Kathleen Best (table tennis)

Cecilia 'Kathleen' Best (married name Thompson), was a female English international table tennis player.

She won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). The following year at the 1953 World Table Tennis Championships she won two medals; a silver medal in the women's team and a bronze in the women's doubles with Ermelinde Wertl.

At the 1954 World Table Tennis Championships she picked up her fourth and fifth World Championship medals; winning a bronze in the women's team and a silver in the women's doubles with Ann Haydon-Jones.

She married her coach Alan Thompson in 1952 in Yorkshire and won two English Open titles.