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), , 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 Lowell Thorndike (1926–2020), an American purveyor of music and non-profit organizations, president of the Harvard Club of Boston 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 Thorndike, Massachusetts, community in the city of Palmer

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