Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to the theory o ...
(1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist
* Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672), the second wife of John Proctor, daughter of John Thorndike
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Frances Cope
Frances Cope, also known as Frances Thorndike (August 19, 1902 - May 14, 1982), was an American mathematician who published on irregular differential equations. The Thorndike nomogram, a two-dimensional diagram of the Poisson distribution, is named ...
(1902–1982), , an American mathematician, daughter of Edward Thorndike
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Guillermo Thorndike
Guillermo Thorndike Losada (April 25, 1940 – March 9, 2009) was a Peruvian journalist and writer, who helped to found several important newspapers within Peru. Thorndike helped to found ''La República'', one of the country's main national daili ...
(1940–2009), a Peruvian journalist and writer
* Helen Louise Thorndyke, pseudonym for the multiple authors of the
Honey Bunch
Honey is a sweet and Viscosity, viscous substance made by several Bee, bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of ...
book series
* Herbert Thorndike (1598–1672), an English academic and clergyman
* Israel Thorndike (1755–1832), an American sailor, merchant, and politician
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John Thorndike (settler)
John Thorndike (February 23, 1611 or 1612 – interred 1668) was one of the first founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Other sources show his birth date as born February 1610/11.
Biography
Thorndike was a farmer and cowherd from Great ...
(1611/12–1668), one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, brother of Herbert Thorndike
* John Lowell Thorndike (1926–2020), an American purveyor of music and non-profit organizations, president of the Harvard Club of Boston
* John Thorndike, (b. 1942), an American writer
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Joseph J. Thorndike
Joseph Jacobs Thorndike (July 29, 1913 – November 22, 2005) was an American editor and writer.Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an American historian, brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike
* Robert L. Thorndike (1910–1990), an American psychologist, son of Edward Thorndike
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Robert M. Thorndike
Robert M. Thorndike (born March 2, 1943) is an American psychology professor known for several definitive textbooks on research procedures and psychometrics.
He earned his B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from th ...
(born 1943), an American psychologist, son of Robert L. Thorndike
* Russell Thorndike (1885–1972), a British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike
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Sybil Thorndike
Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson (24 October 18829 June 1976) was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969.
Trained in her youth as a concert pianist, Thorndike turned to the stage when a medical problem with her ...
(1882–1976), a British actress
* W. L. Thorndyke, perpetrator of the
Maggie Murphy hoax
The Maggie Murphy hoax was a hoax perpetrated in 1895 by W. L. Thorndyke. He created an image that depicted farmer Joseph B. Swan holding what appeared to be a giant potato. The photo rapidly spread around the United States, and appeared in a panel ...
Fictional characters
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Dr. Thorndyke
Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943). Thorndyke was described by his author as a 'medical jurispractitioner': originally a medica ...
, a fictional detective in novels by R. Austin Freeman
* Chris Thorndyke, a human boy in the Sonic X anime television series
* Key Thorndyke, fictional newspaper magnate in the 1948 film State of the Union (film)
* Peter Thorndyke, villain in the 1968 film The Love Bug
* Dr. Richard Thorndyke, main character in the 1977 film High Anxiety