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Thomas Gravesen

Thomas Gravesen, Danish midfielder born 1976 in Vejle; played for Vejle BK, Hamburger SV, Everton, Real Madrid (49 games, 2005–06), and Celtic; 66 Denmark caps, 5 goals; retired 2009.

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and Cambridge professor of modern history; author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), declined the 1757 laureateship, published little, second only to Pope among eighteenth-century English poets.

Thomas Gregor

Thomas Gregor is a German biophysicist, professor of physics at Princeton University and head of the Physics of Biological Function unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Thomas Greiner

Thomas Greiner (born 1963, Dresden) is an East German rower, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the coxless fours, four-time world champion, later a FISA international referee and Thomas Keller Medal winner.

Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset

Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451–1501), stepson of Edward IV, Earl of Huntingdon, then Marquess of Dorset from 1475; fought at Tewkesbury, exiled under Richard III, later served Henry VII.

Thomas Greytak

Thomas John Greytak is an American experimental physicist, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for the 1998 achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in atomic hydrogen and for evaporative cooling.

Thomas Gridley

Thomas Gridley is an American developmental geneticist and Tufts professor based at MaineHealth Institute for Research, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway and Snail genes.

Thomas Guthrie

Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) was a Free Church of Scotland minister and celebrated pulpit orator whose 1847 Plea for Ragged Schools established schools for destitute children in Edinburgh.

Thomas H Lee Equity

Thomas H. Lee Equity is the flagship buyout fund series of THL, a Boston private equity firm founded by Thomas H. Lee in 1974, distinct from Lee Equity Partners.

Thomas H. Eickbush

Thomas H. Eickbush is an American molecular biologist and University of Rochester professor known for his work on the R2 retrotransposon of the silkmoth and for establishing target-primed reverse transcription.

Thomas H. Gallagher

Thomas H. Gallagher is an American general internist and patient-safety researcher at the University of Washington, known for research on disclosing medical errors and Communication-and-Resolution Programs.

Thomas H. Handy

Thomas H. Handy was a 19th-century New Orleans wine and liquor merchant who ran the Sazerac House, origin of the Sazerac Company, and is credited with the Sazerac cocktail.

Thomas H. Hostetter

Thomas H. Hostetter is an American nephrologist at the University of North Carolina, known for his 1982 review linking dietary protein to kidney disease progression.

Thomas H. Ince

Thomas H. Ince (Thomas Harper Ince, 1882 or 1880–1924) was an American silent-film producer and director, builder of Inceville and originator of the Hollywood producer system with continuity scripts; died aboard Hearst's yacht.

Thomas H. Jordan

Thomas H. Jordan, born 1948, is an American geophysicist at the University of Southern California who directed the Southern California Earthquake Center from 2002 to 2017.

Thomas H. Jukes

Thomas H. Jukes (1906–1999) was an English-born biochemist and molecular evolutionist who worked at Lederle Laboratories and UC Berkeley, coauthored the 1969 "Non-Darwinian Evolution" paper, and helped develop methotrexate.

Thomas H. Lee (financier)

Thomas H. Lee (1944–2023) was an American private equity investor who founded Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston in 1974 and later Lee Equity Partners.

Thomas H. Marwick

Thomas H. Marwick is an Australian cardiologist known for stress echocardiography and myocardial strain imaging, and director of the Baker Institute from 2016 to 2024.

Thomas H. McInnerney

Thomas H. McInnerney (1867–1952) was an American businessman from Dubuque, Iowa, who co-founded National Dairy Products Corporation with Edward E. Rieck in 1923, the predecessor of Kraft, Inc., and led it as president until 1941.

Thomas H. Milhorat

Thomas H. Milhorat (1936–2025) was an American neurosurgeon who overturned the choroid plexus model of cerebrospinal fluid production and founded the Chiari Institute in 2001.

Thomas H. Morgan

Thomas H. Morgan, or Thomas Hunt Morgan, was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through fruit fly experiments, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas H. Pigford

Thomas H. Pigford was an American nuclear engineer and founding chair of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, coauthor of the seminal textbook Nuclear Chemical Engineering.

Thomas H. Rice

Thomas H. Rice is an American health economist, a distinguished research professor at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, and a National Academy of Medicine member elected in 2006.

Thomas H. Vonder Haar

Thomas H. Vonder Haar, an American satellite meteorologist, analyzed the first satellite measurements of Earth's radiation budget in the 1960s and led NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Experiment.

Thomas H. Weller

Thomas H. Weller, also known as Thomas Huckle Weller, was an American virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing poliovirus in tissue culture.

Thomas Hagan

Thomas Hagan, aka Talmadge Hayer and Mujahid Abdul Halim, convicted 1966 of Malcolm X's murder, caught at the scene, confessed, named four accomplices in 1977 affidavits, paroled 2010 after 44 years.

Thomas Hakon Grönwall

Thomas Hakon Grönwall, born Hakon Tomi Grönwall, was a Swedish-born American mathematician (1877–1932) known for the 1919 Grönwall inequality, a summability method for series, and work on Fourier series.

Thomas Hall (Ohio politician)

Thomas Hall is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 46th district, in his third term as committee chair.

Thomas Hansen Kingo

Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703) was a Danish hymn writer, poet, and Lutheran bishop of Odense, regarded as Denmark's greatest baroque poet and main figure of Danish Lutheran hymnody.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet, author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure, set in fictional Wessex; after 1895 he wrote nearly a thousand poems.