Ian Thomson (born 12 July 1955) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.
[2] An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative front row forward, he played club football for Manly-Warringah, with whom he won the 1978 NSWRFL Premiership, as well as Balmain.
He then spent two seasons with Quanbeyan under coach Don Furner, earning representative honours with Country Firsts in 1976.
[6] The following year he returned to the Sea Eagles and reached the Grand Final which was eventually lost to the Parramatta Eels.
In 1983 Thomson broke his arm in the first minute of a mid-season match against Eastern Suburbs[7] which resulted in a further break, four operations and the insertion of a steel plate, in 1984 Ian mode to England Rugby Club, Swinton Lions, where he represented Swinton Lions in the position of prop forward, playing 12 times, before moving back to Australia.