Thorndike
# Thorndike

Thorndike or Thorndyke may refer to:

## People

* Andrew Thorndike (1909–1979), a German film director
* Ashley Horace Thorndike (1871–1933), an American educator
* Augustus Thorndike (1896–1986), an American physician
* Edward Thorndike (1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist
* Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672), the second wife of John Proctor, daughter of John Thorndike
* Frances Cope (1902–1982), née Elizabeth Frances Thorndike, an American mathematician, daughter of Edward Thorndike
* Guillermo Thorndike (1940–2009), a Peruvian journalist and writer
* Helen Louise Thorndyke, pseudonym for the multiple authors of the Honey Bunch book series
* Herbert Thorndike (1598–1672), an English academic and clergyman
* Israel Thorndike (1755–1832), an American sailor, merchant, and politician
* John Thorndike (settler) (1611/12–1668), one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, brother of Herbert Thorndike
* John Thorndike, (b. 1942), an American writer
* Joseph J. Thorndike (1913–2005), an American editor and writer
* Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an American historian, brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike
* Robert L. Thorndike (1910–1990), an American psychologist, son of Edward Thorndike
* Robert M. Thorndike (born 1943), an American psychologist, son of Robert L. Thorndike
* Russell Thorndike (1885–1972), a British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike
* Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), a British actress
* W. L. Thorndyke, perpetrator of the Maggie Murphy hoax

## Fictional characters

* Dr. Thorndyke, a fictional detective in novels by R. Austin Freeman
* Chris Thorndyke, a human boy in the Sonic X anime television series
* Key Thorndyke, fictional newspaper magnate in the 1948 film State of the Union (film)
* Peter Thorndyke, villain in the 1968 film The Love Bug
* Dr. Richard Thorndyke, main character in the 1977 film High Anxiety

## Places

* Thorndike, Maine, a town in the United States

## Other

* Kennedy–Thorndike experiment
* Thorndyke (TV series), a 1964 BBC television series
