Sir John Perronet Thompson, KCSI, KCIE (8 March 1873 – 8 August 1935) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he was Political Secretary to the Government of India from 1922 to 1927 and Chief Commissioner of Delhi from 1928 to 1932.

He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge; at Cambridge he was President of the Cambridge Union.