- Barbara Thompson was born on July 27, 1944 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She was a composer, known for A Touch of Frost (1992), C.A.T.S. Eyes (1985) and Screen One (1985). She was married to Jon Hiseman. She died on July 9, 2022 in the UK.
- SpouseJon Hiseman(1967 - June 12, 2018) (his death, 2 children)
- She was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to jazz music in the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
- Thompson had studied saxophone and classical composition at the Royal College Of Music, but through her love of the music of John Coltrane and Duke Ellington, she concentrated on jazz.
- Thompson worked closely with Andrew Lloyd Webber on musicals such as Cats and Starlight Express, his Requiem, and Lloyd Webber's 1978 classical-fusion album Variations.
- After she was hospitalised with atrial fibrillation, her attendance in an accident and emergency department was featured in an episode of the Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall television documentary 24 Hours in A&E in October 2020.
- She was an English jazz saxophonist.
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