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Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was an English portrait painter who dominated British portraiture in the early nineteenth century and served as President of the Royal Academy.
Thomas Lennon
Thomas Patrick Lennon (born 1970, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter, a member of The State, co-creator and star of Reno 911! as Lt. Jim Dangle, co-writer with Robert Ben Garant of the Night at the Museum films, and Felix Unger in CBS's The Odd Couple reboot.
Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti (born 1953, Detroit) is an American weird-fiction and supernatural horror writer, author of Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Teatro Grottesco, and The Conspiracy Against the Human Race; a philosophical pessimist and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner.
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and satirist whose seven satirical novels caricatured Romantic-era figures at dinner tables; his essay The Four Ages of Poetry prompted Shelley's Defence of Poetry.
Thomas Magnum
Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV is the fictional private investigator lead of Magnum, P.I., played by Tom Selleck (1980–88) and Jay Hernandez (2018 reboot), a Vietnam vet/Navy SEAL on Oahu at Robin's Nest with a red Ferrari.
Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415–1471) was an English knight, imprisoned for much of his later life, who wrote Le Morte Darthur, the most influential account of King Arthur in English.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist and 1929 Nobel laureate, author of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus; anti-fascist exile in the United States 1938–1952.
Thomas Mann (actor)
Thomas Randall Mann Jr., born 1991, is an American actor known for Project X (2012) and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), with roles in Kong: Skull Island and Fargo.
Thomas Mann Prize
The Thomas Mann Prize (Thomas-Mann-Preis) is a German literary prize, endowed with 25,000 euros and awarded jointly by the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2010.
Thomas Markle
Thomas Markle (Thomas Wayne Markle Sr., born 1944, Newport, Pennsylvania) is a retired American TV lighting director and director of photography for General Hospital and Married... with Children, two-time Daytime Emmy winner, and estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
Thomas Mars
Thomas Mars (born 1976, Versailles) is the French lead vocalist of indie pop band Phoenix, whose 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix brought the hits 1901 and Lisztomania and a Grammy; he is married to Sofia Coppola.
Thomas Martojo
Thomas Martojo is a Dutch festival director, music programmer, and DJ, best known as co-founder of Dekmantel, the Amsterdam electronic-music festival he programs, and of its record label.
Thomas Middleditch
Thomas Middleditch, born in 1982 in Nelson, British Columbia, is a Canadian-American actor and comedian who starred on HBO's Silicon Valley and earned a 2016 Emmy nomination.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet, one of the most successful dramatists of James I's reign, who co-wrote Timon of Athens with Shakespeare.
Thomas Mikal Ford
Thomas Mikal Ford (1964–2016), also called Tommy Ford, American actor and comedian who played Tommy Strawn on all 132 episodes of Fox's Martin, later Lt. Malcolm Barker on New York Undercover and Mel Parker on The Parkers; died in Atlanta of a ruptured abdominal aneurysm.
Thomas Mitchell (actor)
Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962), American character actor of Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind, and It's a Wonderful Life; first performer to win the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Triple Crown.
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 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 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 Percy (bishop)
Thomas Percy (1729 to 1811) was an English antiquarian and Anglican clergyman, bishop of Dromore from 1782, whose Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) inspired British and German Romanticism.
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 Rhett
Thomas Rhett (Thomas Rhett Akins Jr., born 1990, Valdosta, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter, son of Rhett Akins; Life Changes (2017) hit No. 1 across all genres, with 22 No. 1 singles and diamond-certified Die a Happy Man.
Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff (born 1958) is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for series examining photography's genres, from passport-style portraits to enlarged star images and reworked internet photographs.
Thomas Sadoski
Thomas Sadoski, born 1976 in Connecticut, is an American actor and producer known for Broadway's Reasons to Be Pretty (Tony nomination), Don Keefer on The Newsroom, Life in Pieces, John Wick, and War Child USA activism.
Thomas Sanders (entertainer)
Thomas Sanders, born 1989, is an American internet personality known for his Vine series Narrating People's Lives and the YouTube series Sanders Sides, which he launched in 2016.
Thomas Schlamme
Thomas Schlamme (Thomas David Schlamme, born 1950, Houston) is an American television director and producer of Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60, creator of the walk-and-talk Steadicam style, nine-time Emmy winner, and DGA President from 2017.