Thompson
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Thompson can refer to:
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Places
- In the United States of America:
- In Canada:
- Thompson, Manitoba
- Thompson, an electoral district in the above location
- In England:
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People
Template:Surname Exceptionally well-known individuals whose surname is or was Thompson include:
- Benjamin Thompson – Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford"
- D'Arcy Thompson - Scottish biologist and mathematician
- Dave Thompson – British standup comedian
- David Thompson - All-star basketball player for N.C. State Univ. and the NBA
- David Thompson (1770-1857), Canadian explorer
- Daley Thompson - Twice Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon
- Emma Thompson – British actress
- Fred Dalton Thompson - Former U.S. Senator (Tennessee) and film/TV actor
- Francis Thompson – English poet
- George Thompson, several people
- Hunter S. Thompson – U.S. journalist and author
- Jack Thompson - U.S. Lawyer and anti-videogame activist
- James R. Thompson - Longest-serving governor of State of Illinois
- Jim Thompson – U.S. pulp fiction writer
- John Sparrow David Thompson – former Prime Minister of Canada
- John W. Thompson - CEO of Symantec
- John Thompson - All-America basketball player and top-notch basketball coach for Georgetown University
- Ken Thompson – U.S. computer scientist
- Lee Jay Thompson - the saxophonist of Madness
- Richard Thompson - British musician
- Robert Thompson, several people
- Sir Robert Thompson, British counterinsurgency expert
- Robert Thompson, Master, Timothy Dwight College; Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
- Robert Thompson, murderer of Liverpool toddler Jamie Bulger
- Robert Means Thompson (1849-1930), U.S. naval officer
- Robert N. Thompson, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada in the 1960s
- Robert Thompson, a field hockey player from Great Britain
- Silvanus P. Thompson (1851-1916), English physicist
- Tommy Thompson – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
See also List of people named Thompson, Thomson (disambiguation)
The Thompson people (also known as Thompson River Salish) are a Canadian First Nation in south central British Columbia.
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Language
- The Thompson language (also Thompson River Salish) is Salishan language spoken by the Thompson people of British Columbia.
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Other
- USS Thompson, two U.S. Navy destroyers
- Thompson submachine gun
- Rothmund-Thompson's syndrome
- Thompson Twins, English 1980s neoromantic rock band
- 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.
- Aarne-Thompson classification system of folk stories
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