List of Famous people named Sampson

Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital in Birmingham, England. He pioneered aseptic surgery, and, in 1880 invented Gamgee Tissue, an absorbent cotton wool and gauze surgical dressing.

Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley FRS, known as Sir Sampson Gideon from 1759 until 1789, was the son of another Sampson Gideon (1699–1762), a Jewish banker in the City of London who advised the British government in the 1740s and 1750s, and his wife Jane, daughter of Charles Ermell of London.

Sampson Gideon was a British-born Sephardic Jewish banker, operating out of the City of London. Gideon bankrolled the Hanovarian-Whig government's suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, subsequently becoming a trusted "adviser of the Government," and a supporter of the Jew Bill of 1753. James Picciotto in his Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1875) described Gideon as the "Rothschild of his day" and the "pillar of state credit."