Paul Thompson may refer to:
- Paul Thompson (American football) (born 1983), quarterback for the University of Oklahoma Sooners
- Paul Thompson (basketball) (born 1961), former basketball player
- Paul Thompson (footballer) (born 1973), former Hartlepool United player
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1906) (1906–1991), former ice hockey player
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1968), former Guildford Flames Captain
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey b. 1988), ice hockey player
- Paul Thompson (ice hockey coach) (born 1968), current head coach of Coventry Blaze and Great Britain national ice hockey team
- Paul Thompson (musician) (born 1951), drummer for Roxy Music
- Paul Thompson (professor) (born 1951), management professor at the University of Strathclyde
- Paul Thompson (sinologist) (1931–2007), British sinologist and pioneer in the field of Chinese computer applications
- Paul Thompson (oral historian) (born 1935), sociologist and oral historian
- Paul B. Thompson (novelist) (born 1958), fantasy writer
- Paul B. Thompson (philosopher), philosopher at Michigan State University
- Paul Thompson (rower), Olympic rowing coach for Australia and Great Britain
- Paul H. Thompson, American educator and administrator
- Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock (1784–1852), English nobleman and Whig politician
- Paul Thompson (broadcaster), Australian broadcaster
- Paul Warwick Thompson (born 1959), rector of the Royal College of Art, London, England
- Paul Thompson, author of The Terror Timeline
Famous quotes containing the words paul and/or thompson:
“This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.”
—Alice Paul (1885–1977)
“I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)