Thompson (surname)
Thompson is a surname of English origin, with Thomson, originally meaning 'son of Thomas (twin)' being the more common spelling in Scotland. An alternative origin may be geographical, arising from the parish of Thompson in Norfolk. During the P ...
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Thompson M. Scoon
Thompson Maxwell Scoon (August 29, 1888 – July 27, 1953) was an American farmer and politician from New York.
Life
He was born on August 29, 1888, in Geneva, Ontario County, New York. He graduated from Cornell University. He was President of the ...
(1888–1953), New York politician
Places
Australia
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Thompson Beach, South Australia
Thompson Beach is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the eastern coastline of Gulf St Vincent about north of the Adelaide city centre. Thompson Beach started as a sub-division in 1980 with boundaries being created ...
, a locality
Bulgaria
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Thompson, Bulgaria
Thompson ( bg, Томпсън ; also transliterated ''Tompsan'', ''Tompsun'', ''Tompsǎn'' or ''Tompson'') is a village in central western Bulgaria, part of Svoge municipality, Sofia Province. As of 2008, it has a population of 838 and the mayor i ...
, a village in Sofia Province
Canada
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Thompson, Manitoba
Thompson (population 13,678) is the largest city in the Northern Region of Manitoba and is situated along the Burntwood River, north of Winnipeg. Originally founded in 1956 as a mining town, it now primarily serves as the "Hub of the North", p ...
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Thompson (electoral district)
Thompson is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1968 from parts of Churchill and Rupertsland, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1969.
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, an electoral district in the above location
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Rural Municipality of Thompson
Thompson is a rural municipality in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba, Canada. It had a population of 1,259 according to the Canada 2006 Census.
The RM was incorporated on 1 November 1908. It took its name from an early settler and its firs ...
, Manitoba
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Thompson River
The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches, the South Thompson River and the North Thompson River. The river ...
, a river in British Columbia
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Thompson Country
Thompson Country, also referred to as The Thompson and sometimes as the Thompson Valley and historically known as the Couteau Country or Couteau District, is a historic geographic region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, more or less de ...
, a region within the basin of the Thompson River
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Thompson Plateau
The Thompson Plateau forms the southern portion of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada, lying to the west of Okanagan Lake, south of the Thompson River and east of (although never adjoining it) the Fraser River. At its most southern p ...
, a landform in the Interior of British Columbia named for the Thompson River
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Thompson-Nicola Regional District
The Thompson–Nicola Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Canada 2021 Census population was 143,680 and the area covers 44,449.49 square kilometres. The administrative offices are in the mai ...
, a regional district in British Columbia
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Thompson Sound (British Columbia)
Thompson Sound is a sound on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Tribune Channel and to the east of Gilford Island, part of the Broughton Archipelago. The headland on the north side of the sound's entrance i ...
, a sound in the area of the Broughton Archipelago
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Thompson Sound, British Columbia
Thompson Sound is an unincorporated locality on the east side of the sound of the same name, which is in the area of Tribune Channel and the Broughton Archipelago in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada
Canada is a cou ...
Thompson, Norfolk
Thompson is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and including Tottington had a population of 341 in 147 households at the 2001 census,Thompson Sound (New Zealand), one of the indentations in the coast of the South island's Fiordland National Park
United States
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Thompson, Alabama
Thompson, also known as Thompson Station, is an unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama
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Thompson, California
Thompson is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 10 feet (3 m). Thompson is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an Americ ...
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Thompson, Connecticut
Thompson is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The town was named after Sir Robert Thompson, an English landholder. The population was 9,189 at the 2020 census. Thompson is located in the northeastern corner of the state and i ...
Thompson, Iowa
Thompson is a city in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. The population was 495 at the time of the 2020 census.
Thompson is home to the Winnebago County Fair, held annually, various agricultural businesses, a public outdoor swimming pool, the ...
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Thompson, Missouri
Thompson is an unincorporated community in Audrain County, Missouri, United States. It is located six miles west of Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern por ...
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Thompson, Nebraska Thompson is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both a ...
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Thompson, New York
Thompson is a town in the southern part of Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 16,550 at the 2020 census.US Census Bureau, 2020 Census Report Thompson, Sullivan County, New York QuickFacts https://www.census.gov/quickfacts ...
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Thompson, North Dakota
Thompson is a city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States. It is part of the "Grand Forks, ND- MN Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "Greater Grand Forks". It is located on the border of Allendale and Walle townships, with Walle on t ...
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Thompson, Ohio
Thompson is an unincorporated community in Thompson Township, Geauga County, in the U.S. state of Ohio at an elevation of 1270 ft (287 m). The Thompson Ledges, an important geologic and topographic feature of northeast Ohio, are located ...
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Thompson, Pennsylvania
Thompson is a borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 255 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Thompson is located at (41.862354, -75.515864).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a tota ...
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Thompson, Wisconsin
Thompson is an unincorporated community in the town of Erin, in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States
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Thompson Island (Massachusetts)
Thompson Island is an island in the Boston Harbor, about 1 mile offshore from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The island is managed by the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center, a non-profit education organization. The island is open to v ...
, an island in Boston Harbor
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Thompson Springs, Utah
Thompson Springs, also officially known for a time as just Thompson, is a small census-designated place in central Grand County, Utah, United States. The population was 39 at the 2010 census. The town is just north of the east–west highway rou ...
, which for a time was also officially known as simply "Thompson"
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Thompson (Amtrak station)
Green River station is a train station in Green River, Utah. It is served by Amtrak's ''California Zephyr'', which runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station has a platform and bus-st ...
, the former train station in Thompson Springs
Other uses
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Thompson Island (South Atlantic)
Thompson Island was a phantom island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic. It was thought to be about north-northeast of Bouvet Island, a small Norway, Norwegian Dependent territory, dependency between South Africa and Antarctica.
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Thomson-CSF
Thomson-CSF was a French company that specialized in the development and manufacture of electronics with a heavy focus upon the aerospace and defence sectors of the market.
Thomson-CSF was formed in 1968 following the merger of Thomson-Houst ...
, a French defense contractor
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Nlaka'pamux
The Nlaka'pamux or Nlakapamuk ( ; ), also previously known as the ''Thompson'', ''Thompson River Salish'', ''Thompson Salish'', ''Thompson River Indians'' or ''Thompson River people'', and historically as the ''Klackarpun'', ''Haukamaugh'', ''Kni ...
, a Canadian First Nation also known as "the Thompson"
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Thompson language
The Thompson language, properly known as Nlaka'pamuctsin, also known as the Nlaka'pamux ('Nthlakampx') language, is an Interior Salishan language spoken in the Fraser Canyon, Thompson Canyon, Nicola Country of the Canadian province of British C ...
, spoken by the Nlaka'pamux
* USS ''Thompson'', two U.S. Navy destroyers
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Thompson submachine gun
The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy Gun", "Chicago Typewriter", "Chicago Piano", “Trench Sweeper” or "Trench Broom") is a blowback-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun, invented by United Stat ...
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Thomson and Thompson
Thomson and Thompson (french: Dupont et Dupond ) are fictional characters in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. They are two incompetent detectives who provide much of the comic relief throughout the ...
(Dupont et Dupond), two clumsy detectives from the ''Tintin'' series
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Thompson (band)
Thompson is a Croatian ethno hard rock band, founded by songwriter and lead vocalist Marko Perković ("Thompson"), who is often identified with the band itself. The lineup consists of Tomislav Mandarić, Ivan Ivanković, Duje Ivić, and Ivica Bi ...
, a Croatian rock band
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Thompson Media Group Thompson Media Group, LLC, originally established as Thompson Publishing Group, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Richard E. Thompson. Thompson Media Group is an American privately held media company that specializes in providing compliance, regulatory, a ...
Thompson/Center Contender
The Thompson/Center Contender is a break-action single-shot pistol or rifle that was introduced in 1967 by Thompson/Center Arms. It can be chambered in cartridges from .22 Long Rifle to .45-70 Government.
History
Warren Center, working in his ba ...
Thompson Lake (disambiguation) Thompson Lake or Lake Thompson may refer to:
;in Canada
*Thompson Lake (Manitoba)
*Thompson Lake (York Region, Ontario), near Wilcox Lake
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*Lake Thompson (Canterbury), one of List of lakes of New Zealand, New Zealand's lakes
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Thomson (disambiguation) Thomson may refer to:
Names
* Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin
* Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson
Businesses and organizations
* SGS-Thomson Mic ...
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Thomsen __NOTOC__
Thomsen is a Danish patronymic surname meaning "son of Tom (or Thomas)", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or ''Tôm'', meaning "twin". There are many varied surname spellings, with the first historical record believed to be found ...