Compton (surname)
Compton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ann Compton, journalist
- Arthur Compton, physicist and Nobel Prize winner, of the Compton effect, brother of Karl Taylor Compton and Wilson Martindale Compton, below
- Barnes Compton, Maryland congressman and state officeholder
- Charles H. Compton (1880–1966), American librarian and educator
- Christian Compton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
- Cliff Compton (born 1979), American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Domino
- D.G. Compton, science fiction author
- Denis Compton, England cricketer and footballer
- Erik Compton, Norwegian-American professional golfer
- F. E. Compton, publisher
- Fay Compton, (1894–1974), English actress
- Francis Compton (Conservative politician) (1824–1915), English lawyer and Conservative MP
- Sir Francis Compton (c. 1629–1716), English soldier and MP for Warwick
- Frances Snow Compton, a pseudonym used by Henry Adams
- Henry Compton, Bishop of London
- Henry Compton (actor), English actor
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist
- John Compton, leader of Saint Lucia United Workers Party
- John Compton, London pipe & electronic organ maker
- Karl Taylor Compton, physicist, one-time president of MIT, brother of Arthur Compton, above, Wilson Martindale Compton, below
- Katie Compton, American bicycle racer
- Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer
- Lynn Compton, lead prosecutor in the Sirhan Sirhan trial and 101st Airborne World War II-veteran
- Nick Compton, English cricketer
- O'Neal Compton, American film and television actor
- Patrick Compton, South African cricketer
- Paul Compton, English footballer and football manager
- Richard Compton, American actor
- Richard G. Compton, chemist
- Richard Compton (cricketer), South African cricketer
- Robert Harold Compton, botanist
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
- Wayde Compton, Canadian writer
- William Compton (courtier), lover of Henry VIII's notorious mistress, Anne Stafford; the two were prosecuted for adultery
- Wilson Martindale Compton, fifth president of Washington State University, brother of Arthur Compton and Karl Taylor Compton, above
See also
- Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), Scottish novelist, brother of Fay Compton
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