"Bus" Thompson (1912 – August 29, 2001) was an American football, basketball, track coach and college athletics administrator.
He served as the head football coach at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1950 to 1955.
Born in Gary, West Virginia, Thompson played college football at Bluefield State College in Bluefield, West Virginia, earning black All-American honors in 1935 and 1936 and leading the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association—now known as the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)—in scoring in 1935.
He earned the nickname "Bus" because of his powerful running ability as a fullback.
He was the head basketball coach at Morris Brown College in Atlanta from 1945 to 1950.