Thorndike

Thorndike or Thorndyke may refer to:

People

 * Andrew Thorndike (1909–1979), a German film director
 * Ashley Horace Thorndike (1871–1933), an American educator
 * Augustus Thorndike (1896–1986), an American physician
 * Edward Thorndike (1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist
 * Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672), the second wife of John Proctor, daughter of John Thorndike
 * Frances Cope (1902–1982), Elizabeth Frances Thorndike, an American mathematician, daughter of Edward Thorndike
 * Guillermo Thorndike (1940–2009), a Peruvian journalist and writer
 * Helen Louise Thorndyke, pseudonym for the multiple authors of the Honey Bunch book series
 * Herbert Thorndike (1598–1672), an English academic and clergyman
 * Israel Thorndike (1755–1832), an American sailor, merchant, and politician
 * John Thorndike (settler) (1611/12–1668), one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, brother of Herbert Thorndike
 * John Lowell Thorndike (1926–2020), an American purveyor of music and non-profit organizations, president of the Harvard Club of Boston
 * John Thorndike, (b. 1942), an American writer
 * Joseph J. Thorndike (1913–2005), an American editor and writer
 * Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an American historian, brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike
 * Robert L. Thorndike (1910–1990), an American psychologist, son of Edward Thorndike
 * Robert M. Thorndike (born 1943), an American psychologist, son of Robert L. Thorndike
 * Russell Thorndike (1885–1972), a British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike
 * Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), a British actress
 * W. L. Thorndyke, perpetrator of the Maggie Murphy hoax

Fictional characters

 * Dr. Thorndyke, a fictional detective in novels by R. Austin Freeman
 * Chris Thorndyke, a human boy in the Sonic X anime television series
 * Key Thorndyke, fictional newspaper magnate in the 1948 film State of the Union (film)
 * Peter Thorndyke, villain in the 1968 film The Love Bug
 * Dr. Richard Thorndyke, main character in the 1977 film High Anxiety

Places

 * Thorndike, Maine, a town in the United States

Other

 * Kennedy–Thorndike experiment
 * Thorndyke (TV series), a 1964 BBC television series