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Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell

Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, aka Theodore Bagwell, is a fictional Prison Break character played by Robert Knepper: a Fox River inmate, white supremacist group leader, and sexual predator in all five seasons.

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel (1924–2015), Austrian-born actor and folk singer, originated Captain von Trapp on Broadway in The Sound of Music and played Tevye over 2,200 times; Newport Folk Festival co-founder, Actors' Equity president, activist.

Théodore Chassériau

Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), French painter and printmaker born in Saint-Domingue; Ingres's pupil who fused Ingres's line with Delacroix's color; known for the Cour des Comptes murals, The Tepidarium, and the 1844 Othello prints.

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), American novelist born in Terre Haute, Indiana; founder of American literary naturalism, author of Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925), censorship battles, late Communist Party membership.

Théodore Géricault

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French Romantic painter of The Raft of the Medusa (Salon 1819, Louvre), self-taught via copying the Louvre, painter of horses, shipwreck drama, and portraits of the insane.

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) was an American poet and professor whose central subject was his childhood in his father's Michigan greenhouse; "The Waking" is his best-known poem.

Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon (Edward Hamilton Waldo, 1918–1985), American science fiction writer of the Golden Age; author of More Than Human, "Slow Sculpture" (Hugo and Nebula), and Star Trek's "Amok Time."

Theodore Wilson

Theodore (Teddy) Wilson, born Theodore Rosevelt Wilson (1943–1991), American character actor of 1970s sitcoms: Earl Chambers on That's My Mama, Sweet Daddy Williams on Good Times, Phil Wheeler on The Sanford Arms; died of a stroke at 47.

Theodort

Theodort is the stage name of Théodore Imad Levisse, a French singer and rapper from Lille who left a decade-long YouTube career for afrobeats and amapiano.

Theognis of Megara

Theognis of Megara (Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς) was an archaic Greek elegiac poet whose name is attached to the Theognidea, a collection of about 1,389 lines of moral verse.

Theon Greyjoy

Theon Greyjoy is a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Alfie Allen; heir to Balon Greyjoy, Eddard Stark's ward, tortured into "Reek" by Ramsay Bolton.

Theophanes the Cretan

Theophanes the Cretan (Theophanis Strelitzas) was a Greek monk and Cretan School painter, born in Heraklion, whose frescoes at Meteora and Mount Athos shaped post-Byzantine painting.

Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier (Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier; 1811–1872) was a French poet, novelist, and leading art critic known for art for art's sake, Mademoiselle de Maupin, and Émaux et Camées.

Theory of a Deadman

Theory of a Deadman (also shortened to Theory) is a Canadian rock band from Delta, British Columbia, formed in 2001, signed by Chad Kroeger to 604 Records, known for post-grunge hits like Bad Girlfriend and the 2026 EP Part 1: Funeral Songs.

Theory of Prose

Theory of Prose (О теории прозы) is a 1925 collection of essays by the Russian literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky that sets out the Russian Formalist school's principles.

Theory of three styles

The theory of three styles (теория трёх стилей) is the doctrine dividing a literary language into high, middle, and low registers, most influentially stated by Lomonosov in 1758.

Theosophy and visual arts

Theosophy and visual arts: influence of the 1875 Blavatsky-Olcott esoteric movement on modern painting, shaping Symbolism and abstraction through Kandinsky, Mondrian, Hilma af Klint, Kupka, Thought-Forms color symbolism, and Ringbom's scholarship.

Theotokos of the Sign

The Theotokos of the Sign, or Znamenie, is an Eastern Orthodox icon type showing the Virgin with hands raised and the Christ child in a medallion on her chest.

Therapy at the Club

Therapy at the Club, also styled THERAPY AT THE CLUB, is the second studio album by British R&B trio FLO, released 7 August 2026 via Island/EMI; 16 tracks, 46 minutes, UK Albums Chart peak number 5, club-as-therapy concept.

Therapy?

Therapy? (question mark silent) is a Northern Irish alternative metal/noise rock band formed in Larne in 1989 by Andy Cairns and Fyfe Ewing. Known for Troublegum (1994), sixteen studio albums, and current lineup Cairns, McKeegan, Cooper on Marshall Records.

There Are Rivers in the Sky

There Are Rivers in the Sky is Elif Shafak's 2024 novel (Knopf/Viking, 464 pages) linking Ashurbanipal's Nineveh, Victorian London, and the present via a single raindrop, the Tigris, the Thames, and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

There Comes Papa

There Comes Papa is an 1893 oil painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma, depicting a Malabar lady gesturing to her young son the arrival of his father.

There Is a Country in the World

There Is a Country in the World (Hay un país en el mundo) is a long poem by Dominican poet Pedro Mir, first published in Havana in 1949.

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out: Smiths song by Morrissey and Johnny Marr, penultimate track on The Queen Is Dead (1986); UK No. 25 single in 1992, (500) Days of Summer feature.

There Is No Antimemetics Division

There Is No Antimemetics Division is a science-fiction horror novel by qntm (Sam Hughes). Serialized on the SCP wiki from 2015, self-published 2020, rewritten for Ballantine/Del Rey in November 2025; its Antimemetics Division fights memory-erasing entities.

There Is Nothing Left to Lose

There Is Nothing Left to Lose is Foo Fighters' third album, released November 2, 1999 on Roswell/RCA. Recorded as a trio (Grohl, Mendel, Hawkins) without a label in Grohl's Virginia basement with Adam Kasper, it is Grohl's favorite band album.

There once was a man from Nantucket

"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the famous opening line of English bawdy limericks, chosen because Nantucket rhymes with a vulgar word; early print dates conflict (1879 The Pearl, 1902), with a documented 1924 four-verse newspaper contest and a well-known clean bucket version.

There She Goes (The La's song)

There She Goes (The La's song): 1988 Lee Mavers song by Liverpool band The La's, reissued 1990 reaching UK number 13; famous for the heroin-interpretation debate and the 1999 Sixpence None the Richer cover.

There She Goes (TV series)

There She Goes is a British BBC comedy-drama (2018–2023) by Shaun Pye and Sarah Crawford, starring David Tennant and Jessica Hynes as parents of non-verbal Rosie, who has a rare chromosomal disorder; two series plus a 2023 special.

There She Is!! (떳다 그녀!!)

There She Is!! (떳다 그녀!!, Tteotda Keunyeo!!) is a five-part South Korean Flash web animation by SamBakZa (2003-2008) about the rabbit Doki and cat Nabi, an Anima Mundi-winning, Newgrounds record-setting series with a 2020 continuation.