Duncan Fulton Thompson MBE (14 March 1895 – 17 May 1980) was an Australian veteran of both WWI and WWII and a rugby league footballer, coach and administrator.

He was wounded on active service in WWI and has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century,[1] and is regarded as the father of modern coaching.

Half-way across the Tasman, bites from the ship-bred vermin led to Thompson and "Chook" Fraser falling victim to blood-poisoned legs.

In 1929 the Duncan Thompson Stand at the North Sydney Oval was named after him as well as the main grandstand at Clive Berghofer Stadium in Toowoomba.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and in August 2006 was named at halfback in the North Sydney Bears' Team of the Century.

[10] In 2008, rugby league in Australia's centenary year, Thompson was named as half-back and coach of the Toowoomba and South West Team of the Century.