James Thompson

James Thompson may refer to:

Arts and sciences

James Thompson (poet) (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright
James Thompson (cartographer) (active 1785), who produced one of the first maps of York
James Thompson (journalist) (1817–1877), journalist and local historian
James Maurice Thompson (1844–1901), American novelist
Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848–1931), country music pioneer
James Westfall Thompson (1869–1941), American historian
Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction
James D. Thompson (1920–1973), American sociologist, author of Organizations in Action
Jimmy Thompson (actor) (1925–2005), British actor
James R. Thompson, Jr. (born 1936), known as J.R. Thompson, former director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 1986–1989
James Thompson (author) (1964–2014), American-Finnish crime writer
James Thompson (designer) (born 1966), Northern Irish inventor and patent holder in the airline seating industry
Jamie Thompson, Canadian musician

James Pyke Thompson (1846–1897), English corn merchant and philanthropist
James Walter Thompson (1847–1928), American advertiser and namesake of the JWT advertising agency
Jim Thompson (designer) (born 1906-disappeared 1967), revived the Thai silk industry
James E. Thompson (born 1940), founder, chairman and chief executive of The Crown Worldwide Group

James Thompson (VC) (1830–1891), recipient of the Victoria Cross
James Thompson of brothers Allen and James Thompson (1849–1921), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Floyd James Thompson (1933–2002), America's longest-held POW; spent almost 9 years in POW camps in Vietnam

James Thompson (jurist) (1806–1874), congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
James Thompson (American politician), candidate in Kansas in 2017
James Thompson (Australian politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1856–1857
James Banford Thompson (1832–1901), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1877–1881
James G. Thompson (New York) (born 1829), New York politician
James Thompson (civil servant) (1848–1929), Acting Governor of Madras
James T. Thompson, Mayor of Birkenhead, England, circa 1899
James A. Thompson (Brooklyn) (c. 1873 – 1923), New York state senator
James Frederick Thompson (1884–1966), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
James R. Thompson, Jr. (born 1936), known as Jim Thompson, governor of Illinois and member of the 9/11 Commission
James A. Thompson, mayor of Sugar Land, Texas
James F. Thompson, United States government official

James Thompson (martyr) (died 1582), Catholic priest hanged under Elizabeth I
James Thompson (pastor) (1788–1854), Scottish Baptist pastor and translator
James Denton Thompson (1856–1924), Bishop of Sodor and Man
Jim Thompson (bishop) (1936–2003), Anglican bishop of Stepney and Bath and Wells

James Thompson (chess player) (1804–1870), American chess master
James Thompson (footballer) (1898–1984), English footballer, manager and scout
James Thompson (swimmer) (1906–1966), Canadian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics
James Thompson (racing driver) (born 1974), English racing driver
James Thompson (fighter) (born 1978), professional mixed martial arts fighter from Britain
James Thompson (rower) (born 1986), South African rower
J. B. Thompson (James Bogne Thompson, 1829–1877), co-creator of the laws of Australian rules football
Jimmy Thompson (footballer, born 1899), English footballer
Jimmy Thompson (footballer, born 1935), English footballer
Jimmy Thompson (footballer, born 1943), English footballer (Grimsby Town)
Jimmy Thompson (rugby league) (born 1948), British rugby league footballer
Jim Thompson (powerboat racing) (born 1926), manager of three-time Harmsworth Trophy winner Miss Supertest III
Jim Thompson (coach), (born 1949) founder and executive director of Positive Coaching Alliance and author
Jim Thompson (rugby union) (born 1984), Scottish rugby union player

Jimmy Thompson (executioner), Mississippi executioner active from 1940 to 1950
James Richard "Ricky" Thompson Jr., perpetrator of the murder of John Goosey and Stacy Barnett (West Campus murders)

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