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 Lloyd's 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