Samson (name)
Samson can be either a masculine given name or a surname. It may refer to the following people:
Given name
- Samson of Dol, British saint
- Samson of Brechin, first known Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
- Samson of Tottington, English Benedictine monk and Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds
- Samson (bishop of Worcester), chaplain to William the Conqueror, later Bishop of Worcester
- Samson Abramsky, British computer scientist
- Samson Adetayo Adeleke, Nigerian actor
- Samson Felix Amarasinghe, Sri Lankan Sinhala civil servant
- Samson Ebukam, American football player
- Samson Gombe, Kenyan scientist and professor
- Samson Johnson, Togolese basketball player
- Samson Kandie, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Samson Kitur, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Samson Lee, Welsh rugby union player
- Samson Makintsev, Russian-Iranian general
- Samson Mulugeta, Ethiopian footballer
- Samson Mwita Marwa, Kenyan member of parliament
- Samson Nacua, American football player
- Samson Okunlola, American football player
- Samson Rausuk, Lithuanian-British librarian and poet
- Samson Tam, Hong Kong politician
Surname
- Charles Rumney Samson, British air commodore and naval aviation pioneer
- Cid Samson, Canadian politician
- Craig Samson, Scottish footballer
- David Samson (rabbi), Orthodox rabbi
- David Samson (baseball), former Miami Marlins president; contestant on Survivor: Cagayan
- Edmé Samson, French possible forger of porcelain and pottery
- Elisabeth Samson, Surinamese coffee plantation owner
- Jérôme Samson, Canadian National Hockey League player for the Carolina Hurricanes
- Joseph Samson, composer
- Leela Samson, Indian bharatanatyam dancer
- Leona D. Samson, American biochemist
- Louis Samson, German footballer
- Michel Samson, Canadian politician
- Paul Samson, British heavy metal guitarist
- Polly Samson, British novelist, songwriter and journalist
- Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer
- Savanna Samson, stage name of American pornographic actress Natalie Oliveros
- Stéphane Samson, French footballer
- Valerie Samson, American composer and ethnomusicologist
Patronymic
- Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer