Thompson
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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

Exceptionally well-known people 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 Thompson – former Prime Minister of Canada
• Ken Thompson – U.S. computer scientist
• Tommy Thompson – United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

See also List of people named Thompson

See also:

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

Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) are the two clumsy detectives from the Tintin series.

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