Compton (surname)
Compton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Allen T. Compton (1938–2008), justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
- Ann Compton (born 1947), American journalist
- Arthur Compton (1892–1962), American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, of the Compton effect, brother of Karl Taylor Compton and Wilson Martindale Compton, below
- Barnes Compton (1830–1898), Maryland congressman and state officeholder
- Billy Compton (1896–1976), English footballer
- Charles H. Compton (1880–1966), American librarian and educator
- Christian Compton (1929–2006), justice of the supreme court of Virginia
- Cliff Compton (born 1979), American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Domino
- D.G. Compton (born 1930), British science fiction author
- Denis Compton (1918–1997), England cricketer and footballer
- Edward Compton (actor) (1854–1918), English actor-manager
- Edward Theodore Compton (1849–1921), English-born, German artist, illustrator, and mountain climber
- Lady Emily Compton (born 1980), English fashion model, editor, and stylist
- Erik Compton (born 1979), 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
- Herbert Eastwick Compton (1856–1906), English writer
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist
- John Compton, leader of Saint Lucia United Workers Party
- John Compton, London pipe & electronic organ maker
- Karl Taylor Compton (1887–1954), 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 (born 1983), English cricketer
- O'Neal Compton (1951–2019), American film and television actor
- Patrick Compton (born 1952), South African cricketer
- Paul Compton (born 1961), English footballer and football manager
- Richard Compton (1938–2007), American actor
- Richard G. Compton (born 1955), chemist
- Richard Compton (cricketer) (born 1956), South African cricketer
- Robert Harold Compton (1886–1979), South African botanist
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (c. 1674–1743), British statesman
- Virginia Bateman Compton (1853–1940), American-born British actor-manager
- Walter Ames Compton (1911–1990), American Doctor and Japanese sword collector.
- Wayde Compton (born 1972), Canadian writer
- William Compton (courtier) (c. 1482–1528), lover of Henry VIII's notorious mistress, Anne Stafford; the two were prosecuted for adultery
- Wilson Martindale Compton (1890–1967), fifth president of Washington State University, brother of Arthur Compton and Karl Taylor Compton, above
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