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Compton is both a place and family/given name of English origin, and may refer to:

    Compton
        Places
            Canada
            England
            United States
        People
        Others

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Places
Compton serves as a name for many communities in England, the United States and Canada. It should not be confused with West Compton.

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Canada

Compton County, Quebec

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England

Cassey Compton, Gloucestershire

Compton, West Riding of Yorkshire

Compton, Derbyshire

Compton, South Staffordshire

Compton, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

Compton, Wiltshire

Compton, Test Valley, Hampshire

Compton, Winchester, Hampshire

Compton, Berkshire - divided into East and West Compton

Compton, West Sussex

Compton, Guildford, Surrey

Compton, Plymouth, Devon

Compton, South Hams, Devon

Compton Abbas, Dorset

Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire

Compton Bassett, Wiltshire

Compton Beauchamp, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)

Compton Bishop, Somerset

Compton Chamberlain, Wiltshire

Compton Common, Somerset

Compton Dando, Somerset

Compton Dundon, Somerset

Compton Durville, Somerset

Compton End, Hampshire

Compton Green, Gloucestershire

Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire

Compton Martin, Somerset

Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset

Compton Valence, Dorset

West Compton, Dorset

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United States

Compton, California

see also West Compton, California

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People

Ann Compton, journalist

Arthur Compton, physicist

Christian Compton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia

Denis Compton, England cricketer and footballer

F. E. Compton, publisher

Fay Compton, actress

Frances Snow Compton, a pseudonym used by Henry Adams

Henry Compton, Bishop of London

Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist

Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer

Robert Harold Compton, botanist

Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist - brother of Fay Compton

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Others

Straight Outta Compton, a rap record by NWA

Compton scattering, an effect observed when photons interact with electrons.

Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, an orbital observatory.

Compton's Encyclopedia

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