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Tamara Bykova

Tamara Vladimirovna Bykova (Тамара Владимировна Быкова), born 1958 in Azov, Soviet high jumper, 1983 world champion, three-time world record setter (2.03-2.05 m, 1983-84), 1988 Olympic bronze medallist, rival of Stefka Kostadinova.

Tamara Costache

Tamara Costache, Romanian swimmer born 1970 in Ploiești, won the first official women's 50 m freestyle world title at Madrid 1986 in a world record 25.28, later European and 1987 European champion, sixth at Seoul 1988.

Tamara Csipes

Tamara Csipes (born 1989, Budapest) is a Hungarian canoe sprint kayaker, daughter of Olympic champion Ferenc Csipes; two-time Olympic K4 500m champion (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), nine-time world and eleven-time European champion.

Tamara Dauniene

Tamāra Dauniene (Тамара Викторовна Даунене, née Kaļagina), born 1951 in Yoshkar-Ola, is a Soviet basketball player who won gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, plus EuroBasket 1974 and 1976 and three Universiade titles, playing for Dinamo Rīga.

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka (Tamara Łempicka), born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska, was a Polish-born Art Deco painter known as the "Baroness with a Brush", celebrated for sleek, stylized portraits and nudes of 1920s Paris high society.

Tamara Dey

Tamara Dey is a Belgian-born, Johannesburg-based South African singer whose kwaito and house career began in 2000 with Brothers of Peace, followed by a decade with Flash Republic.

Tamara Ecclestone

Tamara Jane Ecclestone, British model, socialite, and TV personality born 1984 in Milan, eldest daughter of F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone and model Slavica Radić; founder of SHOW Beauty and Fifi & Friends, sister of Petra.

Tamara Echegoyen

Támara Echegoyen (Xiquita), Spanish sailor born 1984 in Ourense; Olympic gold in Elliott 6m at London 2012 with Toro and Pumariega; four Games 2012-2024; 49erFX world champion 2016 and 2020; Paris 2024 flagbearer.

Tamara Galloway

Tamara Galloway is an ecotoxicologist and Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter since 2007, whose research helped establish microplastics as a field of environmental science.

Tamara Guseva

Tamara Guseva (Гусева Тамара Николаевна, born 1926) is a Soviet pianist, 9th prize at the 1949 Chopin Competition, student of Neuhaus and Oborin; the name also denotes a 1926–1994 Soviet swimming champion.

Tamara Johnson-George

Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George (born 1974, New York City) is an American singer, author, and reality TV personality, one-third of R&B trio SWV (Sisters With Voices), known for It's About Time, Survivor: Tocantins, and marriage to Eddie George.

Tamara Kalinic (Тамара Калинић)

Tamara Kalinić (Тамара Калинић), Serbian-born fashion and lifestyle creator born in Sarajevo in 1989; pharmacy graduate turned blogger (Glam & Glitter, 2012), Instagram and YouTube personality, Noa brand founder, Times top-100 influencer (2019).

Tamara Lazakovich

Tamara Vasilyevna Lazakovich (Тамара Васильевна Лазакович), Soviet artistic gymnast from Vitebsk; 1972 Munich Olympic team gold, beam silver, all-around and floor bronze; 1970 world team champion; 1971 European all-around champion; died 1992.

Tamara Lyukhina Zamotaylova

Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotaylova (Тамара Алексеевна Люхина-Замотайлова), born 11 May 1939, Soviet artistic gymnast; two Olympic team golds (1960, 1964) and two 1960 bronzes; later judge, coach, Voronezh federation chair.

Tamara Manina

Tamara Manina (Тамара Ивановна Manina) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast, a two-time Olympic champion from 1956 and 1964, and a five-time world champion and later scientist.

Tamara Milashkina

Tamara Andreyevna Milashkina (Russian: Тамара Андреевна Милашкина, 1934–2024) was a Soviet soprano and Bolshoi Theatre soloist from 1958 to 1989, named People's Artist of the USSR in 1973.

Tamara Orlova

Tamara Orlova names several unrelated people: a German youth footballer at SGS Essen U 17, a Soviet 800 m runner born 1936, and a London company director at FLO Health.

Tamara Press

Tamara Natanovna Press (Тамара Натановна Пресс), Soviet shot putter and discus thrower (1937–2021), won three Olympic golds and one silver and set 11 world records before retiring in 1966 amid gender-verification controversy.

Tamara Rylova

Tamara Rylova (Тамара Николаевна Рылова, 1931-2021), Soviet speed skater, 1959 World All-Around champion, 1960 Olympic 1,000 m bronze medalist, and four-time world record holder at Medeu.

Tamara Samsonova (Тамара Митрофановна Самсонова)

Tamara Samsonova, also known as Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova, is a Russian pensioner from Saint Petersburg arrested in July 2015 for killing and dismembering a 79-year-old woman she had cared for.

Tamara Sorokina

Tamara Sorokina (Тамара Александровна Сорокина, born 1950) is a Soviet middle-distance runner, 1981 World Cup 1500 m champion in Rome, European Cup winner, and European indoor bronze medallist with 800 m best 1:57.55.

Tamara Taylor

Tamara Taylor (born 1970, Toronto) is a Canadian actress known as Dr. Camille Saroyan on Bones (2006–2017, 223 episodes) and as Angela Wheatley in Law & Order: Organized Crime; also Serenity, October Faction, Senseless.

Tamara Tikhonova

Tamara Tikhonova (Тамара Ивановна Тихонова), born 1964, Soviet cross-country skier; double 1988 Calgary Olympic champion (20 km freestyle, 4x5 km relay) with 5 km silver and five World Championship medals.

Tamara Toumanova (Тамара Туманова)

Tamara Toumanova (Тамара Туманова), born Tamara Tumanishvili, was a Russian-born ballerina and film actress who starred with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as one of the three 'baby ballerinas'.

Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie, born 1959 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, is an American actress and Tony-winning producer known as Melinda Warner on Law & Order: SVU, Jessica Griffin on As the World Turns, and Anita Dupree on Beyond the Gates.

Tamara Tyshkevich

Tamara Tyshkevich (Тамара Андреевна Тышкевич, 1931–1997), Soviet shot putter, 1956 Olympic champion with 16.59 m Olympic record, beating Galina Zybina; two Soviet titles, 1958 European silver.

Tamara Voitenko

Tamara Voitenko, Soviet athlete born 1945, ran on the first ratified women's 4x400m relay world record team (3:47.4, Moscow, 1969) and ranked 2:06.0 at 800 m; a same-named URS pilot held FAI F5 altitude records.

Tamarack Global

Tamarack Global is an early-stage deep-tech venture capital firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded by John McCormick with Jamie Lee, investing in defense tech, energy, AI, manufacturing, and space.

Tamaraw

Tamaraw, or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis), is a small, critically endangered wild buffalo endemic to Mindoro, Philippines. Described in 1888, it is the country's largest land mammal.

Tamari lattice

The Tamari lattice is a partially ordered set whose elements are binary bracketings of a fixed number of symbols, ordered by applying the associativity rule; Dov Tamari introduced it in his 1951 thesis.