Compton (surname)
Compton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Allen T. Compton, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
- Ann Compton, American journalist
- Arthur Compton, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, of the Compton effect
- Barnes Compton, Maryland congressman and state officeholder
- Billy Compton, English footballer
- Carla Compton, Canadian politician
- Charles H. Compton, American librarian and educator
- Christian Compton, justice of the supreme court of Virginia
- Cliff Compton, American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Domino
- David G. Compton, British science fiction author
- Denis Compton, England cricketer and footballer
- Edward Compton (actor), English actor-manager
- Edward Theodore Compton, English-born, German artist, illustrator, and mountain climber
- Lady Emily Compton, English fashion model, editor, and stylist
- Erik Compton, Norwegian-American professional golfer
- F. E. Compton, publisher
- Fay Compton, English actress
- Francis Compton (Conservative politician), English lawyer and Conservative MP
- Sir Francis Compton, English soldier and MP for Warwick
- Frances Snow Compton, a pseudonym used by Henry Adams
- Freeman W. Compton, justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
- Harry Compton, Canadian soldier
- Henry Compton, Bishop of London
- Henry Compton (actor), English actor
- Herbert Eastwick Compton, 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, physicist, president of MIT
- Katie Compton, American bicycle racer
- Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer
- Lynn Compton, lead prosecutor in the Sirhan Sirhan trial
- Nick Compton, English cricketer
- O'Neal Compton, American film and television actor
- Patrick Compton, South African cricketer
- Paul Compton, English footballer and football manager
- Paul Justin Compton, Australian computer scientist
- Richard Compton, American actor
- Richard G. Compton, chemist
- Richard Compton (cricketer), South African cricketer
- Robert Harold Compton, South African botanist
- Sean Compton, American Broadcast executive
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British statesman and prime minister
- Virginia Frances Bateman or Bateman Compton, American-born British actor-manager
- Walter Ames Compton, American Doctor and Japanese sword collector.
- Wayde Compton, Canadian writer
- William Compton (courtier), lover of Henry VIII's mistress, Anne Stafford
- Wilson Martindale Compton, fifth president of Washington State University