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Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie (2018) is a CG-animated Thomas film, also called Big World! Big Adventures!, in which Thomas leaves Sodor, travels five continents, and meets Nia, the first African tank engine.
Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery
Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery, aka Blue Mountain Mystery, is the 2012 CGI Thomas special, seventh in the series, directed by Greg Tiernan, written by Sharon Miller, about Thomas helping the hiding engine Luke at Blue Mountain Quarry.
Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery
Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery is a 2008 British animated children's film in the Thomas & Friends franchise, directed by Steve Asquith and narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
Thomas & Friends: The Great Race is a 2016 animated film directed by David Stoten and written by Andrew Brenner, the eleventh feature-length film of the Thomas & Friends franchise.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès (born 1971, London) is a British composer, conductor, and pianist, also known for his operas Powder Her Face, The Tempest, and The Exterminating Angel; Asyla won the 1999 Grawemeyer Award, and he led the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008.
Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah is a 1986 poetry collection by Rita Dove, loosely based on her maternal grandparents, that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a 2000 children's adventure film directed by Britt Allcroft, the first feature film based on Thomas the Tank Engine.
Thomas Anders
Thomas Anders (Bernd Weidung, born 1963) is a German pop singer, lead vocalist of Modern Talking with Dieter Bohlen; hits include "You're My Heart, You're My Soul"; over 125 million records sold; ongoing solo and sings-Modern-Talking projects.
Thomas Annan
Thomas Annan (1829–1887) was a Scottish photographer and a pioneer of documentary photography, best known for The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, photographs of the city's slums made between 1868 and 1871 before their demolition.
Thomas Artsruni
Thomas Artsruni, known in Armenian as T'ovma Arcruni, was a late 9th-century Armenian historian and vardapet from the Artsruni princely house, best known for his History of the House of the Artsrunik'.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay: British Whig historian, essayist, poet, and politician; author of History of England (1848-55) and the 1835 Minute on Indian Education that made English the language of government education in India.
Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalter (born 1975, Paris) is a French musician, DJ, and composer, co-founder of Daft Punk (1993–2021), creator of the Roulé label and Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You", and later a composer of orchestral ballet scores including Mythologies.
Thomas Banks
Thomas Banks (1735–1805) was an English neoclassical sculptor, remembered for poetic funerary monuments such as the Penelope Boothby monument and the first war monument erected in St Paul's Cathedral.
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), Austrian novelist and playwright, author of Frost, Korrektur, and Heldenplatz; his final play sparked Austria's 1988 theater scandal and he banned Austrian publication of his works in his will.
Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) was an English wood engraver in Newcastle upon Tyne who rebuilt wood engraving as a practical technique and set the standard for illustrated natural history books.
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English physician and editor of The Family Shakespeare (1818 ten-volume edition; 1807 edition largely by his sister Henrietta), whose name produced the verb bowdlerize.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 1990, London) is an English actor known as Sam in Love Actually, the voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb, Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones, Newt in Maze Runner, and Emmy-nominated Benny Watts in The Queen's Gambit; married to Talulah Riley since 2024.
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 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 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 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 Coombes
Thomas Coombes (full name Thomas Hamilton Coombes) is a British stage and screen actor from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, known for playing Goz in Save Me and Officer Daniels in Baby Reindeer.
Thomas Crawford (sculptor)
Thomas Crawford was an American neoclassical sculptor who spent most of his career in Rome and created more exterior sculpture of the United States Capitol than any other sculptor.
Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice (1808–1860), American white blackface actor and playwright, creator of the Jim Crow character and "Jump Jim Crow" song-and-dance act; called the father of American minstrelsy, toured the US and Britain from 1836, and gave Jim Crow its name legacy.
Thomas Dambo
Thomas Dambo, born in 1979 in Odense, Denmark, is a Danish recycle artist and designer known for monumental troll sculptures built from discarded wood in 19 countries.
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English Romantic essayist, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), the first autobiographical account of drug addiction; also wrote Recollections of the Lake Poets and Suspiria de Profundis.
Thomas Dekker (actor)
Thomas Dekker (actor), born 1987 in Las Vegas, is an American actor and musician known for John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Zach in Heroes, Adam Conant in The Secret Circle, and Littlefoot voice work; distinct from the Dutch cyclist and the Elizabethan dramatist of the same name.
Thomas Doherty (actor)
Thomas Doherty is a Scottish actor and singer, born 1995 in Edinburgh, known for Disney's The Lodge and as Harry Hook in Descendants 2 and 3, and as Max Wolfe in HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot; later work includes The Invitation, Dandelion, and Little Shop of Horrors.
Thomas Dolby
Thomas Dolby (Thomas Morgan Robertson) is an English synth-pop musician behind "She Blinded Me with Science" and The Golden Age of Wireless, later founder of Beatnik ringtone technology and Johns Hopkins Homewood Professor of the Arts.