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Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta, born Thomas R. Perrotta in 1961, is an American novelist and screenwriter whose comic satires of suburban life include Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers.
Tom Petersson
Tom Petersson (born 1950, Rockford, Illinois) is Cheap Trick's founding bassist and inventor of the 12-string bass, first built by Hamer in 1977-78; left 1980-1987, Rock Hall 2016, Gretsch and Waterstone signature models.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty (1950–2017) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Gainesville, Florida, frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their 1976 debut.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American rock band from Gainesville, Florida, formed from Mudcrutch; debut 1976 on Shelter, breakthrough Damn the Torpedoes (1979), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2002, 50th anniversary Origins box set.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (album)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976), the band's debut album on Shelter Records, produced by Denny Cordell, featuring Breakdown and American Girl; slow US sales, UK breakthrough in 1977.
Tom Poston
Tom Poston (Thomas Gordon Poston, 1921–2007), American comic actor and 1959 Emmy winner as Steve Allen's man-on-the-street amnesiac; played George Utley on Newhart and Bickley on Mork & Mindy; married Suzanne Pleshette in 2001; died April 30, 2007, in Los Angeles.
Tom Ripley
Tom Ripley is Patricia Highsmith's amoral con artist and murderer, introduced in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) and continued across the five-novel Ripliad, adapted on screen by Alain Delon, Matt Damon, John Malkovich, and Andrew Scott.
Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene Robbins, 1932 to 2025) was an American novelist whose comic countercultural novels, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, drew a cult following from the 1970s.
Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts (1856–1931), English-born Australian painter of the Heidelberg School, known for Shearing the rams, Bailed up, the 1901 Big Picture, and proposing a national portrait gallery.
Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson (born 1950, Cambridge) is a British singer-songwriter, bassist, and BBC 6 Music presenter whose Tom Robinson Band scored UK hits with "2-4-6-8 Motorway" and "Glad to Be Gay".
Tom Rosenthal (actor)
Tom Rosenthal (Thomas Alan Smith Rosenthal, born 1988) is an English comedian and actor, Jonny Goodman in Friday Night Dinner and Marcus in Plebs, distinct from the singer-songwriter Tom Rosenthal born 1986.
Tom Sandoval
Tom Sandoval is an American reality TV personality, musician, and bar owner, an original Vanderpump Rules cast member whose 2023 affair with Raquel Leviss, dubbed Scandoval, made him widely known as a reality TV villain.
Tom Savini
Tom Savini (born 1946, Pittsburgh) is an American special make-up effects artist, actor, stuntman, and director, the 'Godfather of Gore' behind Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, and Day of the Dead, and founder of a makeup effects school.
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's fictional boy protagonist, introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and recurring in Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective; a mischievous, imaginative Missouri boy based on a composite of three boys Twain knew.
Tom Sawyer (song)
"Tom Sawyer" is a 1981 song by Canadian rock band Rush, opening track and first single of Moving Pictures; lyrics by Neil Peart and Pye Dubois, 4/4 verses with 7/8 solo sections, and Rush's signature song.
Tom Schilling
Tom Schilling (born 1982, East Berlin) is a German actor and musician, not the 1928–2026 choreographer of the same name. Known for Crazy, Oh Boy (German Film Award 2013), Werk ohne Autor, and as Björn Diemel in Netflix's Achtsam Morden (German Television Award 2026).
Tom Scholz
Tom Scholz (Donald Thomas Scholz, born 1947, Toledo, Ohio), MIT-trained engineer, founder of the rock band Boston, and inventor of the Rockman and Power Soak guitar gear via Scholz Research & Development.
Tom Segura
Tom Segura: American stand-up comedian and podcaster; six Netflix specials including Teacher and Sledgehammer; co-founder of YMH Studios with Your Mom's House and 2 Bears, 1 Cave; 2025 Emmy-nominated for Bad Thoughts.
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck, born 1945 in Detroit, is the American actor behind Magnum P.I. (1980-1988, Emmy 1984), who declined Indiana Jones, starred in Three Men and a Baby, the Jesse Stone films, Friends, and Blue Bloods, and wrote the 2024 memoir You Never Know.
Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac (Thomas Peter Shadyac, born 1958) is an American director of 1990s-2000s hit comedies (Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, nearly $2 billion gross) who after a 2007 bike crash sold his mansion, made the documentary I Am, and turned to teaching and Memphis Rox.
Tom Six
Tom Six (born 1973, Alkmaar, Netherlands) is the Dutch director of The Human Centipede trilogy, ex-Big Brother director, co-founder of Six Entertainment; his unreleased The Onania Club and 2026 farewell documentary The End of Tom Six mark his career's end.
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore (1961-2023), American character actor of Heat, Saving Private Ryan, and Black Hawk Down, whose tough-guy career was derailed by addiction and domestic violence convictions; died of a brain aneurysm.
Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt (Thomas Roy Skerritt, born August 25, 1933) is an American actor known for M*A*S*H, Alien's Captain Dallas, Top Gun's Viper, and Emmy-winning Sheriff Jimmy Brock on Picket Fences.
Tom Skinner (drummer)
Tom Skinner (born 1980) is a London drummer, composer, and producer, co-founder of Sons of Kemet and drummer of The Smile with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood; solo albums Voices of Bishara (2022) and Kaleidoscopic Visions (2025).
Tom Smothers
Tom Smothers (1937-2023), American comedian and musician, older half of the Smothers Brothers folk-comedy duo with brother Dick; co-host of CBS's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-69), fired over censorship battles, later won a lawsuit against CBS.
Tom Staar
Tom Staar is an English DJ and record producer in big room and progressive house, based in Ibiza, known for 'Totem' and 'Jericho' and an IDMA win.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard (Tomáš Straussler, 1937–2025), Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter; author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, and Leopoldstadt; five Tony Awards and an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.
Tom Sturridge
Tom Sturridge (Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge, born 1985, London) is an English actor, son of director Charles Sturridge and actress Phoebe Nicholls; twice Tony-nominated (Orphans, Sea Wall/A Life) and star of Netflix's The Sandman as Dream/Morpheus.
Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson, full name Thomas John Thomson, was a Canadian landscape painter whose oil paintings of northern Ontario shaped modern Canadian art before he drowned in Algonquin Park in 1917.
Tom Thumb (1958 film)
Tom Thumb (1958) is a George Pal British-American musical fantasy adapted from the Grimm tale Daumesdick, starring Russ Tamblyn, Terry-Thomas, and Peter Sellers; it won the 1959 Oscar for Best Special Effects for its oversized-set trickery.