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Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club is the dance-rock and new wave band formed in 1981 by Talking Heads rhythm section Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, known for "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love", the latter one of hip-hop's most sampled tracks, famously behind Mariah Carey's "Fantasy".
Tom Tryon
Tom Tryon (Thomas Lester Tryon, 1926-1991), American actor turned novelist; starred in The Cardinal and Texas John Slaughter, then wrote the horror best sellers The Other (1971) and Harvest Home (1973).
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer, German director, screenwriter, producer, and composer born 1965 in Wuppertal; maker of Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas, and Babylon Berlin; co-founder of X-Filme Creative Pool and One Fine Day Films.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (born 1977, Dublin) is an Irish actor, Nidge in RTÉ's Love/Hate and Ebony Maw in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame; RADA-trained, multiple IFTA and Irish Times theatre award winner.
Tom Verica
Tom Verica (born 1964, Philadelphia) is an American actor, director, and executive producer; Head of Creative Production at Shondaland. Directed all of Queen Charlotte and key Bridgerton episodes; acted as Jack Pryor in American Dreams and Sam Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine (Thomas Miller, 1949-2023) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who founded the New York band Television, recorded Marquee Moon (1977), released eight solo albums including Dreamtime, and influenced punk, post-punk, and alt-rock guitarists.
Tom Villard
Tom Villard (born 1953, died 1994) was an American actor; Tom Villard played Jay Bostwick on We Got It Made and Toby in Popcorn, died of AIDS-related pneumonia.
Tom Waits
Tom Waits, born Thomas Alan Waits in Pomona, California in 1949, is an American singer-songwriter and actor known for a gravelly voice and music spanning piano ballads to experimental rock.
Tom Waits discography
Tom Waits discography: recorded catalog of Thomas Alan Waits (born 1949), from 1973's Closing Time through the Island trilogy (Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank's Wild Years), Bone Machine, Mule Variations, and 2011's Bad as Me, plus 2026 singles with Massive Attack.
Tom Walker (singer)
Tom Walker (Thomas Alexander Walker, born 1991) is a Scottish singer-songwriter raised in Manchester, known for "Leave a Light On," the 2019 UK number-one debut album What a Time to Be Alive, the 2019 Brit Breakthrough Award, and the 2024 album I Am.
Tom Welling
Tom Welling, American actor born 1977, played Clark Kent for ten seasons on Smallville (2001-2011), later directed, produced, appeared in Lucifer and The Winchesters, and cohosts the Talk Ville podcast.
Tom Werner
Tom Werner (Thomas Charles Werner, born 1950), American TV producer and sports executive; co-founded Carsey-Werner (The Cosby Show, Roseanne), chairman of Fenway Sports Group, Boston Red Sox, and Liverpool F.C.
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson (Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson, 1948-2023) was an English actor, born in Leeds, Oscar-nominated for In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton, Bafta winner for The Full Monty, Emmy and Golden Globe winner for John Adams.
Tom Wilson (music producer)
Tom Wilson (Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr., 1931-1978) was an American record producer, Harvard-educated, who founded Transition jazz label, produced Bob Dylan's electric turn and "Like a Rolling Stone," electrified Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence," and produced the Velvet Underground and Mothers of Invention debuts.
Tom Wlaschiha
Tom Wlaschiha (Thomas Wlaschiha, born 1973 in Dohna, Saxony) is a German actor known for Jaqen H'ghar in Game of Thrones, Dmitri "Enzo" Antonov in Stranger Things 4, and Hagen Forster in Das Boot; he speaks six languages and self-dubs his English roles.
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018), American journalist and novelist, founder of New Journalism; wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities; famous for white suits and exclamation-marked prose.
Tom Wopat
Tom Wopat (born 1951, Lodi, Wisconsin) is an American actor and singer, Luke Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard (CBS, 1979-1985), a two-time Tony-nominated Broadway performer, and a jazz and country recording artist.
Tom Wu
Tom Wu (吴, born 1972, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born British actor and wushu competitor; not Daniel Wu. Known as Hundred Eyes in Marco Polo, Lord George in The Gentlemen, and roles in Skyfall, Kick-Ass 2, Havoc, and 3 Body Problem.
Tom yum
Tom yum (ต้มยำ), also tom yum kung, is Thailand's hot-and-sour herb soup of lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves with prawns; UNESCO-inscribed in 2024, with clear (nam sai) and creamy (nam khon) versions.
Tom yum kung (ต้มยำกุ้ง)
Tom yum kung (ต้มยำกุ้ง, Tomyum Kung) is Thailand's hot-and-sour prawn soup of lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves, with clear (nam sai) and creamy (nam khon) versions; inscribed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2024.
Tom Zanetti
Tom Zanetti (Thomas Byron Courtney, born 1989, Leeds) is a British DJ, rapper, singer and producer; known for "You Want Me" feat. Sadie Ama (UK No. 22, 2016), "Didn't Know" (No. 14, 2021), Insomnia club night and Sleepin Is Cheatin promotions company.
Tom-Yum-Goong
Tom-Yum-Goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง, The Protector) is a 2005 Thai martial arts film by Prachya Pinkaew starring Tony Jaa as Kham, who fights a Sydney crime syndicate to recover his stolen elephants; Thailand's top-grossing film of 2005.
Tom's Diner
"Tom's Diner" is Suzanne Vega's 1981 a cappella song about Tom's Restaurant, Broadway and 112th Street, New York. DNA's unauthorized 1990 remix hit number 5 on Billboard, and the a cappella original served as Karlheinz Brandenburg's benchmark for MP3 compression, earning Vega the nickname Mother of the MP3.
Tom's Restaurant
Tom's Restaurant is a family-run Greek-American diner at 2880 Broadway in Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the exterior of Monk's Café on Seinfeld and Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner."
Toma Zdravković
Toma Zdravković (Тома Здравковић) was a Serbian folk singer-songwriter, born in 1938, who performed for decades in the kafanas of Yugoslavia and sold over a million records.
Tomas Arana
Tomas Arana (Thomas Clifford Arana), American character actor born 1955 in Auburn, California; trained at American Conservatory Theatre, worked at Lucio Amelio's Naples gallery and Falso Movimento theater; known for Quintus in Gladiator, The Bodyguard, The Hunt for Red October, The New Pope.
Tomás Carrasquilla
Tomás Carrasquilla was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, regarded as the leading figure of Antioquia's literary tradition and best known for La Marquesa de Yolombó.
Tomás de Iriarte
Tomás de Iriarte (1750–1791) was a Spanish Neoclassical fabulist, poet, playwright, and translator, best known for the Fábulas literarias of 1782, original verse fables on literary themes.
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934–2010) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, and Rutgers professor whose novels La novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995) blend history and myth about Peronism.
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist, and translator, regarded as the leading Swedish poet of his generation, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011.