Compton (surname)
Compton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Allen T. Compton, justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
- Ann Compton, journalist
- Arthur Compton, physicist and Nobel Prize winner, of the Compton effect, brother of Karl Taylor Compton and Wilson Martindale Compton, below
- Brendan Compton, production test pilot at Hawker Beechcraft Corporation in Wichita, Kansas
- Barnes Compton, Maryland congressman and state officeholder
- 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
- D.G. Compton, science fiction author
- Denis Compton, England cricketer and footballer
- Edward Compton, 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 , English lawyer and Conservative MP
- Sir Francis Compton, English soldier and MP for Warwick
- Frances Snow Compton, a pseudonym used by Henry Adams
- Henry Compton, Bishop of London
- Henry Compton, 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, 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, South African cricketer
- Robert Harold Compton, botanist
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
- Virginia Bateman Compton, American-born British actor-manager
- Wayde Compton, Canadian writer
- William Compton, 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
