Ken Thompson (disambiguation)

Ken Thompson (disambiguation)

Ken Thompson may refer to:

* Ken Thompson (programmer) (born 1943), who wrote the B programming language (the precursor to C), and was a principal creator of the UNIX operating system.
* Sir Kenneth Thompson, 1st Baronet (1909 − 1984), British politician from the 1950s to the 1980s.
* G. Kennedy Thompson (born 1950), American business executive, who was chairman and CEO of Wachovia Corporation.
* Kenneth Thompson (ice hockey), a British ice hockey player in the early 1900s.

See also

* Kenneth Thomson (1923 − 2006), Canadian billionaire and media tycoon.


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