Thomas Hansen Kingo (15 December 1634 – 14 October 1703) was a Danish bishop, poet and hymnwriter born in Slangerup, near Copenhagen.

His father was born in Crail, Scotland, and moved to Helsingør, Denmark, as a two-year old; he became a weaver of modest means.

In 1661 he was appointed chaplain to the priest Peder Worm at Kirke Helsinge and Drøsselbjerg, and in 1668 he was ordained a minister in his hometown of Slangerup, where his poem-writing began.

Some parts of the Danish rural population firmly held to his hymns during the Pietist and Rationalist period, contributing to their survival.

His hymns are born by a forceful and often Old Testamental wrath and renunciation of the world alternating with Christian meekness and confidence.

His worldly poems and patriotic songs are often long-winded and marked by outer effects but in short version he is unequalled, as in his both plain and worthy ode to naval hero Niels Juel.

Kingo's first wife, Sille Blackenborg, to whom he had dedicated the poem "Chrysillis, mit Hjeertes Guld", died the year after their wedding in 1670; she was the widow of the priest of Kirke-Helsinge.