Geoff Thompson (born 26 January 1960) is a BAFTA-winning writer, film-maker, spiritual teacher, and martial artist. He has written prolifically in a wide range of genres, including books on spirituality, self-help, self defence, and martial arts, and scripts for film and stage.

Geoff Thompson was born on 26 January 1960 in Coventry, United Kingdom^{[citation needed]}.

Thompson became a martial artist specialising in 'reality' martial arts and self defence, based on his experience at the night club door, and co-founded the British Combat Association with Peter Consterdine. Thompson became a self defence instructor and promoted his concept of "The Fence". He taught seminars in the US for Chuck Norris.

Thompson began writing for film with his script for the short film Bouncer in 2003, which went on to star Ray Winstone and was nominated for a BAFTA award. He wrote the script for a short film Brown Paper Bag, based on his own brother's problems with alcoholism that eventually led to his death in 1999, and this won Thompson a BAFTA award in 2004 for Best Short Film.

Geoff went on to write the film script for the feature film Clubbed (2008), based on his autobiography Watch My Back, starring Colin Salmon.

He wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Pyramid Texts (2015), starring James Cosmo. Thompson made his directorial debut in 2015 with the short film The 20 Minute Film Pitch.

His work Romans 12:20, directed by the Shammasian Brothers and starring Craig Conway, (2008), has been adapted into a feature film, Romans (2017), starring Orlando Bloom.

Thompson has written for stage, including the play Fragile which is semi-autobiographical and showed in Coventry.