Nelson Kerr Thompson (November 18, 1888 – September 20, 1968) was an American football, basketball and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Ursinus College from 1916 to 1917 and Slippery Rock State Teachers College—now known as Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania—from 1920 to 1945, compiling a career college football coaching record of 133–64–5.^[1][2] Thompson was the head basketball coach at Ursinus from 1916 to 1918 and Slippery Rock from 1919 to 1926 and from 1930 to 1946, tallying a career college basketball mark of 269–144.^[3]

Thompson was born on November 18, 1888, in Butler County, Pennsylvania, to Nelson and Jessie Kerr Thompson. He graduated from Ursinus in 1912 and later earned a degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Thompson died on September 20, 1968, at Bashline Memorial Hospital in Grove City, Pennsylvania.^[4][5]