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Theo of Golden

Theo of Golden, debut 2023 novel by Allen Levi, self-published then reissued by Atria in 2025; elderly Portuguese stranger Theo buys 92 coffeehouse portraits of Golden, Georgia residents and gifts each to its subject for their story; #1 NYT bestseller, over one million US copies, Tom Hanks film in talks.

Theo Paphitis

Theo Paphitis (Theodoros Paphitis) is a British-Cypriot retail entrepreneur who revived distressed chains like Ryman and became known as an investor on BBC Two's Dragons' Den from 2005.

Théo Pourchaire

Théo Pourchaire (born 2003, Grasse) is a French racing driver, 2023 FIA Formula 2 champion with ART Grand Prix, youngest ever F2 and F3 race winner, later in Super Formula, IndyCar, Peugeot WEC, and Opel Formula E.

Theo Rose

Theo Rose, stage name of Theodora Maria Diaconu (born 1997, Ploiești), Romanian singer, presenter, and actress; Vocea României coach since 2022, lead in Clanul, partner of Anghel Damian.

Theo Rossi

Theo Rossi, American actor and producer born 1975 in Staten Island, New York; known as Juice Ortiz in Sons of Anarchy, Shades in Luke Cage, Dr. Julian Rush in The Penguin, and Youcef in Emily the Criminal.

Theo van Gogh (art dealer)

Theo van Gogh (Theodorus van Gogh, 1857-1891), Dutch art dealer, younger brother of painter Vincent; Goupil & Cie/Boussod, Valadon & Cie Paris branch manager, Vincent's financial supporter, co-collector; distinct from his namesake great-grandnephew.

Theo van Gogh (film director)

Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) was a Dutch film director, columnist, and provocateur, maker of Luger, Blind Date, and Interview, murdered in Amsterdam in 2004 after the film Submission with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Theo Von

Theo Von (Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III, born 1980) is an American comedian from Covington, Louisiana, host of the podcast This Past Weekend since 2016, a former MTV Road Rules contestant, and interviewer of Donald Trump in 2024.

Theo Vos

Theo Vos is a Dutch-trained physician, epidemiologist, and health economist who is Professor Emeritus at IHME in Seattle and led the Global Burden of Disease study's non-fatal burden estimates.

Theo Walcott

Theo Walcott (born 1989), English winger/forward for Southampton, Arsenal (397 apps, 108 goals) and Everton; youngest-ever England debutant at 17, 47 caps, 8 goals; retired August 2023 aged 34.

Theo Wease Jr.

Theo Wease Jr., NFL wide receiver for the Los Angeles Chargers (formerly Miami Dolphins), former five-star recruit at Oklahoma and Missouri; 173 college catches, 2,610 yards, 20 TDs; undrafted in 2025.

Theo Willems

Theo Willems (Theodorus Willems, 1891-1960), Dutch archer from Uden, club De Unie Veghel; won team target archery gold (28 m) for the Netherlands at Antwerp 1920, scoring 374 of 540.

Theobald

Theobald, also known as Theobald of Bec, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1138 to 1161, a Norman abbot of Bec who defied King Stephen and helped broker Henry II's accession.

Theobald Billican

Theobald Billican, born Diepold Gerlach, was a German Reformation theologian who led the Reformation in Nördlingen from 1522 to 1535 and later became a law professor at Marburg.

Theobald Mathew

Theobald Mathew, baptized Tobias Mathew, was an Irish Capuchin friar and priest, the "Apostle of Temperance", who led a mass total-abstinence crusade in Ireland from 1838.

Theobald Smith

Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American bacteriologist and comparative pathologist; proved tick-borne Texas cattle fever, distinguished bovine and human tubercle bacilli, pioneered killed vaccines and anaphylaxis research.

Theobald Thamer

Theobald Thamer, also spelled Dammer, was a German theologian who trained at Wittenberg, taught Lutheran theology at Marburg, then converted to Catholicism, dying in 1569 as a professor at Freiburg.

Theobalda family

Theobalda family, asteroid family around (778) Theobalda in the outer main belt near 3.175 au; 128 members, 6.9 ± 2.3 Myr old, from a cratering impact on a ~78 km parent body; linked to main-belt comets P/2016 J1 and 427P.

Theobroma

Theobroma is a Neotropical genus of about 20-23 Malvaceae trees, named by Linnaeus in 1753 ('food of the gods'); type species T. cacao, source of chocolate, plus cupuaçu and pataxte.

Theobroma cacao

Theobroma cacao, the cacao or cocoa tree, is a Malvaceae evergreen whose seeds give chocolate. Upper Amazon origin, use from ~5,300 years ago, 71% of output from Africa, record 2023/24 prices.

Theobroma grandiflorum

Theobroma grandiflorum, cupuaçu or cupuassu, is an Amazonian Malvaceae fruit tree related to cacao, native from S. Venezuela to N. Bolivia, domesticated from cupuí 5000-8000 years ago, grown for acidic-sweet pulp used in juice and ice cream.

Theobromine

Theobromine (3,7-dimethylxanthine, C7H8N4O2) is a cacao-derived methylxanthine alkaloid, a mild human vasodilator and diuretic, the main toxin in chocolate poisoning in dogs, and an archaeological marker for ancient cacao use.

Theobromine poisoning

Theobromine poisoning (chocolate toxicosis) is methylxanthine poisoning of animals, mainly dogs, from eating chocolate; dogs clear theobromine slowly (17.5-hour half-life), with vomiting, tremors, seizures, and arrhythmias at 20–60 mg/kg doses.

Theocharis Theocharis

Theocharis Theocharis, born 1970 in Athens, is a Greek New Democracy politician serving as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2025, after serving as Minister of Tourism from 2019 to 2021.

Theocracy

Theocracy, from Greek theokratia, is government in which divine authority or religious leaders hold supreme civil power. Coined by Josephus; historical examples include the caliphates, Papal States, Geneva, and Iran since 1979.

Theocritean bucolic

Theocritean bucolic is the pastoral poetry of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus of Syracuse, active in the early 3rd century BCE, written in Doric hexameters about singing herdsmen.

Theocritus

Theocritus (Θεόκριτος) was a Hellenistic Greek poet from Syracuse, active in the early 3rd century BCE, whose pastoral Idylls, reworked by Virgil, founded the European pastoral tradition.

TheOdd1sOut

TheOdd1sOut is the YouTube channel of American animator James Rallison (born 1996), who moved from Tumblr webcomics (2012) to storytime animation videos (2014), reaching 20.8 million subscribers, the Netflix series Oddballs, and bestselling books.

Théoden

Théoden (Théoden Ednew, Rohirric Tûrac) is the seventeenth King of Rohan in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: healed by Gandalf from Saruman's influence, victorious at the Hornburg, fallen at the Pelennor Fields, succeeded by Éomer.

Theodicy

A theodicy (plural theodicies) explains how God's justice and goodness can be upheld despite evil, a term Leibniz coined from Greek for God and justice in 1710.