Thompson
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Thompson can refer to:
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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
- Emma Thompson – British actress
- Francis Thompson – English poet
- Hunter S. Thompson – U.S. journalist and author
- Jim Thompson – U.S. pulp fiction writer
- John Sparrow David Thompson – former Prime Minister of Canada
- John W. Thompson - CEO of Symantec
- Ken Thompson – U.S. computer scientist
- Sir Robert Thompson (counter-insurgency expert)
- Tommy Thompson – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
See also List of people named Thompson
The Thompson people are a Canadian First Nation in British Columbia.
Places
- In the United States of America:
- In Canada:
- Thompson, Manitoba
- Thompson, an electoral district in the above location
Other
- USS Thompson, two U.S. Navy destroyers
- Thompson submachine gun
- Rothmund-Thompson's syndrome
- 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.