Sampson Hele (c. 1582 – c. 1655) of Gnaton and of Halwell, Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1624.
Hele was born c. 1582 into the junior line of a minor gentry family which had settled in Devon since at least the twelfth century.
[1] Upon his father's death in 1609, he inherited around 850 acres, including three manors, most of which was located in the south-west of the county, near Plymouth and Plympton.
[1] In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle on the interest of his cousin Sir Warwick Hele.
A Royalist during the Civil War, he was appointed Sheriff of Devon for 1621,[2] and then elected MP for Tavistock in 1624 on the interest of his brother-in-law, Sir Francis Glanville.