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Sampson may refer to:


Military

* , several Royal Navy ships * , 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 Priene (; ) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek city of Ionia (and member of the Ionian League) located at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about north of what was then the course of the Maeander River (now called the Büyük Menderes Rive ...
, 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) {{disambiguation, geo