USS Woodrow R. Thompson (DE-451)

The first USS Woodrow R. Thompson (DE-451) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.

Woodrow R. Thompson was scheduled to be built at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Newark, New Jersey, but her construction was cancelled on 6 June 1944.

The name Woodrow R. Thompson was reassigned to destroyer USS Woodrow R. Thompson (DD-721).