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Tom Hamilton (musician)

Tom Hamilton, born Thomas William Hamilton in 1951, is the American bassist and founding member of the rock band Aerosmith, co-writing songs including "Sweet Emotion" and "Janie's Got a Gun".

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks (born 1956, Concord, California) is an American actor and filmmaker, star of Splash, Big, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, and the Toy Story franchise, and winner of back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.

Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy (Edward Thomas Hardy, born 1977) is a British actor from Bronson, Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road and Venom, an Oscar nominee for The Revenant and star of Paramount+'s MobLand.

Tom Harkin

Tom Harkin (born 1939) is a retired Iowa Democrat who served five House terms (1975-1985) and five Senate terms (1985-2015), authored the Americans with Disabilities Act, and chaired the Agriculture and HELP committees.

Tom Harmon

Tom Harmon (1919-1990), Michigan halfback 'Old 98', won the 1940 Heisman Trophy after finishing second in 1939, led the nation in scoring both years, served as a WWII pilot, and became a famed broadcaster.

Tom Hartley (psychologist)

Tom Hartley is a neuroscientist leading the Neural Representation Lab at the University of York, whose 2000 computational model predicted border cells, confirmed experimentally in 2008.

Tom Hatcher

Tom Hatcher is an American Republican politician serving in the Tennessee Senate from the 2nd district since January 2025, after serving as Blount County Circuit Court clerk.

Tom Haverford

Tom Haverford (Thomas Montgomery Haverford, born Darwish Sabir Ishmael Ghani) is the fictional Pawnee parks department administrator played by Aziz Ansari in all seven seasons of NBC's Parks and Recreation, known for business ventures like Entertainment 720 and Treat Yo Self.

Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden (1939-2016), American activist and politician; SDS founder and author of the 1962 Port Huron Statement; Chicago Seven defendant; California Assemblyman 1982 and state Senator 1992; author of Big Green.

Tom Heaton

Tom Heaton, English goalkeeper born 1986, Manchester United academy product and third-choice keeper since 2021; ex-Burnley captain (188 apps), Aston Villa, 3 England caps, Euro 2024 training goalkeeper.

Tom Heinsohn

Tom Heinsohn (1934-2020), Boston Celtics Hall of Fame forward, coach, and broadcaster; eight titles as a player, two as coach (1974, 1976), 1957 Rookie of the Year, only person tied to all 17 Celtics championships.

Tom Herman

Tom Herman, American college football coach; head coach at Houston, Texas, and Florida Atlantic (2015-2024), 60-38 record; 2014 Broyles Award winner at Ohio State; reportedly joining Florida State staff in 2026.

Tom Hicks

Tom Hicks (Thomas John Hicks, 1876–1952), English-born American marathoner, won the 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon in 3:28:53 using strychnine, egg white, and brandy, the first documented Olympic doping case.

Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston (born 1981, Westminster, London) is an English stage and screen actor; RADA graduate and Cambridge Classics double first. Famous as Loki in Thor, The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, and the Disney+ series Loki, and as Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager (Golden Globe 2017, two Emmy nominations 2016).

Tom Hoff

Tom Hoff, born Thomas John Hoff in 1973 in Chicago, is a retired American volleyball middle blocker who captained the United States to gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Tom Holkenborg

Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, is a Dutch composer born 1967 in Lichtenvoorde; Grammy-nominated electronic artist behind the 2002 Elvis remix, now a Hollywood film composer for Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, and Sonic.

Tom Holland

Tom Holland, full name Thomas Stanley Holland, is an English actor born in 1996 in Kingston upon Thames, best known for playing Peter Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man films.

Tom Holland (author)

Tom Holland (born 1968) is the British historian and broadcaster, author of Rubicon, Persian Fire, and Pax (not the actor), translator of Herodotus, and co-host of the podcast The Rest Is History with Dominic Sandbrook.

Tom Holland (filmmaker)

Tom Holland (born 1943) is an American horror screenwriter and director, also known as an actor under the name Tom Fielding. He wrote Psycho II, directed Fright Night (1985) and Child's Play (1988), and adapted Stephen King's The Langoliers and Thinner.

Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander (Thomas Anthony Hollander, born 1967, Bristol) is a British actor known for Mr Collins in Pride & Prejudice, Lord Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, Rev., The Night Manager (BAFTA win), and The White Lotus.

Tom Homan

Tom Homan is an American law enforcement official and White House Border Czar since 2025, who led deportation efforts as Acting Director of ICE from 2017 to 2018.

Tom Hooper

Tom Hooper (born 1972, London) is the British director of The King's Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl, Cats, and the HBO miniseries John Adams; Oscar and Emmy winner.

Tom Hopper

Tom Hopper (Thomas Edward Hopper, born 1985), English actor, not the Pixar Hoppers character: Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, Luther in The Umbrella Academy.

Tom Horn

Tom Horn (c. 1860-1903), American Old West army scout, Pinkerton detective, and Wyoming stock detective, hanged in Cheyenne on November 20, 1903, for the 1901 murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell; his guilt and 1902 trial remain contested.

Tom Howard (photographer)

Tom Howard, Chicago Tribune photographer who secretly photographed Ruth Snyder's 1928 Sing Sing electrocution with an ankle camera for the New York Daily News; later Sun-Times chief photographer, grandfather of George Wendt; not the Jack Ruby attorney or Utah painter.

Tom Huddlestone

Tom Huddlestone, full name Thomas Andrew Huddlestone, is an English former footballer, a defensive midfielder who won four England caps and the 2008 League Cup with Tottenham.

Tom Hughes (actor)

Tom Hughes (born 1986, Upton, Cheshire) is an English RADA-trained actor, not the painter, musician, or filmmaker of the same name. Known for Prince Albert in Victoria, Joe Lambe in The Game, and Malpractice season 2.

Tom Hulce

Tom Hulce (Thomas Edward Hulce), American actor and theater producer born 1953 in Whitewater, Wisconsin; Oscar-nominated as Mozart in Amadeus, Pinto in Animal House, voice of Quasimodo; Tony-winning producer of Spring Awakening.

Tom Humphreys

Tom Humphreys was an American molecular biologist at the University of Hawaiʻi who showed how stored maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs is activated at fertilization.

Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter, or Sir Thomas Blane Hunter, is a Scottish entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Sports Division and sold it to JJB Sports in 1998 for £290m.