Sampson (given name)
Sampson is the given name of:
People:
- Sampson the Hospitable, venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches
- Sampson Avard, leader of a band of Mormon vigilantes in Missouri
- Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley, Jewish-British banker in the City of London, son of Sampson Gideon
- Sampson Erdeswicke, English antiquarian
- Sampson Eure, English Member of Parliament
- Sampson Gamgee, British surgeon and indirect namesake of The Lord of the Rings character Sam Gamgee
- Sampson Gideon, Jewish-British banker in the City of London
- Sampson Handley, English surgeon
- Sampson Willis Harris, American politician and lawyer in the South
- Sampson Hele, English Member of Parliament
- Sampson Hopkins, English merchant and Member of Parliament
- Sampson Hosking, Australian rules footballer and coach
- Sampson Kempthorne, English architect
- Sampson Lennard, English Member of Parliament
- Sampson Lloyd, various members of a family in Birmingham, England; one co-founded a bank which eventually became Lloyd's Bank
- Sampson Lort, Welsh Member of Parliament in 1659
- Sampson Low, London bookseller and publisher
- Sampson Mathews, American soldier, legislator and college founder
- Sampson Moore, engineer based in Liverpool, England
- Sampson Mordan, British silversmith and co-inventor of the first patented mechanical pencil
- Sampson Nanton, journalist and television news presenter in Trinidad and Tobago
- Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian priest and mystic
- Sampson Simson, American philanthropist
Biblical figures:
Fictional Characters
- Sampson, a character in the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
