William Thompson

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William Thompson could refer to:

Contents 1 Academics and scientists 2 Authors 3 Military figures 4 Political figures 5 Sports figures 6 Others 7 See also

[edit] Academics and scientists

• William Thompson (naturalist) (1805–1852), Irish ornithologist and botanist
• William Thompson (viticulturist), an Englishman who developed the Thompson Seedless grape
• William Thompson (philosopher) (1775-1833), an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer
• William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
• William Irwin Thompson (born 1938), United States cultural historian, philosopher, poet, novelist, yogi
• William Oxley Thompson (1855—1933), fifth President of The Ohio State University.

[edit] Authors

• William Tappan Thompson (1812–1882), United States humorist

[edit] Military figures

• William Thompson (general) (1736–1781), Irish-born American Revolutionary War general
• William A. Thompson (1854–1925), figure in the United States Army Corps of Engineers whose name is used for the USACE's dredge for the upper Mississippi River
• William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) (1927-1950), Korean War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• William James Thompson (1829-1891), an English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William Kent Thompson (1970ish-present), an English recipient of the Combat Action Badge, Aviation Maintenance Supervisor, Beloved First Sergeant, well endowed, and a love for hacky sack.

[edit] Political figures

• William Thompson (1629-1692), English Member of Parliament for Scarborough
• William Thompson (Ipswich MP), (c.1676-1739) English Member of Parliament for Ipswich
• William Thompson (died 1744), English Member of Parliament for Scarborough
• William Thompson (philosopher) (1775–1833), Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer
• William Thompson (Upper Canada) (1786–1860), political figure in Upper Canada
• William Thompson (ironmaster) (1793-1854), ironmaster and MP for Westmorland (UK Parliament constituency)
• William Thompson (Iowa) (1813–1897), United States representative from Iowa
• William Thompson (North Carolina), a member of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1778 and 1779 (f
• William Thompson (born 1939), an Ulster politician and former member of the British parliament
• William G. Thompson (1840–1904), two-time mayor of Detroit
• William George Thompson (1830–1911), United States representative from Iowa
• William Hale Thompson (1869–1944), corrupt mayor of Chicago from 1915–1923 and again from 1927–1931
• William Henry Thompson (1853–1937), United States senator from Nebraska
• William Howard Thompson (1871–1928), United States senator from Kansas
• William Carrington Thompson (born 1916), an American politician and jurist from Virginia
• William Thompson (Northern Ireland politician) (b. 1939), a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician
• William Thompson (New York) (fl. 2000s), New York City political figure

[edit] Sports figures

• William Thompson (archer) (1848-?), United States archer who won three medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics
• William Thompson (boxer) (1811–1880), British prizefighter

[edit] Others

• William Thompson (confidence man), an American criminal whose deceptions caused the term "confidence man" to be coined
• William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), an American mining engineer, financier, promoter of Western support for the revolutionary Kerensky and Bolshevik governments of Russia, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining

[edit] See also

• Bill Thompson
• Billy Thompson
• William Thomson (disambiguation)