James Thompson

• James Thompson (cartographer) (active 1785), who produced one of the first maps of York • James Thompson (crime writer) (1964–2014), American-Finnish crime writer • James Thompson (designer) (born 1966), Northern Irish inventor and patent holder in the airline seating industry • James Thompson (surveyor) (1789–1872), who produced the first plat of Chicago • James Thompson (journalist) (1817–1877), journalist and local historian • James D. Thompson (1920–1973), American sociologist, author of Organizations in Action • James Edwin Thompson (1863-1927), English born American surgeon • James Matthew Thompson (1878–1956), English historian and theologian • James Maurice Thompson (1844–1901), American novelist • James R. Thompson Jr. (1936–2017), known as J.R. Thompson, former director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 1986–1989 • James R. Thompson (statistician) (1938–2017), American statistician • James Westfall Thompson (1869–1941), American historian • Jamie Thompson (musician), Canadian musician • Jim Thompson (writer) (1906–1977), American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction • Jimmy Thompson (actor) (1925–2005), British actor • Jimmy Thompson (comics artist) (1907–1949), Canadian artist in the Golden Age of Comics • Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848–1931), country music pioneer ==Business==

• 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) (1906–disappeared 1967), revived the Thai silk industry • James E. Thompson (born 1940), founder, chairman and chief executive of The Crown Worldwide Group ==Military==

• 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 B. Thompson (1843–1875), American soldier who fought in the American Civil War • James E. Thompson Jr. (1935–2017), U.S. Army general • James H. Thompson (1824–1896), American soldier, surgeon and recipient of the Medal of Honor ==Politics==

• James Thompson (jurist) (1806–1874), congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania • James Thompson (Kansas politician), congressional candidate in Kansas in 2018 • James Thompson (Australian politician) (1824–1899), 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 politician) (1829–1892), New York politician • James Thompson (civil servant) (1848–1929), Acting Governor of Madras • James T. Thompson (1849–1921), mayor of Birkenhead, England, c. 1899 • James A. Thompson (New York politician) (c. 1873–1923), New York state senator • James Frederick Thompson (1884–1966), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council • James R. Thompson (1936–2020), known as Jim Thompson, governor of Illinois and member of the 9/11 Commission • James A. Thompson (Texas politician), mayor of Sugar Land, Texas • James Harold Thompson (born 1944), American politician in Florida • Jim Thompson (Oregon politician), member of the Oregon House of Representatives • Jim Thompson (Kentucky politician), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives • James E. W. Thompson (1879–1958), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia • James Thompson (Bahamian politician), member of the Bahamas Parliament • James Thompson (Canadian politician), member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament ==Religion==

• James Thompson (martyr) (died 1582), Catholic priest hanged under Elizabeth I • James Denton Thompson (1856–1924), Bishop of Sodor and Man • Jim Thompson (bishop) (1936–2003), Anglican bishop of Stepney and Bath and Wells ==Sports and games==

Association football • James Thompson (footballer) (1898–1984), English footballer, manager and scout • Jimmy Thompson (footballer, born 1899) (1899–1961), English footballer • Jimmy Thompson (footballer, born 1935), English footballer • Jimmy Thompson (footballer, born 1943) (1943–2020), English footballer (Grimsby Town) Rugby • Jimmy Thompson (rugby league) (born 1948), British rugby league footballer • Jim Thompson (rugby union) (born 1984), Scottish rugby union player • James Thompson (rugby union) (born 1999), New Zealand rugby union player Water sports • James Thompson (swimmer) (1906–1966), Canadian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics • James Thompson (rower) (born 1986), South African rower • Jim Thompson (powerboat racing) (1926–2021), manager of three-time Harmsworth Trophy winner Miss Supertest III • Jim Thompson (designer) (1906–disappeared 1967), American businessman and Olympic sailor Other sports and games • James Thompson (chess player) (1804–1870), American chess master • James Thompson (cricketer) (born 1961), Nevisian cricketer • Jim Thomson (ice hockey, born 1965), Canadian ice hockey player • James Thompson (racing driver) (born 1974), English racing driver • James Thompson (fighter) (born 1978), English mixed martial artist • James Thompson (table tennis) (1889–?), English table tennis player • J. B. Thompson (James Bogne Thompson, 1829–1877), co-creator of the laws of Australian rules football • Jim Thompson (coach) (born 1949), founder and executive director of Positive Coaching Alliance and author • James Thompson (judoka) (born 1964), American judoka • Sandy Thompson (James Thompson, 1901–?), American baseball player ==Other==

• James Thompson (Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford) • Jimmy Thompson (executioner) (1895–1952), Mississippi executioner active from 1940 to 1950 • James Richard "Ricky" Thompson Jr., perpetrator of the murders of John Goosey and Stacy Barnett (West Campus murders) ==See also==