Sampson (surname)
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Sampson is a surname, and may refer to:
Fictional characters
- Angus SampsonAngus SampsonAngus Murray Lincoln Sampson is an Australian actor, voice-over artist, director and writer based in Los Angeles and Melbourne.-Early life:Sampson was born in Sydney, Australia. A former ward of the state, he was educated at the Trinity Grammar School in Sydney prior to winning a place at The...
(born 1975), Australian actor - Anthony SampsonAnthony SampsonAnthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford and served with the Royal Navy from 1944-47. During the 1950s he edited the magazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa...
(1926–2004), British journalist and non-fiction writer - Catherine SampsonCatherine SampsonCatherine Sampson is a British writer of crime/thriller fiction. Her first four novels were published by Pan Macmillan. She has also worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times and other publications.- Biography :...
(born 1962), British novelist - Charles Rumney SamsonCharles Rumney SamsonAir Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC was a British naval aviation pioneer. He also operated the first British armoured vehicles in combat...
(1883–1931), British naval aviation and armoured vehicle pioneer - Chris SampsonChris SampsonChristopher Keith Sampson is an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. Sampson is 6'0". Sampson attended Texas Tech University, where he played for the Red Raiders....
(born 1978), American baseball player - Clay SampsonClay SampsonClay Sampson is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League . Clay debuted for South Adelaide in 1994 before being drafted and going on to play 64 AFL games at three different AFL clubs.He returned to South...
(born 1976), Australian rules footballer - David S. SampsonDavid S. SampsonDavid Sampson is a prolific composer and trumpet player currently living in New Jersey. He is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Colonial Symphony Orchestra and plays with them as well....
(born 1951), American composer - Daz SampsonDaz SampsonDarren "Daz" Sampson is a British dance music producer, musician and singer-songwriter.Up until 2006, when he represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, Sampson was best known for his commercial dance music, often reworkings of older songs as a solo act and as a member of various...
(born 1974), British dance music producer - Dean SampsonDean SampsonDean Sampson is a former Rugby League player for Castleford Tigers. Sampson played for Castleford from 1987 to 2002 when he retired. He was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand....
(born 1967), English rugby league player - Deborah SampsonDeborah SampsonDeborah Samson Gannett , better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war...
(1760–1827), early American soldier - Doug SampsonDoug SampsonDouglas Gary Sampson was an early drummer for Iron Maiden and first to ever record with the band. He was in the band from 1977 to 1979....
(born 1957), English drummer - Edgar SampsonEdgar SampsonEdgar Melvin Sampson was a composer, arranger, saxophonist, and violinist...
(1907–1973), American composer - Gary SampsonGary SampsonGary Edward Sampson is a retired American ice hockey player.Born in Canada and raised in the United States, Sampson played college hockey at Boston College and was part of the U.S...
(born 1959), Canadian-born American hockey player - Geoffrey SampsonGeoffrey SampsonGeoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex....
(born 1944), English linguist - George SampsonGeorge SampsonGeorge Jennifer Sampson is a street dancer and actor from Warrington, England. He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.-2007 series:...
(born 1993), English breakdancer, winner of Britain's Got Talent 2008 at age 14 - Gordie SampsonGordie SampsonGordie Sampson is a singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia, Canada.He has written songs for Carrie Underwood , Martina McBride , LeAnn Rimes , and George Canyon and produced and sound engineered...
(born 1971), Canadian singer-songwriter - Henry Sampson (disambiguation)
- Holly SampsonHolly SampsonHolly Joy Sampson, also known as Nicolette Foster, Andrea Michaels or Zoe is an American pornographic actress and model. She is noted for playing the title role in the Emmanuelle 2000 series of films.-Early life:...
(born 1973), American pornographic actress - Jamal SampsonJamal SampsonJamal Wesley Sampson is an American professional basketball player.A power forward/center, Sampson is the cousin of the 1983 NBA Draft's number one overall pick Ralph Sampson...
(born 1983), American basketball player - Jill SampsonJill SampsonSusan Jill Sampson, MSC of Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, is a semi-retired Canadian veterinarian.Dr Sampson founded Poco a Poco in 1995 to provide medical, surgical and dental relief in Guatemala...
, Canadian veterinarian - John A. SampsonJohn A. SampsonJohn Albertson Sampson was a gynecologist who studied endometriosis.Sampson was born near Troy, New York and graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1899. After completing his training in gynecology, he settled in Albany, New York...
(1873–1946), American gynecologist - Kelvin SampsonKelvin SampsonKelvin Sampson is an assistant coach of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He previously was a men's college basketball coach at Montana Tech , Washington State University , the University of Oklahoma and Indiana University .-Early life and coaching:Sampson was born in the...
(born 1955), American basketball coach - Kevin SampsonKevin SampsonKevin M. Sampson is an American football tackle who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft...
(born 1981), American football player - Kyle SampsonKyle SampsonD. Kyle Sampson was the Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He resigned on March 12, 2007, amid the controversy surrounding the firing of eight United States Attorneys in 2006 and was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in July 2010...
, American lawyer and political appointee - Malcolm SampsonMalcolm SampsonMalcolm "Mal" Sampson is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s who at club level has played for Wakefield Trinity , and Hull, playing at , i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums....
, English rugby league player - Marty SampsonMarty SampsonMarty Sampson is a Christian songwriter and a worship leader at the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. Originally featuring in the Youth Alive albums of the late 1990s, he was one of original Hillsong United worship leaders. Guitar is his main instrument and he occasionally plays the piano. He...
(born 1979), Australian songwriter - Nic SampsonNic SampsonNic Sampson is a New Zealand actor mostly known for playing Chip Thorn in Power Rangers: Mystic Force and the voice of the Sentinel Knight in Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive...
(born 1986), New Zealand actor - Nikos SampsonNikos SampsonNikos Sampson was the de facto president of Cyprus who succeeded Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, in 1974. Sampson was a journalist and a member of EOKA, which rose against the British colonial administration, seeking Enosis of the island of Cyprus with Greece...
(1935–2001), Cypriot politician - Paul SampsonPaul Sampson (rugby player)Paul Christian Sampson is an English rugby union footballer who plays at wing or full-back for London Welsh...
(born 1977), English rugby union player - Ralph SampsonRalph SampsonRalph Lee Sampson, Jr. is a retired American college and professional basketball player.A 7-foot-4 phenom, three-time College Player of the Year, and No...
(born 1960), American basketball player - Ralph Allen SampsonRalph Allen SampsonRalph Allen Sampson FRS was a British astronomer.He was born in Skull, Co Cork to James Sampson, a Cornish-born metallurgical chemist. The family moved to Liverpool and Sampson attended the Liverpool Institute and then graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1888...
(1866–1939), British astronomer - Richard SampsonRichard SampsonRichard Sampson was an English clergyman and composer of sacred music, who was Anglican bishop of Chichester and subsequently of Coventry and Lichfield.-Biography:...
(died 1554), ex-Catholic Anglican bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry - Rob SampsonRob SampsonRob Sampson is a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Mike Harris.-Career:Sampson has a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MBA from Queen's...
(born 1955), Canadian politician - Sampson the HospitableSampson the HospitableSampson the Hospitable was a citizen of Constantinople who devoted his time to serving the poor of the city. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches.- Life :...
(died ca. 530), venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches. - Short Sleeve SampsonShort Sleeve SampsonDan DiLucchio is an American Midget professional wrestler best known by his ring name Short Sleeve Sampson. Sampson currently works on the independent circuit, mainly for Micro Wrestling Federation, and TNT Pro Wrestling...
, American wrestler - Steve SampsonSteve SampsonSteve Sampson is a soccer coach and the former head coach of the United States men's national team and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer...
(born 1957), American soccer coach - Tony SampsonTony SampsonTony Sampson is a former Canadian voice and television actor who was based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He played the role of Flash in the Canadian television drama The Odyssey from 1992 to 1994, but was probably best known as Eddy in Ed, Edd, n Eddy...
, Retired Canadian actor - Will SampsonWill SampsonWill Sampson was an American actor and artist.-Life and career:Sampson, a Native American Muscogee , was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Sampson's most notable roles were as "Chief Bromden" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as "Taylor the Medicine Man" in the horror film Poltergeist II...
(1933–1987), American actor and painter - William Sampson (disambiguation)
Fictional characters
- Sampson, a character in the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
- Dominie SampsonDominie SampsonDominie Sampson is a schoolmaster in Scott's Guy Mannering, "a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life."...
, character from Guy ManneringGuy ManneringGuy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting... - Kid Sampson, a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22
- Kyle Sampson (GL)Kyle Sampson (GL)Kyle Sampson was a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light. He was played by Larkin Malloy from 1984 to 1987. Kyle was the result of an affair between Cardinal John Malone and Sally Gleason. He was the President of Sampson Industries which caused him to become an enemy to...
, a character on the television show The Guiding Light