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Thomas Mofolo
Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948) was a Sesotho novelist from Basutoland, now Lesotho, who wrote the first novels in Southern Sotho at the Morija mission press, including Chaka (1925).
Thomas Mollenkamp
Thomas Mollenkamp (Thomas Möllenkamp), born 1961 in Osnabrück, is a retired West German rower; he won gold in the men's eight at Seoul 1988 and placed fourth in the coxless pairs at Los Angeles 1984.
Thomas Mooney
Thomas Joseph Mooney (1882–1942), American socialist labor organizer convicted of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing on perjured testimony, death sentence commuted by Wilson's 1918 commission, pardoned by Governor Culbert Olson on January 7, 1939 after 22 years.
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet and songwriter known as "Anacreon Moore," wrote the Irish Melodies (1808–1834) set to Irish airs, the oriental romance Lalla Rookh, and the standard biography of Lord Byron.
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), English humanist, author of Utopia and History of King Richard III, Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII from 1529, executed 1535 for refusing the royal supremacy over the Church of England.
Thomas Morgenstern
Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper (born 1986, Spittal an der Drau), three-time Olympic champion 2006 and 2010, 23 World Cup wins, retired 2014 after crashes, later competitive helicopter pilot.
Thomas Mrsic-Flogel
Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel is a systems neuroscientist who directs the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, studying how cortical circuits support perception and decision-making.
Thomas Mudge
Thomas Mudge (1715/16–1794) was an English horologist and watchmaker, apprentice to George Graham, who invented the detached lever escapement and later built marine timekeepers for finding longitude at sea.
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller is a physicist who has been Professor for Two-dimensional Optoelectronics at TU Wien since 2022, known for ultrafast graphene photodetectors developed at IBM Research.
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller (born 1989, Weilheim) is a German attacking midfielder, the Raumdeuter, Bayern Munich's record appearance maker (756 games, 13 Bundesliga titles, 2014 World Cup winner), now a Vancouver Whitecaps Designated Player since August 2025.
Thomas Munkelt
Thomas Munkelt, East German 110m hurdler born 1952 in Zedtlitz, Saxony; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion (13.39), European champion 1978 and 1982, four-time European indoor 60m hurdles titlist, later a dentist in Kitzscher.
Thomas Munro
Thomas Munro (थॉमस मुंरो; 1761–1827) was a Scottish soldier and administrator in the service of the East India Company, serving as Governor of Madras from 1820 to 1827.
Thomas Müntzer
Thomas Müntzer, born around 1490 in Stolberg, Thuringia, was a German radical reformer and apocalyptic preacher who took part in the Peasants' War of 1524 to 1525.
Thomas Münzel
Thomas Münzel is a German cardiologist at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for work on nitrate tolerance, noise, and air pollution as cardiovascular risk factors.
Thomas Murner
Thomas Murner (1475–1537) was a Franciscan priest and German satirist from Oberehnheim in Alsace, famed for the Narrenbeschwörung and Schelmenzunft and for roughly thirty anti-Luther pamphlets.
Thomas Murray MacRobert
Thomas Murray MacRobert (1884–1962) was a Scottish mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, known for his work on the hypergeometric function and the E-function.
Thomas Muster
Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player, the "King of Clay"; 1995 French Open champion, world No. 1 from 12 February 1996, 44 ATP titles, comeback after a 1989 drunk-driving accident.
Thomas N. Carver
Thomas N. Carver (1865–1961) was an American economist who taught political economy at Harvard for thirty-two years and led the American Economic Association in 1916.
Thomas N. James
Thomas N. James (1925–2010) was an American cardiologist and cardiovascular pathologist known for research on the coronary arteries and conduction system, and served as president of the American Heart Association.
Thomas N. Taylor
Thomas N. Taylor (1938–2016) was an American paleobotanist who studied fossil plants and fungi and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.
Thomas N. Williams
Thomas N. Williams, known as Tom Williams, is a British pediatrician and haemoglobinopathy researcher at Imperial College London who studies sickle cell disease and malaria resistance in Kilifi, Kenya.
Thomas Nadalini
Thomas Nadalini (born 2002, Trento) is an Italian short track speed skater with Fiamme Oro; 2026 Olympic mixed relay gold and men's relay bronze medalist, 2020 Youth Olympic relay bronze medalist.
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel (born 1937) is an American philosopher, NYU Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus, author of "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), The View from Nowhere, and Mind and Cosmos, known for the subjective–objective contrast and the 2008 Rolf Schock and Balzan prizes.
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe, also spelled Nash, was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer and satirist, remembered for his inventive prose and The Unfortunate Traveller (1594), the first picaresque novel in English.
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), German-born American editorial cartoonist at Harper's Weekly 1862-1886, called the Father of the American Cartoon; created the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, Tammany tiger, and modern Santa Claus, and toppled Boss Tweed.
Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman, full name Thomas Montgomery Newman, born 1955 in Los Angeles, is an American composer for film and television known for American Beauty, Finding Nemo, and Skyfall.
Thomas Ng
Thomas Ng is a Singapore-based venture capitalist who co-founded GGV Capital, originally Granite Global Ventures, after founding Venture TDF, and helped finance Alibaba's first institutional round in 1999.
Thomas Nickerson
Thomas Nickerson, also known as Thomas Gibson Nickerson, was an American sailor and author, the Essex cabin boy who wrote a firsthand account of the 1820 sinking, published in 1984.
Thomas Nyström
Thomas Nyström is a Swedish microbiologist and professor at the University of Gothenburg, a professor since 1998, known for showing that damaged proteins are inherited asymmetrically in budding yeast.
Thomas O. Carpenter
Thomas O. Carpenter, also known as Thomas Carpenter, is an American pediatric endocrinologist, Professor Emeritus at Yale, who led the 2018 burosumab trial for X-linked hypophosphatemia.