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Thomas C. Kaufman

Thomas C. Kaufman is an American developmental geneticist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for defining the Antennapedia gene complex of the fruit fly Drosophila and helping found FlyBase.

Thomas C. Merigan

Thomas C. Merigan, born 1934, is an American physician-scientist and virologist, emeritus professor at Stanford known for introducing interferon therapy and developing antiviral drugs against HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B.

Thomas C. Quinn

Thomas C. Quinn is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who was among the first to identify the AIDS epidemic and HIV in Africa.

Thomas C. Redman

Thomas C. Redman, "the Data Doc," American statistician and data quality pioneer; founded AT&T Bell Labs' Data Quality Lab (1987), leads Data Quality Solutions, defined data quality as "fit for use," author of Data Driven and People and Data.

Thomas C. Schelling

Thomas C. Schelling was an American economist who won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize for game-theory analysis of conflict and cooperation, known for The Strategy of Conflict.

Thomas C. Spencer

Thomas C. Spencer, born 1946, is an American mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study known for rigorous work on phase transitions and Anderson localization.

Thomas C. Südhof

Thomas C. Südhof is a German-born American biochemist at Stanford who identified the calcium sensor for neurotransmitter release and shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas C. Wright

Thomas C. Wright, Jr. is an American gynecological pathologist and Columbia professor emeritus whose trials of HPV testing and vinegar-based screening in South Africa shaped WHO cervical-cancer guidelines.

Thomas Campbell

Thomas (Tom) Campbell, 1898–1971, American middle-distance runner; Yale 880-yard runner, 1918 AAU champion, competed in the 800 m at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; later a Columbia-trained attorney.

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion (1567–1620) was an English poet, composer, and physician who wrote the words and music of his songs and produced influential treatises on poetry and music.

Thomas Capano

Thomas J. Capano, prominent Delaware lawyer and former gubernatorial counsel, convicted in 1999 of murdering his former lover Anne Marie Fahey, Governor Carper's scheduling secretary; case built without a body; death sentence later commuted to life; died in prison 2011.

Thomas Carden

Thomas M. Carden Jr. is a U.S. Army National Guard general, first four-star Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2026), formerly Adjutant General of Georgia and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command.

Thomas Carell

Thomas Carell (born 1966 in Herford, Germany) is a German organic chemist and chemical biologist at LMU Munich, known for DNA repair, epigenetic base modifications, and prebiotically plausible RNA synthesis.

Thomas Carew

Thomas J. Carew, born in 1944, is an American neuroscientist at New York University known for showing that memory in the sea slug Aplysia has distinct short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term phases.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist and historian, author of Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution, and On Heroes; coined 'dismal science' and championed the Great Man theory of history.

Thomas Cartwright

Thomas Cartwright (1534/5–1603) was an English theologian and Puritan leader, deprived of his Cambridge professorship in 1570, who advocated replacing bishops with presbyterian church government.

Thomas Cavalier‐Smith

Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942–2021) was a British biologist who proposed new branches of the tree of life, defined the kingdom Chromista in 1981, and held the evolutionary biology chair at Oxford.

Thomas Cazenave

Thomas Cazenave is a French Renaissance politician elected Mayor of Bordeaux in March 2026, defeating incumbent Pierre Hurmic, after serving as Minister charged with Public Accounts from 2023 to 2024.

Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) was an English poet from Bristol who wrote mock-medieval verse attributed to the fictional priest Thomas Rowley and died in London at 17.

Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose London workshop furnished great Georgian houses like Harewood, and whose 1754 pattern book named an era.

Thomas Chirault

Thomas Chirault (born 1997, Corbie, France) is a French recurve archer, Paris 2024 Olympic men's team silver medalist, French record holder at 692/720 and 598/600 indoor, world number eight, and Taranto 2026 Mediterranean Games double champion.

Thomas Christian Kavanagh

Thomas Christian Kavanagh (1912–1978) was an American civil engineer who led the structural design of the Arecibo radio telescope and was a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Thomas Christiansen

Thomas Christiansen Tarín, Danish-born Spanish football manager and former striker; Barcelona B product, 2 Spain caps, 2002-03 joint Bundesliga top scorer with Bochum; Panama head coach since 2020, 2023 Gold Cup final, 2026 World Cup, renewed to 2030.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928) was an American geologist who proposed the planetesimal hypothesis, demonstrated multiple Pleistocene glaciations, and set out the method of multiple working hypotheses.

Thomas Clasen

Thomas F. Clasen is an environmental epidemiologist and Rose Salamone Gangarosa Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University, known for trials of water treatment and the HAPIN cookstove study.

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), Scottish-born British admiral and MP, expelled in the 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, who commanded the Chilean, Brazilian, and Greek navies in their wars of liberation and was later restored as a full admiral.

Thomas Codrington

Thomas Codrington (died 1691?) was an English Catholic priest who served as chaplain to James II and tried to introduce a community of secular priests into England.

Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole (1801–1848), English-born American landscape painter based in Catskill, New York; founder of the Hudson River School. Known for The Course of Empire, The Oxbow, and The Voyage of Life.

Thomas Connelly (dentist)

Thomas Patrick Connelly, DDS, the "Father of Diamond Dentistry" per Rolling Stone, is a Detroit-born cosmetic dentist in Beverly Hills and NYC known for Post Malone's $1.6M diamond fangs, Lil Yachty's 16-carat teeth, Ye's $850K titanium grillz, and denied 2024 nitrous oxide allegations.

Thomas Cook

Thomas Cook was a British travel company founded in 1841 by Thomas Cook, a Leicester cabinet-maker, which pioneered the inclusive tour and collapsed in 2019.