Sampson

Sampson may refer to:

Military

• HMS Sampson, several Royal Navy ships
• USS Sampson, several US Navy ships
• Sampson-class destroyer, a World War I US Navy class
• Sampson Air Force Base, near Seneca Lake, New York, closed in 1956
• SAMPSON, a multi-function radar system for warships
• Sampson Medal, a military decoration of the United States Navy

Places

Australia

• Sampson Flat, South Australia, a locality
• Sampson Inlet, Western Australia, part of Camden Sound

Byzantine Empire

• Alternative Greek name in the 13th century CE for Priene, after the biblical hero

United States

• Sampson City, Florida, an unincorporated community
• Sampson's Island (Massachusetts), an uninhabited barrier island
• Sampsons Pond, Carver, Massachusetts
• Sampson, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Sampson State Park, Seneca County, New York, at one time Sampson Air Force Base
• Sampson County, North Carolina
• Sampson, Wisconsin, a town
• Sampson, Oconto County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Other places

• Saint Sampson, Guernsey, a parish of Guernsey, Channel Islands
• St Sampson, Cornwall, a civil parish in England
• Sampson (crater)

People

• Sampson the Hospitable (6th century), venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches
• Sampson (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
• Sampson (given name), a list of historical and Biblical figures and fictional characters

Other uses

• Sampson (automobile), American automobile manufactured in 1904
• Sampson (horse), a shire horse that is the tallest horse on record
• Sampson, an American merchant ship involved in the 1793 Sampson Incident
• Locomotive Sampson, built 1855, one of the four South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotives
• SS Admiral Sampson, an American-flagged cargo and passenger steamship, 1898–1914
• St Sampson's Church, Golant, Cornwall, England

See also

• Saint-Samson (disambiguation)
• Samson (disambiguation)
• Simpson (disambiguation)