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Thomas Picton

Sir Thomas Picton (1758–1815) was a Welsh soldier and first British governor of Trinidad, convicted of torture in 1806 and killed at Waterloo in 1815.

Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty, born 1971, is a French economist known for his work on income and wealth inequality and his 2014 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Thomas Pilgrim

Thomas Pilgrim is a Swiss interventional cardiologist at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, where he became Deputy Chief Physician and Head of Valvular Heart Diseases in 2020.

Thomas Pischke

Thomas Pischke is a German fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the Berlin brokerage Trade Republic in 2015 and serves as a managing director of Trade Republic Bank GmbH.

Thomas Pitera

Thomas "Tommy Karate" Pitera (born 1954) is a Bonanno crime family hitman convicted in 1992 of six murders and drug trafficking, serving life at USP Big Sandy; a Pete Davidson film recounts his case.

Thomas Platts-Mills

Thomas Platts-Mills, born 1941, is a British-born immunologist and University of Virginia professor known for linking asthma to dust mites and discovering tick-bite red meat allergy.

Thomas Pogge

Thomas Pogge is a German philosopher, Leitner Professor at Yale since 2008, who argues that affluent countries harm the world's poor through an unjust global order.

Thomas Poulsen

Thomas Poulsen (born 1970, Hørsholm) is a Danish lightweight rower, member of the Guldfireren crew that won 1996 Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four, a five-time world champion, and later a Danish national rowing coach.

Thomas Powles

Thomas Powles is a British medical oncologist, Professor of Genitourinary Oncology and Director of Barts Cancer Centre in London, known for bladder cancer trials including NIAGARA and EV-302.

Thomas Préat

Thomas Préat, also written Thomas Preat, is a French biologist and CNRS research director at ESPCI Paris who studies memory and brain energy metabolism in Drosophila.

Thomas precession

Thomas precession is a rotation of an accelerating particle's rest frame predicted by special relativity, identified by Llewellyn Thomas in 1926 and halving the spin-orbit coupling in atoms.

Thomas Pressly

Thomas Pressly is an American politician and attorney serving as a Republican Louisiana state senator from District 38, representing Caddo and DeSoto parishes; he was elected to the Louisiana House in 2019.

Thomas Pringle Award

The Thomas Pringle Award is an annual South African literary award for work published in newspapers, periodicals, and journals, administered by the English Academy of Southern Africa.

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon, American novelist of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow (1974 National Book Award), Vineland, and Shadow Ticket (2025); reclusive, MacArthur Fellow, counterrealist postmodern fiction.

Thomas Quasthoff

Thomas Quasthoff (born 1959, Hildesheim) is a German bass-baritone, thalidomide-affected, who won the 1988 ARD Competition, recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with three Grammys, retired from classical singing in 2012, and now teaches, sings jazz, and runs the Das Lied competition.

Thomas Quertermous

Thomas Quertermous is a cardiologist and molecular biologist who studies the genetics of coronary artery disease, holding the William G. Irwin Professorship of Medicine at Stanford University.

Thomas Quinn (astrophysicist)

Thomas Quinn is a computational astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, known for work on dark matter halos, long-period comets, and the Gasoline simulation code.

Thomas R. Anthony

Thomas Richard Anthony (1941–2017) was an American materials scientist who spent 36 years at General Electric, held about 168 patents, and led GE's CVD diamond program.

Thomas R. Cech

Thomas R. Cech, born in 1947, is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder whose 1982 discovery that RNA can act as a catalyst earned the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Thomas R. Clandinin

Thomas R. Clandinin is an American neuroscientist who studies how the genome programs neural circuits for innate behavior, using the fruit fly visual system, at Stanford University.

Thomas R. Dawber

Thomas R. Dawber (1913–2005) was a Canadian-born American physician and epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study, which identified the major risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Thomas R. Fleming

Thomas R. Fleming is an American biostatistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, co-developer of the O'Brien-Fleming method for early trial stopping and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Thomas R. Frieden

Thomas R. Frieden is an American public health physician who directed the CDC from 2009 to 2017 and led New York City's health department, eliminating artificial trans fats.

Thomas R. Hendrix

Thomas R. Hendrix was an American gastroenterologist who founded and directed the Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology from 1957 to 1988, and served as president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Thomas R. Hoye

Thomas R. Hoye is an American organic chemist at the University of Minnesota, known for the hexadehydro-Diels–Alder reaction for generating benzyne intermediates, reported in Nature in 2012.

Thomas R. Insel

Thomas R. Insel is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015 and later led mental health at Google's Verily.

Thomas R. Karl

Thomas R. Karl is an American climate scientist who directed NOAA's National Climatic Data Center from 1998 to 2015 and co-chaired the first two US National Climate Assessments.

Thomas R. Kleyman

Thomas R. Kleyman is an American nephrologist and physiologist who studies the epithelial sodium channel and leads the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas R. Knutson

Thomas R. Knutson is an American research meteorologist and Senior Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, known for modeling how greenhouse warming changes tropical cyclones.

Thomas R. Kuesel

Thomas R. Kuesel (Thomas Robert Kuesel) was an American tunnel and bridge engineer, chairman of Parsons Brinckerhoff, who designed the BART Trans-Bay Tube's seismic defenses and co-edited the Tunnel Engineering Handbook.