Sam Tompkins (born 18 April, 1997) is a singer-wong writer from Brighton, England.^[6]

Tompkins started his career through busking on the streets of ,Brighton England. When he gained more fame, he started performing in concerts and later sold out shows touring around the UK.

He has released music on Spotify since 2017[3] and exists on other platforms as well (i.e. Apple Music, SoundCloud).

Tompkins is actively releasing music on his YouTube acIn 2008 he made his Wigan début in a Challenge Cup match against Whitehaven, becoming the first rugby league player to score five tries in a first-grade début.^[4]

2009 would prove to be Tomkins' breakthrough year.

He made his league début against Harlequins RL, and made 27 appearances during the season, scoring 15 tries.

He established himself as Wigan's first choice stand-off, and was named in the Super League Dream Team, as well as receiving the club's own Player of the Year and the Super League's Young Player of the Year awards. In 2010, Tomkins switched from stand-off to fullback under Wigan's new head coach Michael Maguire, also appearing occasionally at scrum-half.^[3] That season, Wigan won its first league title since 1998; it was Tomkins' first honour as a player. Appearing in every game of Wigan's 2010 season, he retained his place in the Dream Team, and also received the Rugby League International Federation's Rookie of the Year award.^[7]

Tomkins was born on 23 March 1989 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[7] Following the birth of Sam's older brother Joel in Warrington, the family had moved to Milton Keynes due to his father's work.^[6]

In the early 1990s, his family moved to Chorley, where his younger brother Logan was born.^[8] Tomkins' first experience of rugby league came when he was seven years old, after his father introduced both Sam and Joel to the Chorley Panthers ARLFC.^[2]

By the time Tomkins was nine, both he and his older brother had moved from the Chorley Panthers and were becoming more involved with the amateur Wigan St. Patrick's club, a feeder team for the professional Wigan club.^[5]