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
- 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 Thompson – former Prime Minister of Canada
- Ken Thompson – U.S. computer scientist
- Tommy Thompson – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
See also:
- Sadie Thompson, a 1928 film about a "fallen woman" which was remade several times
- USS Thompson
- Thompson Submachine gun
- Rothmund-Thompson syndrome