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Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar (Malin Therèse Alshammar, "Tessan"), Swedish sprint swimmer born 1977 in Solna; only female swimmer at six Olympics, 3 Olympic medals, 71 international medals, 50 fly short-course world record 24.38.
Therese Brisson
Therese Brisson (Thérèse Anne Brisson), born 1966, Canadian ice hockey defenseman; Olympic silver 1998 and gold 2002, six world titles, later Alpine Canada President & CEO 2020–2026.
Thérèse Coffey
Thérèse Coffey, Baroness Coffey (born 1971), British Conservative politician; first female UK Deputy Prime Minister under Liz Truss in 2022, former Work and Pensions, Health, and Environment Secretary, MP for Suffolk Coastal 2010–2024, life peer since 2025.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a 1927 French novel by François Mauriac in which a provincial woman tries to poison her husband and is freed through his false testimony.
Therese Johaug
Therese Johaug (born 1988), Norwegian cross-country skier from Dalsbygda, IL Nansen; 4 Olympic golds, 14 world titles, 89 World Cup wins, four Tour de Ski titles; 18-month clostebol ban; retired 2025.
Therese M. Poland
Therese M. Poland is a research entomologist who leads invasive forest insect research at the USDA Forest Service in East Lansing, Michigan, and received a 2002 PECASE award.
Thérèse of Lisieux
Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as Saint Therese of Lisieux, was a French Carmelite nun who died in 1897 at 24 and wrote Story of a Soul.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola's 1867 novel of adultery and murder in Paris, founding work of French Naturalism; its 1868 preface states the temperament doctrine; adapted to stage (1873), film, and opera.
Therese Terlaje
Therese M. Terlaje is an American politician and attorney, Speaker of the 37th Guam Legislature and the Democratic nominee for Governor of Guam in the 2026 election.
Thérèse Tréfouël
Thérèse Tréfouël, born Thérèse Boyer, was a French chemist at the Institut Pasteur who in 1935 showed that sulfanilamide, not the dye prontosil, was the active antibacterial agent.
Theresian reforms
The Theresian reforms were the program of state modernization carried out in the Habsburg Monarchy under Empress Maria Theresa between 1748 and 1780, prompted by the loss of Silesia to Prussia.
Theresian Swabian colonization
The Theresian Swabian colonization (German: Theresianische Ansiedlung) was the second of three Habsburg settlement waves that settled German-speaking farmers in the Banat of Temesvár under Empress Maria Theresa, peaking around 1763 to 1772.
Theresianum
The Theresianum is a school in Vienna, founded in 1746 by Empress Maria Theresia to train Habsburg civil servants, now running a kindergarten and public Gymnasium.
Theresienstadt Ghetto
Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto: Nazi camp-ghetto in occupied Czechoslovakia, November 1941 to May 1945; transit and old-age ghetto for about 140,000 Jews, propaganda site of the 1944 film and Red Cross visit.
Therevidae
Therevidae, the stiletto flies, is a family of asiloid brachyceran Diptera with over 1,170 species in about 128 genera, sister to Scenopinidae, with predatory sand-burrowing larvae and subfamilies Phycinae, Xestomyzinae, Agapophytinae, and Therevinae.
Theri (தெறி) (film)
Theri (தெறி) is a 2016 Tamil action thriller directed by Atlee, starring Vijay, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and Amy Jackson; the second highest-grossing Tamil film of 2016, remade as Baby John and re-released in 2026.
Theria
Theria is the mammalian clade uniting Metatheria (marsupials) and Eutheria (placentals), diverging about 135–140 million years ago; viviparous, with placenta and lactation, distinct from egg-laying monotremes.
Therian subculture
Therian subculture: an online community of people identifying as non-human animals (therianthropy, theriotypes), founded on 1990s Usenet, distinct from furries and otherkin, visible on TikTok since the mid-2020s.
Therianthropy
Therianthropy, also called therian identity: people who identify involuntarily as partly or wholly non-human animal, an online subculture since the 1990s Usenet era; distinct from furries, otherkin, and clinical therianthropy.
Therica Wilson-Read
Therica Wilson-Read (born 1993, Camden, London) is a British actress and RADA-trained writer best known as Sabrina Glevissig in Netflix's The Witcher (2019–2025, 15 episodes), with lead and supporting film roles in Coyote, Stopmotion, and Back to Black.
Theridiidae
Theridiidae, the cobweb or comb-footed spiders (family Sundevall, 1833), is a large araneoid spider family of over 2,600 species including Latrodectus widows, Steatoda, and Parasteatoda, building three-dimensional gumfoot cobwebs derived from orb webs.
Theridion grallator
Theridion grallator, the Hawaiian happy-face spider, is a small theridiid spider endemic to four Hawaiian Islands, with over 20 abdominal color morphs, single-locus Mendelian inheritance, and balancing selection maintaining its polymorphism.
Theridomys
Theridomys (Jourdan 1837) is an extinct theridomyid rodent genus from the late Eocene to late Oligocene of Europe, known from teeth showing size increase and hypsodonty; its last species, T. octogesensis, is from the Spanish Ebro basin.
Theriogenology
Theriogenology is the branch of veterinary medicine dealing with animal reproduction in all species, spanning obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, and technologies like artificial insemination and embryo transfer.
Therion (band)
Therion, also styled Megatherion and originally Blitzkrieg, is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987; it began as death metal, broke through with Theli (1996), recorded Vovin with a real orchestra in 1998, and released the Leviathan trilogy in 2021–2023.
Therion (software)
Therion is an open-source GNU GPL cave-survey processing and cartography package by Martin Budaj and Stacho Mudrák, using .th/.th2 text files, Survex least-squares loop closure, and MetaPost/pdfTeX compilation to produce PDF/SVG cave atlases, GIS exports, and 3D models.
Therizinosaurus
Therizinosaurus cheloniformis, 'scythe lizard', a large herbivorous theropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Mongolia, 70 million years ago, with hand claws about 50 cm long, the longest known of any land animal, named by Maleev in 1954.
Therm
A therm (thm) is a non-SI unit of heat energy equal to 100,000 Btu, used chiefly for natural gas billing in the United States and the European Union.
Thermadyne
Thermadyne, later renamed Victor Technologies, was a Chesterfield, Missouri manufacturer of gas and arc cutting and welding products, taken private in 2010 and sold to Colfax in 2014.
Thermae
Thermae were the large public bath complexes of ancient Rome, distinct from smaller balnea, with caldarium, tepidarium, and frigidarium rooms heated by hypocausts and fed by aqueducts; Rome's 4th-century catalogues list 856 bath-houses.