationals. He appeared in 11 games that season, all of them as their catcher, and a part of one game in right field. In 41 at bats, he collected four hits, one o f...
  
   (Born 1846), baseball player
• Andrew Thompson (manager) (1845-1895), baseball manager
• Archie Thompson
  Archie Thompson
  Archibald Gerald Thompson is a New Zealand-born Australian professional football player, currently playing for Melbourne Victory in the Hyundai A-League, where he holds the League all time scoring record...
  
  , Australian football (soccer) player for Melbourne Victory
• Ben Thompson
  Ben Thompson
  Ben Thompson was a gunman, gambler, and sometime lawman of the Old West. He was a contemporary of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday, John Wesley Hardin and James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock, some of whom considered him a trusted friend, others an enemy.Ben Thompson had a colorful career,...
  
   (1842–1884), gunfighter and gambler
• Benjamin Thompson
  Benjamin Thompson
  Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford , FRS was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during the American...
  
   (1753–1814), Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford"
• Bill Thompson (New York)
  Bill Thompson (New York)
  William Colridge Thompson, Jr. , known as Bill or Billy, was the 42nd Comptroller of New York City. Sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He left office on December 31, 2009, having been succeeded by John Liu...
  
  , 42nd New York City Comptroller and presumptive Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor
• Bill Thompson (voice actor)
  Bill Thompson (voice actor)
  Bill Thompson was an American radio actor and voice actor whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death.-Early career:...
  
  , voice actor who played Droopy Dog and in a number of Disney films
• Bill Thompson (South Dakota politician)
  Bill Thompson (South Dakota politician)
  William R. "Bill" Thompson is a Democratic member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, representing the 13th district since 2003.-External links:* official SD House website* profile*Follow the Money - Bill Thompson...
  
  , member of the South Dakota State House of Representatives
• Bill Thompson (Wyoming politician), member of the Wyoming State House of Representatives
• Bill Thompson (technology writer)
  Bill Thompson (technology writer)
  Bill Thompson is an English technology writer, best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on Click, a radio show on the BBC World Service. He is also an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at City University London .Born in Jarrow, Thompson grew...
  
  , UK technology writer
• Bill Thompson III
  Bill Thompson III
  Bill Thompson III is the editor of . His most recent book is "The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern North America" . He is also the author of Bird Watching For Dummies , and author of 18 different state bird watching books in the Bird Watching: A Year-Round Guide series from Cool Springs...
  
  , editor of Bird Watcher's Digest
• Bill Thompson (American football)
  Bill Thompson (American football)
  William Allen Thompson is a former American football cornerback and safety in the National Football league. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 1969 NFL Draft...
  
  , former American football player
• Bill Thompson (footballer)
  Bill Thompson (footballer)
  Bill Thompson is a former Scottish footballer who played in the Football League as a wing half for Portsmouth and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic....
  
  
• Bradley Thompson
  Bradley Thompson
  Bradley Thompson is an American television producer and writer, best known for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , The Twilight Zone , Battlestar Galactica , and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation with writing partner David Weddle...
  
  , American television producer and writer
• Bryan Thompson
  Bryan Thompson
  Bryan Thompson is an automotive and freelance designer. He received a Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from College for Creative Studies in 1999 and was employed at Nissan Design America in San Diego...
  
  , American automotive designer
• Cameron Thompson
  Cameron Thompson
  Cameron Paul Thompson was an Australian politician in Queensland. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Blair from 1998 until 2007.-Early life:...
  
  , Australian politician
• Cec Thompson
  Cec Thompson
  Cec Thompson was a British professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, '50s and '60s.He was born in County Durham, the son of a mother from Durham and a Trinidadian father. His father died when he was very young and his childhood was spent in a succession of orphanages.Thompson took up...
  
  , British rugby league footballer
• Charles C. Thompson
  Charles C. Thompson
  Charles C. Thompson is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He has served as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Evansville in the state of Indiana since 2011.-Career:...
  
  , (b. 1961) American Catholic bishop
• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, written largely in Dundee in 1915...
  
   (1860–1948), Scottish biologist and mathematician
• Daley Thompson
  Daley Thompson
  Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE , is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times....
  
   (b. 1958), twice Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon
• Dan Thompson (swimmer)
  Dan Thompson (swimmer)
  Dan Thompson was a Canadian swimmer. He competed in the butterfly events during the 1970s and early 1980s. He was supposed to represent his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but didn't start due to the international boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games. He won a total number of two...
  
   (b. 1956), Canadian butterfly swimmer
• Dave Thompson (comedian), British standup comedian
• David Thompson (disambiguation), numerous people, including:
  • David Thompson (explorer)
    David Thompson (explorer)
    David Thompson was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer"...
    
     (1770–1857), Canadian explorer
• Des Thompson
  Des Thompson
  Desmond Thompson is an English former professional association football player who played as a goalkeeper.-References:* at the Post War Players Database...
  
   (b. 1928), English footballer
• Dicky Thompson
  Dicky Thompson
  Dicky Thompson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Thompson joined the Nationwide Tour in 1990. He won the Ben Hogan Baton Rouge Open and the Ben Hogan Elizabethtown Open en route to an 8th place finish on the money list which earned him his PGA...
  
   (b. 1957), American professional golfer
• Duncan Thompson
  Duncan Thompson
  Duncan Fulton Thompson MBE was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Eddie Thompson
  Eddie Thompson
  Edward Henry "Eddie" Thompson, OBE was a Scottish businessman, he was the chairman of Scottish football club Dundee United and a well known figure in the Scottish retail industry....
  
  , Scottish businessman and chairman of Dundee United F.C.
• Edward Thompson (engineer)
  Edward Thompson (engineer)
  Edward Thompson was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway between 1941 and 1946.- Biography :Edward Thompson was the son of an assistant master at Marlborough College. He was educated at Marlborough before taking the Mechanical Science Tripos at Pembroke College,...
  
   (1881–1949), English steam locomotive engineer for the LNER
• Emma Thompson
  Emma Thompson
  Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...
  
   (b. 1959), British actress
• E. P. Thompson
  E. P. Thompson
  Edward Palmer Thompson was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class...
  
   (1924–1993), British 'new-left' historian
• Fred Thompson (b. 1942), former U.S. Republican senator (Tennessee), film/TV actor, 2008 U.S. presidential candidate
• Fred Thompson (rower)
  Fred Thompson (rower)
  Frederick "Fred" or "Rangi" Houghton Thompson was a New Zealand rower.He was born in Christchurch.Thompson won a silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the coxless pairs event with partner Cyril Stiles...
  
   (1910–1971), New Zealand rower
• Francis Thompson
  Francis Thompson
  Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893...
  
   (1859–1907), English poet
• Gary Thompson (basketball)
  Gary Thompson (basketball)
  Gary Thompson is a retired American basketball player and broadcaster. He was an All-American player at Iowa State. Following his collegiate career, Thompson played for the Phillips 66ers of the Amateur Athletic Union and had a successful career as a broadcaster.-Playing career:Known as the...
  
  , American basketball player
• Georgia Thompson
  Georgia Thompson
  Georgia L. Thompson is a current Wisconsin civil servant who was convicted of federal corruption charges in 2006, but released by an appeals court in 2007 when her conviction was overturned....
  
  
• Georgie Thompson
  Georgie Thompson
  Georgina Jane 'Georgie' Thompson is an English broadcast journalist and television presenter for Sky Sports and Sky Sports News.-Education:...
  
   (b. 1977), British broadcast journalist and television presenter
• Greg Thompson
  Greg Thompson
  Gregory Francis Thompson, PC, MP is a Canadian politician who served six terms as an MP.Thompson, a businessman and financial planner was first elected into the Canadian House of Commons in the Canadian federal election, 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada...
  
   (b. 1947), Canadian politician
• Gregg Thompson
  Gregg Thompson
  Gregg Thompson is a retired U.S. soccer defender who was the 1983 North American Soccer League Rookie of the Year. He spent two season in the NASL and four in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and earned twelve caps with the U.S...
  
  , U. S. soccer player
• Gregg Thompson (astronomer)
  Gregg Thompson (astronomer)
  Gregg D. Thompson of Brisbane, Australia is an amateur astronomer and the executive director of the Dreamtech Designs and Productions company.-Astronomy:Gregg Thompson was one of the founding members of the Southern Astronomical Society ....
  
  , Australian astronomer
• Gwen Thompson
  Gwen Thompson
  Gwendoline Linda Louise Thompson is a Canadian violinist and music educator. She has been a member of two notable chamber music ensembles with whom she has made several commercial recordings: the Masterpiece Trio and Viveza, the latter of which she formed in 1989 with Lee Duckles , Wilmer Fawcett...
  
  , Canadian violinist
• Lady Gwen Thompson
  Lady Gwen Thompson
  Lady Gwen Thompson was the "public Craft name", or pseudonym of Witchcraft author Phyllis Thompson .In the 1980s, she altered her craft forename to "Gwynne"; Thompson is her final married surname....
  
   (1928–1986), American witchcraft author
• Hugh Thompson, Jr.
  Hugh Thompson, Jr.
  Hugh Clowers Thompson, Jr., DFC, BSM, PH, AM was a United States Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He is most well known for his role in stopping the My Lai Massacre, in which a group of US Army soldiers tortured and killed several hundred unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mutilating their...
  
  , U.S. Army helicopter pilot, known for saving lives at the My Lai Massacre
• Hunter S. Thompson
  Hunter S. Thompson
  Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...
  
   (1937–2005), U.S. journalist and author
• Jack Thompson (attorney)
  Jack Thompson (attorney)
  John Bruce "Jack" Thompson is an American activist and disbarred attorney, based in Coral Gables, Florida. Thompson is known for his role as an anti-video-game activist, particularly against violence and sex in video games....
  
   (b. 1951), U.S. Lawyer and anti-videogame activist
• James R. Thompson
  James R. Thompson
  James Robert Thompson, Jr. , also known as Big Jim Thompson, was the 37th and longest serving Governor of the US state of Illinois...
  
   (b. 1936), longest-serving governor of State of Illinois
• Jerry D. Thompson
  Jerry D. Thompson
  Jerry Don Thompson is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He is a prolific author of books on a variety of related topics, specializing in the American Civil War, the history of the Southwestern United States, and Texas History...
  
   (b. 1943), historian
• Jim Thompson (writer)
  Jim Thompson (writer)
  James Myers Thompson was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction....
  
   (1906–1977), U.S. pulp fiction writer
• John Thompson (disambiguation), numerous people, including:
  • John Thompson (basketball)
    John Thompson (basketball)
    John R. Thompson, Jr. is an American former basketball coach for the Georgetown University Hoyas. He is now a professional radio and TV sports commentator...
    
     (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 Sparrow David Thompson (1845–1894), former Prime Minister of Canada
• Jonathan Thompson
  Jonathan Thompson
  Jonathan Thompson, born in Salford, Greater Manchester, November 1976 is a British television presenter but he is also an actor and entrepreneur and photographic model. He is an avid collector of classic arcade games-Early life:...
  
  , British television presenter, actor and entrepreneur
• Jonathan Thompson (Collector)
  Jonathan Thompson (Collector)
  This page is about the 19th century New York politician, for the British media personality see Jonathan Thompson.Jonathan Thompson was an American merchant, banker and politician.-Life:He was the son of Isaac Thompson This page is about the 19th century New York politician, for the British media...
  
   (1773–1846), New York banker and politician
• Kate Thompson (author)
  Kate Thompson (author)
  Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
  
  , author of The New Policeman
• Ken Thompson
  Ken Thompson
  Kenneth Lane Thompson , commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science...
  
   (b. 1943), U.S. computer scientist
• Kenan Thompson
  Kenan Thompson
  Kenan Thompson is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his work as a cast member of NBC's long-running sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live...
  
  , American actor
• Kirt Thompson
  Kirt Thompson
  Kirt Thompson is a retired male javelin thrower from Trinidad and Tobago, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He set his personal best on May 25, 1996 in Riverside. Thompson was affiliated with the Ashland University.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   (b. 1967), Trinidad and Tobago javelin thrower
• Laird A. Thompson
  Laird A. Thompson
  Laird A. Thompson , is a professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thompson graduated with a B.A. in both physics and astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969. He received his Ph.D...
  
   (b. 1947), American astronomer
• LaMarcus Adna Thompson
  LaMarcus Adna Thompson
  LaMarcus Adna Thompson was a US inventor and businessman most famous for developing many highly enjoyable gravity rides.-Early years:...
  
   (1848–1919), known for his early work developing roller coasters, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity"
• Larry Thompson (disambiguation), various people with this name
• Lea Thompson
  Lea Thompson
  Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress and director. She is best known for her 1990s NBC situation comedy Caroline in the City and her portrayal of Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty McFly's mother, in the Back to the Future trilogy...
  
   (b. 1961), American actress and director
• Lee Thompson (saxophonist) (b. 1947), member of the UK band Madness
• Leonard Thompson
  Leonard Thompson (footballer)
  Leonard Thompson was an English professional footballer. He was born in Sheffield as the next to youngest child of Arthur William Thompson and Annie Willy...
  
  , British professional footballer
• Libby Thompson
  Libby Thompson
  Mary Elizabeth "Libby" Thompson was a prostitute and dance hall girl who worked in Dodge City, Kansas and other frontier cattle towns during the 1870s. She later became famous as Squirrel Tooth Alice, madam of a brothel in Sweetwater, Texas....
  
   (1855–1953), frontier prostitute and madam
• Lincoln Thompson
  Lincoln Thompson
  Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax, was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses, and a member of the Rastafari movement...
  
  , Jamaican reggae artist
• Linda Chavez-Thompson
  Linda Chavez-Thompson
  Linda Chavez-Thompson is a second-generation Mexican American and union leader. She was elected the executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO in 1995 and served until September 21, 2007. She is also a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and a member of the board of trustees of United Way...
  
  , American union leader
• Llewellyn Thompson
  Llewellyn Thompson
  Llewellyn E. "Tommy" Thompson Jr. , was a United States diplomat. He served in Sri Lanka, Austria, and for a lengthy period in the Soviet Union where his tenure saw some of the most significant events of the Cold War....
  
  , U.S. Ambassador to Austria and Soviet Union
• Mark Thompson
  Mark Thompson
  Mark John Thompson is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former chief executive of Channel 4...
  
  , Director-General of the BBC
• Mickey Thompson
  Mickey Thompson
  Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson was an American off-road racing legend. He won many championships as a racer, and later formed sanctioning bodies SCORE International and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group . He also raced in dragsters and land speed record automobiles.Thompson was born in Alhambra,...
  
  , race car driver, promoter
• Mildred Thompson
  Mildred Thompson
  Mildred Thompson was an African American artist who worked in the media of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. She was also a writer and, beginning in 1987, was an associate editor for the magazine Art Papers in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   (1935–2003) American painter, sculptor and printmaker
• Morris Thompson
  Morris Thompson
  Morris Thompson was an Alaska Native leader, American businessman and political appointee working on matters related to Alaska Natives.-Early life and career:...
  
  , American politician and businessman
• Mychal Thompson, retired National Basketball Association player
• Nainoa Thompson
  Nainoa Thompson
  Charles Nainoa Thompson is a Native Hawaiian navigator and the executive director of the Polynesian Voyaging Society...
  
  , Hawaiian navigator
• Nathan Thompson
  Nathan Thompson
  Nathan Thompson is a former Australian rules footballer, who previously played with the Hawthorn and North Melbourne Football Clubs in the Australian Football League. He is currently a part of the Panel on the Sunday Footy Show....
  
  , Australian Football League player
• Patricia Thompson
  Patricia Thompson
  Patricia Thompson was a Paris-based American television producer and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Thompson began her career at the NBC Chicago station WMAQ-TV in the 1970s...
  
  , TV and Film Producer
• Paul Thompson (disambiguation)
• Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:Thompson is the oldest of four children; he has two brothers and one sister...
  
  , musician in The Cure
• Reginald Campbell Thompson
  Reginald Campbell Thompson
  Reginald Campbell Thompson was a British archaeologist, assyriologist, and cuneiformist. He excavated at Nineveh, Ur, Nebo and Carchemish among many other sites.He was born in Kensington, and educated at Colet Court, St...
  
   (1876–1941), a British archaeologist and epigraphist
• Richard Thompson (musician), British musician
• Richard H. Thompson
  Richard H. Thompson
  -Biography:He was born on September 24, 1926 in New York City, New York. He entered in the Army in November 1944 and advanced to the grade of staff sergeant before being commissioned a second lieutenant. He served first at Fort Hamilton and then was assigned to Japan, where he performed duties as...
  
   born on September 24, 1926 in New York City, New York
• Richard H. Thompson (philatelist)
  Richard H. Thompson (philatelist)
  Richard H. Thompson was a philatelist from Baltimore, Maryland, who supported stamp collecting at the national level as well as in the Baltimore area.-Philatelic literature:...
  
  , philatelist from Baltimore, Maryland
• Richard S. Thompson (1916-1997), Louisiana state legislator
• Rob Thompson (musician)
• Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (1876–1955), British carpenter and furniture maker
• Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson (1916–1992), a member of Wingate's Chindits, a counter-insurgency expert and author
• Ruth Thompson
  Ruth Thompson
  Ruth Thompson was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Thompson was born in Whitehall, Michigan and attended the public schools. She graduated from Muskegon Business College of nearby Muskegon in 1905, and became a lawyer with a private practice...
  
  , first female state representative of Michigan, first female U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Sada Thompson
  Sada Thompson
  Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress.-Life and career:Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1927 to Hugh Woodruff Thompson and his wife Corlyss , and raised in New Jersey, Thompson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, after...
  
   (b. 1929), American actress
• Saige Thompson
  Saige Thompson
  Saige Thompson is an American actress.She portrayed Molly in the short-lived sitcom Life On A Stick. She has also guest starred in shows such as ER, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Ghost Whisperer, and Cold Case...
  
  , American actress
• Sarah Thompson (actress) (b. 1979), American actress
• Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford
  Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford
  Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, was a philanthropist. She is the first American to be known as a Countess.-Early life:...
  
   (1774–1852), first American countess
• Sean Thompson
  Sean Thompson
  Sean Davis Thompson is a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher currently playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers organization....
  
   (b. 1981), an English Games Developer
• Scott Thompson
  Scott Thompson
  Scott Thompson is a Canadian television actor and comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.-Personal life:...
  
   (b. 1959), Canadian television comedian
• Scottie Thompson
  Scottie Thompson
  Susan Scott "Scottie" Thompson is an American film, television and stage actress.-Early life:Thompson grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where she attended Collegiate School. From an early age she began learning ballet, jazz and modern dance...
  
   (born Susan Scott Thompson; November 9, 1981), an American actress
• Shaun Thompson
  Shaun T (fitness trainer)
  Shaun T. is an American fitness trainer and choreographer best known for his Insanity and Hip-Hop Abs home fitness programs for adults and children. Shaun is tall and weighs .-Early life and career:...
  
   (known as Shaun T.), an American fitness trainer, and choreographer
• Sheldon Thompson
  Sheldon Thompson
  Sheldon Thompson was mayor of Buffalo, New York, serving in 1840–1841. He was born in Derby, Connecticut on July 2, 1785. In early 1810, he moved to Lewiston, New York where he entered into the shipbuilding business and mercantile trade along the Great Lakes. He also entered the salt trade from...
  
   (1785–1851), American politician from Buffalo, New York.
• Silvanus P. Thompson
  Silvanus P. Thompson
  Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author...
  
   (1851–1916), English physicist
• Soren Thompson
  Soren Thompson
  Soren Thompson is an American right-handed epee fencer.Thompson attended Torrey Pines High School and Princeton University .-Fencing career:...
  
   (b. 1981), American épée fencer
• Steve Thompson (disambiguation)
• Susanna Thompson
  Susanna Thompson
  Susanna Thompson is an American television and film actress. She is skilled in Aikido and stage combat. She is best known for her role as Karen Sammler on Once and Again.-Career:...
  
   (b. 1958), American television and film actress
• Thomas Thompson (disambiguation), numerous people, including:
  • Thomas L. Thompson
    Thomas L. Thompson
    Thomas L. Thompson is a biblical theologian associated with the movement known as the Copenhagen School. He was professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1993–2009, lives in Denmark and is now a Danish citizen.-Background:Thompson obtained a B.A...
    
    , Old Testament scholar
  • Tom Thompson
    Tom Thompson (football)
    Tom Thompson was a member of the football team during the 2009 season for Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He is currently a graduate student and the kicking coach for the football team at Austin College....
    
    , Oldest college football player
  • Tommy Thompson
    Tommy Thompson
    Thomas George "Tommy" Thompson , a United States Republican politician, was the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, after which he served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Thompson was a candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, but dropped out early after a poor performance in polls...
    
    , Former Governor of Wisconsin, Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, and one-time candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
• Tiny Thompson
  Tiny Thompson
  Cecil Ralph "Tiny" Thompson was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League , first for the Boston Bruins, and later for the Detroit Red Wings. A four-time Vezina Trophy winner, Thompson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959...
  
   (1905–1981), Canadian professional ice hockey goalie
• William Thompson (disambiguation)
• Walter C. Thompson, business man and cool guy
• Whitney Thompson
  Whitney Thompson
  Whitney Thompson is an American fashion model and is the winner of the tenth cycle of America's Next Top Model.-Early life:...
  
  , fashion model, winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10
• Woodrow R. Thompson
  Woodrow R. Thompson
  Woodrow R. Thompson was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who received a posthumous Navy Cross for his actions in the Guadalcanal campaign during World War II.-Biography:...
  
   (1919–1942), a United States Marine Corps sergeant and posthumous Navy Cross recipient
• Zadock Thompson
  Zadock Thompson
  Zadock Thompson , a famous Vermont naturalist, professor, and Episcopal priest, was born in Bridgewater, Windsor County, Vermont on 23 May 1796 and died in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont on 19 January 1856...
  
   (1796–1856), a Vermont naturalist
• Zoe Thompson
  Zoe Thompson
  Zoe Thompson is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level. She attended Takapuna Grammar School and was Deputy Head Girl in her last year, 2001...
  
   New Zealand international football (soccer) player

See also

• Thompson (disambiguation)
• Thomson (surname)
  Thomson (surname)
  Thomson is an English and Scottish patronymic surname meaning "son of Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive of Thomas", itself dervied from the Aramaic תום or Tôm, meaning "twin". The Welsh surname is documented in Cheshire records before and after the 1066 Norman Conquest. Variations...
  
  
• Thomsen
  Thomsen
  Thomsen is a Danish patronymic surname meaning "son of Tom ", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or Tôm, meaning "twin". There are many varied surname spellings, with the first historical record believed to be found in 1252...