Don Thompson

Donald Thompson, Donald Thomson, Don Thompson or Don Thomson may refer to:

Sports personalities

• Don Thompson (American football), American player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926
• Don Thompson (baseball) (1923–2009), American player for the Boston Braves in 1949 and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951 and 1953–54
• Don Thompson (athlete) (1933–2006), English race walker who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
• Don Thomson, Jr. (born 1962), Canadian racing car driver who held the top spot in the CASCAR Super Series from 2001 to 2005
• Donald Thompson (fencer) (born 1928), American Olympic fencer

Others

• Donald Thomson (1901–1970), Australian anthropologist and ornithologist who studied the lives of Indigenous Australians
• Sir Donald Thompson (1931–2005), English Conservative Party politician who served in Parliament from 1979 to 1997
• Don Thompson (Comics Buyer's Guide) (1935–1994), American comic book historian and prolific author of memorabilia articles
• Don Thompson (musician) (born 1940), Canadian jazz pianist and bass player who has been a part of Toronto jazz scene since the 1960s
• Don Thompson (actor), American actor who, between 1986 and 2009, appeared in feature films (Watchmen) and over 70 TV series episodes

Fictional characters

• Donald Thompson (A Nightmare on Elm Street), American police lieutenant seen in the first Nightmare on Elm Street film (1984) and the third (1987)