Aaron Thompson (1681 or 1682 – 27 July 1751) was an English clergyman from a Cumberland family who served as vicar of Broad Chalke in Wiltshire from 1724 until his death. He is best known for his only book, The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth. With a Large Preface concerning the Authority of the History (1718). This was the first, and for the better part of 200 years only, translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.