Compton (surname)
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Compton is a surname of English origin, and may refer to:
- Ann Compton, journalist
- Arthur Compton, physicist and Nobel Prize winner, of the Compton effect
- 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
- F. E. Compton, publisher
- Fay Compton, actress
- Frances Snow Compton, a pseudonym used by Henry Adams
- Henry Compton, Bishop of London
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist
- Karl Taylor Compton, physicist, one-time president of MIT, brother of Arthur Compton, above
- Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer
- Lynn Compton, lead prosecutor in the Sirhan Sirhan trial and 101st Airborne WWII-veteran
- Richard G. Compton, chemist
- Robert Harold Compton, botanist
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
[edit] See also
- Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist - brother of Fay Compton
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