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Sampson (given name)

Sampson is the given name of:

People:

  • Sampson the Hospitable (died c. 530), venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches
  • Sampson Avard (1800–1869), leader of a band of Mormon vigilantes in Missouri
  • Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley (1744–1824), Jewish-British banker in the City of London, son of Sampson Gideon (see below)
  • Sampson Erdeswicke (died 1603), English antiquarian
  • Sampson Eure (died 1659), English Member of Parliament
  • Sampson Gamgee (1828–1886), British surgeon and indirect namesake of The Lord of the Rings character Sam Gamgee
  • Sampson Gideon (1699–1762), Jewish-British banker in the City of London
  • Sampson Handley (1872–1962), English surgeon
  • Sampson Willis Harris (1809–1857), American politician and lawyer in the South
  • Sampson Hele (1582–1655), English Member of Parliament
  • Sampson Hopkins (died 1622), English merchant and Member of Parliament
  • Sampson Hosking (1888–1974), Australian rules footballer and coach
  • Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873), English architect
  • Sampson Lennard (died 1615), English Member of Parliament
  • Sampson Lloyd, various members of a family in Birmingham, England; one co-founded a bank which eventually became Lloyds Bank
  • Sampson Lort, Welsh Member of Parliament in 1659
  • Sampson Low (1797–1886), London bookseller and publisher
  • Sampson Mathews (c. 1737 – 1807), American soldier, legislator and college founder
  • Sampson Moore (1812–1877), engineer based in Liverpool, England
  • Sampson Mordan (1790–1843), British silversmith and co-inventor of the first patented mechanical pencil
  • Sampson Nanton (born 1977), journalist and television news presenter in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Sampson Sievers (1900–1979), Russian Orthodox Christian priest and mystic
  • Sampson Simson (1780–1857), American philanthropist

Biblical figures

  • Samson or Sampson, the man of extraordinary strength in the Book of Judges in the Bible

Fictional characters

  • Sampson, a character in the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
  • Sampson, a character from the animated television series Camp Lazlo

See also