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John Thomson (comedian)
John Thomson (born 1969, Salford) is an English comedian and actor, star of The Fast Show (Jazz Club Man) and Cold Feet's Pete Gifford, Perrier Award collaborator with Steve Coogan.
John Thune
John Thune (born 1961) is South Dakota's Republican U.S. Senator since 2005, former House member, and Senate Majority Leader since January 2025 after beating Daschle in 2004 and succeeding McConnell.
John Tileston Edsall
John Tileston Edsall (1902–2002) was an American protein scientist at Harvard who proved amino acids exist as zwitterions and co-authored the textbook Biophysical Chemistry with Jeffries Wyman.
John Tillotson
John Tillotson (1630–1694) was an English Anglican divine, perhaps the leading Latitudinarian preacher of his age, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death in 1694.
John Tilton Hack
John Tilton Hack (1913–1991) was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who proposed dynamic equilibrium in landscape evolution, the idea that slopes and streams are mutually adjusted.
John Tinniswood
John Alfred Tinniswood was an English supercentenarian and retired accountant, named the world's oldest living man in April 2024; he died at 112 years, 91 days.
John Tite
John Tite is an immunologist who served as founding chief executive of Bicycle Therapeutics, a Cambridge UK biotech spun out of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2009.
John Titor
John Titor: pseudonym of an anonymous poster who claimed on 2000-2001 forums (first as TimeTravel_0) to be a military time traveler from 2036 seeking an IBM 5100; predictions failed, widely treated as a hoax.
John Tobias
John Tobias (born 1969, Chicago) is an American game artist and designer who co-created Mortal Kombat with Ed Boon at Midway in 1992, created its characters and lore, and later founded Studio Gigante.
John Togo
John Togo, also known as John Ipoko, was the Nigerian militant leader of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force in Delta State; he accepted the 2009 amnesty, returned to fighting, and died in 2011 of wounds from a JTF airstrike.
John Toland
John Francis Toland is a Northern Irish mathematician in nonlinear analysis who proved Stokes' conjecture on waves of greatest height in 1978 and led the Isaac Newton Institute.
John Tonje
John Tonje (born 2001) is an American NBA guard, 53rd pick of the 2025 draft by Utah, a Wisconsin second-team All-American who later played for the Boston Celtics and signed a two-way deal with Portland.
John Tonkin (British Army officer)
John Eliot Tonkin (1920–1995), Royal Northumberland Fusiliers officer and SAS captain, service number 200156; commanded B Squadron 1st SAS in Operation Bulbasket 1944, later Operation Tabarin Antarctic base deputy commander.
John Torode
John Torode, Australian-born London chef and restaurateur, co-judged BBC MasterChef with Gregg Wallace 2005-2025 after Conran-group kitchens and Smiths of Smithfield; sacked by the BBC in July 2025 over an upheld racist-language allegation.
John Torrence Tate, Sr.
John Torrence Tate, Sr. (1889–1950) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Minnesota, known for electron-impact experiments and mass spectroscopy, who edited Physical Review from 1926 to 1950.
John Torrey
John Torrey (1796–1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician who taught chemistry at Princeton and coauthored the unfinished Flora of North America with Asa Gray.
John Tortorella
Jonathan "John" Tortorella is an American professional ice hockey coach who coached for 24 seasons, winning the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004.
John Tory
John Tory, Canadian lawyer, Rogers Media CEO, CFL commissioner, and Ontario PC leader (2004-2009), was mayor of Toronto 2014-2023 and resigned after acknowledging a relationship with a former staffer; an integrity report found two Code violations.
John Toshack
John Benjamin Toshack (born 1949, Cardiff) is a Welsh former striker and manager, Liverpool great (247 apps, 96 goals, three league titles), who managed Real Sociedad, twice Real Madrid, Deportivo and Wales.
John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (1925–1991), first Republican U.S. senator from Texas since Reconstruction (1961–1985), Armed Services Committee chairman, Tower Commission head, and the first incoming president's cabinet nominee rejected by the Senate, 47–53, in 1989.
John Travolta
John Travolta (born 1954) is an American actor known for Welcome Back Kotter, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, and Get Shorty; two-time Oscar nominee, Golden Globe winner, pilot, and 2026 directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach.
John Tromp
John Tromp (born 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist known for the binary lambda calculus and for determining the number of legal Go positions, about 2.08 × 10^170.
John Trowbridge (physicist)
John Trowbridge (1843–1923) was an American physicist at Harvard University who worked on electrical discharges and early X-ray research and founded the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.
John Trowsdale
John Trowsdale (born 1949) is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge, known for cloning HLA genes and mapping the human MHC.
John Trudell
Santee Dakota activist, poet, and actor (1946–2015); spokesman for the 1969–1971 Alcatraz occupation, national chairman of the American Indian Movement 1973–1979, and spoken-word artist with more than a dozen albums.
John Trumbull
John Trumbull (1756-1843), American painter of the Revolution, aide to Washington, creator of the Capitol Rotunda's four history paintings including Declaration of Independence, and founder of Yale's Trumbull Gallery, the first American college art museum.
John Tu
John Tu is a Chinese-born engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology with David Sun in 1987, sold 80% to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, and bought it back in 1999.
John Tucker Must Die
John Tucker Must Die is a 2006 teen romantic comedy directed by Betty Thomas, starring Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, and Sophia Bush; three ex-girlfriends plot revenge on a serial-cheating basketball star. It grossed $68.8 million worldwide on an $18 million budget.
John Tukey
John Tukey (1915–2000) was an American statistician at Princeton and Bell Labs known for the fast Fourier transform, exploratory data analysis, and coining "bit" and "software".
John Tulloch
John Tulloch (1823–1886) was a Church of Scotland minister and the leading liberal theologian of his day, principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, from 1854 and Moderator of the General Assembly in 1878.