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Tom kha kai (ต้มข่าไก่)
Tom kha kai (ต้มข่าไก่), or tom kha gai, is a Thai coconut milk chicken soup from central Thailand flavored with galangal, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves; unlike tom yum it uses coconut milk, and TasteAtlas named it the world's best chicken soup in 2023.
Tom King (writer)
Tom King (born 1978) is an American comic book writer and former CIA counterterrorism officer, known for The Vision, Mister Miracle, The Sheriff of Babylon, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and his DC Batman run.
Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen (1893–1974) was a Danish author and literary critic, a leading interwar figure best known for the novel Hærværk (1930) and decades as Politiken's chief reviewer.
Tom Laughlin
Tom Laughlin (Thomas Robert Laughlin Jr.) was an American performer and filmmaker known for inventing and starring as Billy Jack in films from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer (Thomas Andrew Lehrer, 1928–2025) was an American song satirist and Harvard-trained mathematician known for "The Elements," "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," and self-pressed 1950s comedy albums; he taught at UC Santa Cruz and released all his songs to the public domain in 2020.
Tom Lester
Tom Lester (Thomas William Lester, 1938-2020), American actor and evangelist, played farmhand Eb Dawson on Green Acres (1965-1971), its crossovers, and Return to Green Acres; later a Mississippi farmer and speaker.
Tom Lipinski
Tom Lipinski (born 1982) is an American actor and documentary producer known as Trevor Evans in Suits, for the young Josh Brolin role in Labor Day, The Knick, Billions, and the Murrow Award-winning podcast Gone South.
Tom MacDonald (rapper)
Tom MacDonald (Thomas MacDonald, born 1988) is a Canadian independent rapper and former pro wrestler in Los Angeles, known for politically charged songs like "Fake Woke," the Adam Calhoun albums The Brave and The Brave II, and the 2024 Ben Shapiro single "Facts."
Tom McCarthy (director)
Tom McCarthy (born 1966, New Providence, New Jersey) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor, distinct from the novelist and other namesakes. He directed The Station Agent, The Visitor, Win Win, and Spotlight, which won the 2016 Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Tom McGowan
Tom McGowan (born 1959, Belmar, New Jersey) is an American character actor, Tony-nominated for La Bete on Broadway in 1991, Obie winner for The Food Chain, known as Kenny Daly on Frasier, and a recurring Wizard in Wicked.
Tom McGrath (animator)
Tom McGrath (animator), born 1964 or 1965, American DreamWorks Animation director and voice actor; co-directed Madagascar with Eric Darnell, directed Megamind and The Boss Baby films, and voices Skipper the penguin.
Tom McKay (actor)
Tom McKay (born 1979, Solihull, England) is an English actor; played Jasper Tudor in The White Queen, Jim McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys, and voices Henry of Skalitz in Kingdom Come: Deliverance I and II. Distinct from the Blackburn comedy director of the same name.
Tom McKinney (broadcaster)
Tom McKinney, British broadcaster and classical guitarist, presents BBC Radio 3's weekday Breakfast from Salford since April 2025; RNCM-trained, presenting on Radio 3 since 2012, birdwatcher, Essay writer on bird migration. Not the American writers of the same name.
Tom Meighan
Tom Meighan (Thomas Peter Meighan), English rock singer from Blaby, Leicestershire; founding frontman of Kasabian 1997-2020, six albums, then dismissed after a 2020 assault conviction; solo albums The Reckoning, Roadrunner, The Past The Present The Raw.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison (Thomas James Mison, born 1982, Woking, Surrey) is an English stage and screen actor and writer, known as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017) and for Watchmen, See, Posh, and the 2026 de Gaulle film as Anthony Eden.
Tom Mix
Tom Mix, born Thomas Edwin Mix, was an American actor who was the leading silent Western film star of the 1920s and reportedly Hollywood's highest-paid actor by 1928.
Tom Monaghan
Tom Monaghan (born 1937, Ann Arbor, Michigan), founder of Domino's Pizza, which he started as DomiNick's in Ypsilanti in 1960, built the 30-minute delivery chain to over 5,000 stores, owned the Detroit Tigers, and founded Legatus and Ave Maria University.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello, born 1964 in New York, is the Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist known for toggle-switch DJ-scratch effects, the Arm the Homeless guitar, activism, The Nightwatchman, and the 2026 album Everyone Gets Everything They Want.
Tom Murphy
Tom Murphy (1935–2018) was an Irish playwright from Tuam, County Galway, whose more than 20 plays, from A Whistle in the Dark (1961) onward, became mainstays of Irish theater.
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan (Thomas Patrick Noonan, 1951-2026) was an American character actor, playwright, and Sundance-winning director, the 6 ft 6 in villain of Manhunter, RoboCop 2, and Heat, and the voice of nearly everyone in Anomalisa.
Tom O'Connor (comedian)
Tom O'Connor (Thomas Patrick O'Connor, 1939-2021), Liverpool-born English stand-up comedian and game show host, won Opportunity Knocks three times and hosted Name That Tune, Crosswits, Gambit and The Zodiac Game.
Tom Odell
Tom Odell (born 1990, Chichester) is a British piano-led singer-songwriter, BRITs Critics' Choice 2013 first male winner, whose debut Long Way Down topped the UK chart and whose single Another Love passed three billion Spotify streams.
Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) was a Finnish artist whose homoerotic leather-and-uniform drawings, first published in 1957 in Physique Pictorial, shaped gay male aesthetics; his Los Angeles foundation preserves over 2,000 original works.
Tom Owen (actor)
Tom Owen (Thomas William Stevenson Rowbotham, 1949–2022), British actor, son of Bill Owen; played Tom Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine (2000–2010, 93 episodes) and Bill Cowan in Freewheelers.
Tom Papa
Tom Papa (Thomas Papa Jr.) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for clean, observational comedy about family life and for touring as Jerry Seinfeld's opening act.
Tom Paris
Tom Paris (Thomas Eugene Paris) is the helmsman of Star Trek: Voyager, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, a reformed ex-Starfleet pilot and Maquis based on Nicholas Locarno, husband of B'Elanna Torres and father of Miral Paris.
Tom Parker (singer)
Tom Parker, Bolton-born English singer (died 30 March 2022, aged 33), member of the British-Irish boy band The Wanted; ten UK Top 10 singles including "All Time Low" and "Glad You Came"; died of stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosed October 2020.
Tom Parker Bowles
Tom Parker Bowles (born 1974), also Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles, British food writer, critic and broadcaster, son of Queen Camilla and godson of King Charles III; Mail on Sunday restaurant critic, MasterChef judge, author of Cooking and the Crown and Full English.
Tom Payne (actor)
Tom Payne (born 1982, Chelmsford, Essex) is an English actor, not the Bristol casting director of the same name; known as Jesus on The Walking Dead, Malcolm Bright on Prodigal Son, and Rob Cole in The Physician.
Tom Pelphrey
Tom Pelphrey (Thomas J. Pelphrey, born 1982, Howell, New Jersey) is an American actor, Rutgers-trained, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for Guiding Light, known for Ozark's Ben Davis, Banshee, Iron Fist, Outer Range, and HBO's Task, for which he won the 2026 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.