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Sampson the Hospitable Sampson the Hospitable ( el, Σαμψὼν ὁ φιλόξενος, ; died 530 AD) was a citizen of Constantinople who devoted his time to serving the poor of the city. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Churches as well in the Catholic C ...

(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 Sampson Gideon (February 1699 – 17 October 1762) was a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jewish banker who was active in 18th-century City of London, London. Gideon is most prominently known for his financing of the House of Hanover, Hanoverian-Whigs ( ...

(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 Sampson Hopkins (died 1622) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622. Hopkins was the son of Sir Richard Hopkins of Coventry. He was a draper of Coventry and a puritan. In 1605 he sheltered Prin ...

(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 Lloyds Bank * Sampson Lort, Welsh Member of Parliament in 1659 *

Sampson Low Sampson Low (18 November 1797 – 16 April 1886) was a bookseller and publisher in London in the 19th century. Early years Born in London in 1797, he was the son of Sampson Low, printer and publisher, of Berwick Street, Soho. He served a short ...

(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 Sampson Simson (1780 - 7 January 1857) was an Orthodox Jewish American philanthropist most remembered as "the father of Mount Sinai Hospital" and as benefactor, posthumously, to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem, Is ...

(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

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