Thompson

Make sure you are really looking for Thompson rather than Thomson or Thomsen.

Thompson is the name of some places in the United States of America including

• Thompson, Connecticut
• Thompson, Iowa
• Thompson, New York
• Thompson, North Dakota
• Thompson, Pennsylvania

People whose surname is or was Thompson include

• Benjamin Thompson – Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford"
• Carl Thompson – instrument builder
• Carlos Thompson -- Argentinian actor, husband of Lilli Palmer
• Clive Thompson – 9/11 victim
• Dave Thompson – British standup comedian
• David Thompson – Canadian explorer
• Ed Thompson – U.S politician (United States Libertarian Party)
• Edward Palmer Thompson – historian
• Emma Thompson – British actress
• Eric Thompson -- British actor, Emma Thompson's father
• Francis Thompson – English poet
• Homer Thompson - archaeologist
• Hunter S. Thompson – U.S. journalist and author
• J. Eric S. Thompson - Maya archeologist
• Jenny Thompson – swimmer
• Jim Thompson – U.S. pulp fiction writer
• Jim Thompson - Founder of the Thai silk company
• John Thompson – former Prime Minister of Canada
• General John T. Thompson -- U.S. gun designer (Thompson Submachine gun)
• Ken Thompson – U.S. computer scientist
• Obadele Thompson – athlete
• Richard Thompson – musician (Fairport Convention)
• Richard Wigginton Thompson – 19th century U.S. politician (USS Thompson (DD-305))
• Robert Means Thompson – U.S. Navy officer (USS Thompson (DD-627))
• Smith Thompson -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Sophie Thompson -- British actress
• Tommy Thompson – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• William Hale Thompson – former Mayor of Chicago
• William Hepworth Thompson – English classical scholar

See also:

• Sadie Thompson, a 1928 film about a "fallen woman" which was remade several times
• USS Thompson
• Thompson Submachine gun
• Rothmund-Thompson syndrome