Myron Bennett "Pinky" Thompson (February 29, 1924 – December 25, 2001) was an American Hawaiian social worker, community leader and cultural leader among the Native Hawaiians. He is best known for his work as a member of the Board of Trustees of Bishop Estate (now known as Kamehameha Schools).
He married Laura Kalaukapu Low Lucas on February 21, 1949 in Augusta, Maine, she was the daughter of pioneering Hawaiian social worker Clorinda Low Lucas. Thompson is the father of master wayfinder Nainoa Thompson, who made several trans-Polynesian voyages as the navigator of the canoes Hokulea and Hawaiiloa. The younger Thompson leads the Polynesian Voyaging Society and sits on the Board of Trustees of Kamehameha Schools.
Executive director of the Queen Liliʻuokalani Children's Center (1962–1967)
State administrator under Gov. John A. Burns (1967–1970)
Executive director of the Hawaiʻi State Department of Social Services & Housing (1970–1974)
Trustee of Bishop Estate (1974–1994). In this capacity he developed early childhood programs, the cancellation of which in the late 1990s led to a controversy that sparked major changes in the trust.
