Sports personalities

• Don Thompson (American football)
  Don Thompson (American football)
  Robert Donald Thompson was a professional football player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only season in the National Football League in 1926. He grew up in Dayton, Indiana and later attended the University of Redlands.-Notes:...
  
  , American player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926
• Don Thompson (baseball)
  Don Thompson (baseball)
  Donald Newlin Thompson was a Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder for the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1949 to 1954.-Baseball career:...
  
   (born 1923), American player for the Boston Braves in 1949 and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951 and 1953–54
• Don Thompson (athlete)
  Don Thompson (athlete)
  Donald James Thompson MBE was a British athlete. He was the only British man to win a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics, held in Rome, in the men's 50 km walk. He also won a bronze medal at the 1962 European Championships, also for the 50 km walk.Thompson was born in Hillingdon,...
  
   (1933–2006), English race walker who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
• Don Thomson, Jr.
  Don Thomson, Jr.
  Don Thomson Jr. is a Canadian racing driver in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series. He drove the #4 Home Hardware Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS for Fitzpatrick Motorsports for more the two decades before moving over in 2011 to the drive the #8 Dodge becoming teammates with Jason Hathaway.-Racing...
  
   (born 1962), Canadian racing car driver who held the top spot in the CASCAR Super Series from 2001 to 2005
• Donald Thompson (fencer)
  Donald Thompson (fencer)
  Donald Thompson is an American Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
   (born 1928), American Olympic fencer

Others

• Donald Thomson
  Donald Thomson
  Donald Fergusson Thomson, OBE was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist who was largely responsible for turning the Caledon Bay crisis into a "decisive moment in the history of Aboriginal-European relations." He is remembered as a friend of the Yolngu people, and as a champion of...
  
   (1901–1970), Australian anthropologist and ornithologist who studied the lives of Indigenous Australians
• Sir Donald Thompson
  Donald Thompson
  Sir Donald Thompson was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1979 until 1997.Thompson attended Holy Trinity School, Halifax, and Hipperholme Grammar School...
  
   (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)
  Don Thompson (musician)
  Donald Winston Thompson, OC is a Canadian jazz musician who plays bass, piano, and vibes. Thompson formed part of the Toronto Quartet of Paul Desmond during the mid seventies, and that effort produced two stellar albums. Other personnel on those dates, mostly at Bourbon Street in Toronto, were...
  
   (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
  Watchmen (film)
  Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons...
  
  ) 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)