Thornton is an English and Scottish surname, and may refer to:
Abraham Thornton
Al Thornton, basketball player
Alfred Thornton (1853–1906), English footballer from the 1870s
Alvin Thornton
Andre Thornton (born 1949), American baseball player
Andrew Thornton, pro jockey
Andrew C. Thornton II
Anne Thornton, cabin boy and ship's cook
Archibald Thornton
A. G. (Archibald George) Thornton novelist and journalist
Barry Thornton, RAF officer
Barry Thornton (cricketer) (born 1941), Australian cricketer
Big Mama Thornton, musician
Billy Bob Thornton (born 1955), American actor
Bonnell Thornton, parodist
Bret Thornton
Bruce Thornton, classicist
Bruce Thornton (cornerback)
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Charley Thornton
David Thornton (musician), British euphonium player
David Thornton (actor), actor and husband to Cyndi Lauper
David Thornton (American football), linebacker for the Tennessee Titans
De'mario Monte Thornton, real name of Raz-B, member of boy band B2K
Edward Thornton (disambiguation)
Eleanor Velasco Thornton, actress and model
Elena Mumm Thornton socialite, European aristocrat, editor
Elizabeth Thornton, writer
Flora L. Thornton
Frank Thornton (1921–2013), English actor
George Thornton (disambiguation)
Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton
Grant Thornton
Henry Thornton (disambiguation)
Henry Thornton (abolitionist), campaigner against the slave trade
Henry Thornton (railroader), president of Canadian National Railway
Henry Hermann Mumm Thornton banker; businessman; grandson of Sir Henry W. Thornton
James Thornton (disambiguation)
James Thornton (naval officer) (1826–1875)
James Worth Thornton, businessman and son of Sir Henry Worth Thornton
Jim Thornton
Joe Thornton, NHL hockey player
John Thornton (disambiguation)
John L. Thornton
John R. Thornton
John Wingate Thornton, lawyer, historian, author
John Thornton (philanthropist)
Kalen Thornton
Kate Thornton, English television presenter
Kathryn Thornton, astronaut
Keith Thornton, hip hop artist Kool Keith
Kevin Thornton (chef), Irish Michelin starred chef
Kevin Thornton (footballer), Irish footballer
Khyri Thornton (born 1989), American football player
Kirk Thornton
Kristin Thornton
Lawrence Thornton
Leslie Thornton, American filmmaker and artist
Leslie Thornton (sculptor) (1925–2016), English sculptor
Lou Thornton, former major league baseball player
Louise Thornton
Malcolm Thornton
Marcia Thornton Jones, best-selling children's author
Marcus Thornton (disambiguation)
Mark Thornton
Matt Thornton (disambiguation)
Matthew Thornton, first president of New Hampshire House of Representatives
Melanie Thornton, musician
Melody Thornton
Michael Thornton (disambiguation)
Michael B. Thornton
Omar Thornton, murderer of 8 and suicide, see Hartford Distributors shooting
Patricia H. Thornton (born 1960s), American organizational theorist
Randy Thornton
Richard Thornton, millionaire 'Duke of Danzig'
Robert Thornton (disambiguation)
Robert Thornton, jockey
Robert L. Thornton
Robert Lyster Thornton
Robert Stirton Thornton
Roger Thornton
Samantha Thornton (born 1966), Australian basketball player
Samuel Thornton (disambiguation)
Sara Thornton (disambiguation)
Sarah L. Thornton (born 1965), cultural sociologist
Scott Thornton, ice hockey player
Sean Thornton
Sean Thornton (The Quiet Man)
Shawn Thornton, ice hockey player
Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
Simon Thornton
Tex Thornton
Tiffany Thornton, American actress
Timothy Thornton, American musician
Walter Thornton
William Thornton, architect
William E. Thornton, astronaut
William Patton Thornton, doctor
William Wheeler Thornton, Judge, Deputy Attorney General of Indiana, author, and State Supreme Court Librarian
William Thomas Thornton, British economist, author, civil servant
Willie Thornton
Zach Thornton
Zack Thornton (born 1988), American baseball player
