Thornton (surname)

Thornton is a surname, and may refer to:

• Abraham Thornton
• Al Thornton, basketball player
• Alfred Thornton (1853–1906), English footballer from the 1870s
• Alvin Thornton
• Andre Thornton, baseball player
• Andrew Thornton, pro jockey
• Andrew C. Thornton II
• Anne Thornton, cabin boy and ship's cook
• Archibald Thornton
• A. G. (Archibald George) Thornton novelist and journalist
• Barry Thornton
• Big Mama Thornton, musician
• Billy Bob Thornton (born 1955), actor
• Bonnell Thornton, parodist
• Bret Thornton
• Bruce Thornton, classicist
  • Bruce Thornton (football player)
• Cecilia Dart-Thornton
• Charley Thornton
• David Thornton (musician), British euphonium player
• David Thornton (actor), actor and husband to Cyndi Lauper
• David Thornton (American football), linebacker for the Tennessee Titans
• De'mario Monte Thornton, real name of Raz-B, member of boy band B2K
• Edward Thornton (disambiguation)
• Eleanor Velasco Thornton, actress and model
• Elena Mumm Thornton socialite, European aristocrat, editor
• Elizabeth Thornton, writer
• Flora L. Thornton
• Frank Thornton
• George Thornton (disambiguation)
• Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton
• Grant Thornton
• Henry Thornton (disambiguation)
  • Henry Thornton (abolitionist), campaigner against the slave trade
  • Henry Thornton (railroader), president of Canadian National Railway
  • Henry Clay Thornton, lawyer and father of Sir Henry Worth Thornton
  • Henry Hermann Mumm Thornton banker; businessman; grandson of Sir Henry W. Thornton
• James Thornton (disambiguation)
  • James Thornton (American football)
  • James Thornton (naval officer) (1826–1875)
  • James Worth Thornton, businessman and son of Sir Henry Worth Thornton
  • Jim Thornton
• Joe Thornton, an NHL hockey player
• John Thornton (disambiguation)
  • John L. Thornton
  • John R. Thornton
  • John Wingate Thornton, lawyer, historian, author
  • John Thornton (philanthropist)
• Kalen Thornton
• Kate Thornton, British television presenter
• Kathryn Thornton, astronaut
• Keith Thornton, hip hop artist Kool Keith
• Kevin Thornton
• Kirk Thornton
• Kristin Thornton
• Lawrence Thornton
• Lou Thornton, former major league baseball player
• Louise Thornton
• Malcolm Thornton
• Marcia Thornton Jones, best-selling children's author
• Mark Thornton
• Matt Thornton
• Matthew Thornton, first president of New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Melanie Thornton, musician
• Melody Thornton
• Michael Thornton (disambiguation)
  • Michael B. Thornton
• Omar Thornton, murderer of 8 and suicide, see Hartford Distributors shooting
• Randy Thornton
• Richard Thornton, millionaire 'Duke of Danzig'
• Richard L. Thornton, Native American architect, city planner & writer
• Robert Thornton (disambiguation)
  • Robert Thornton, jockey
  • Robert L. Thornton
  • Robert Lyster Thornton
  • Robert Stirton Thornton
• Roger Thornton
• Samuel Thornton, bank director
  • Samuel W. Thornton Nebraskan politician
• Sara Thornton
• Sarah Thornton
• Scott Thornton, ice hockey player
• Sean Thornton
• Sean Thornton (The Quiet Man)
• Shawn Thornton, ice hockey player
• Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
• Simon Thornton
• Tex Thornton
• Tiffany Thornton, American actress
• Timothy Thornton, American musician
• Walter Thornton
• William Thornton, architect
  • William E. Thornton, astronaut
  • William Patton Thornton, doctor
  • William Wheeler Thornton, Judge, Deputy Attorney General of Indiana, author, and State Supreme Court Librarian
  • Willie Thornton
• Zach Thornton