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Thompson can refer to:
Places
In Canada:
- Thompson, Manitoba
- Thompson (Manitoba riding), an electoral district in the above location
- Thompson Island, a small island in the south
- Thompson, Connecticut
- Thompson, Iowa
- Thompson, Michigan
- Thompson, New York
- Thompson, North Dakota
- Thompson, Pennsylvania
People
Exceptionally well-known individuals whose surname is or was Thompson include:
- Ahmir Khalib Thompson (b. 1971), aka ?uestlove, African-American musician, DJ, and record producer, best known as the drummer for hip-hop band The Roots
- Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford"
- 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
- 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) and film/TV actor
- Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet
- 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
- John Sparrow David Thompson (1845–1894), former Prime Minister of Canada
- John W. Thompson (b. 1949), CEO of Symantec
- John Thompson (b.1941), All-America basketball player and top-notch basketball coach for Georgetown University
- Ken Thompson (computer programmer) (b. 1943), U.S. computer scientist
- LaMarcus Adna Thompson (1848–1919), known for his early work developing roller coasters, sometimes called the "Father of Gravity"
- Lee Jay Thompson (b. 1947), the saxophonist of Madness
- Richard Thompson, British musician
- Scott Thompson (b. 1959), Canadian television comedian
- Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916), English physicist
- Susanna Thompson (b. 1958), American television and film actress
- Tommy Thompson, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
See also Thom#Thomp, Thomson (disambiguation)
- Thompson River Salish, a Canadian First Nation in south central British Columbia
Language
- Thompson language (Thompson River Salish), a 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, a hereditary and familial disease
- 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
- Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond), the two clumsy detectives from the Tintin series.
- Aarne-Thompson classification system of folk stories
See also
"Thompson"