George Thompson may refer to:
- George Thompson (abolitionist) (1804–1878), British anti-slavery lecturer and British MP for Tower Hamlets
- George Thompson (aviator) (1888–1912), one of Colorado's earliest aviators
- George Thompson (basketball) (born 1947), American basketball player
- George Thompson (cricketer) (1877–1943), English Test cricketer
- George Thompson (MP) (1804–1895), founder of the Aberdeen Line and Liberal MP for Aberdeen
- George Thompson (politician) (born 1928), Scottish National Party politician, MP for Galloway
- George Thompson (VC) (1920–1945), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- George Thompson (Wisconsin politician) (1918–1982), Wisconsin attorney general
- George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth (1921–2008), Scottish newspaperman and politician
- George A. Thompson (geologist), Stanford geophysicist, winner of the Penrose Medal
- George W. Thompson (1806–1888), Virginia politician and lawyer
- George W. Thompson (Medal of Honor) (1847–?), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- George A. Thompson (1921–2000), American inventor and businessman
- George Thompson (Australian politician) (born 1945), former Australian politician
- George Lowther Thompson (1786–1841), British Member of Parliament for Haslemere, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
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Famous quotes containing the words george and/or thompson:
“Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men’s room whenever an important illegal decision was made.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Cry,—clinging Heaven by the hems;
And lo, Christ walking on the water
Not of Gennesareth, but Thames!”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)