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