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Thomas Dozol

Thomas Dozol (born 1975, Fort-de-France, Martinique) is a French photographer and artist based in New York and Berlin, known for intimate post-shower portrait series like I'll Be Your Mirror and for multiple-exposure works layering an entire film roll into one print.

Thomas Dutronc

Thomas Dutronc, born in Paris in 1973, is a French singer-guitarist, son of Jacques Dutronc and Françoise Hardy, who blends manouche jazz with French chanson.

Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, and influential teacher who worked in Philadelphia, known for uncompromising portraits, rowing scenes, and The Gross Clinic.

Thomas Erikson

Thomas Erikson (born 1965) is a Swedish behaviourist and author of the Surrounded by series, led by Surrounded by Idiots (Omgiven av idioter, 2014), which sorts behavior into four DISC-based colors; over 12 million copies sold, widely criticized as pseudoscience.

Thomas F. Wilson

Thomas F. Wilson (Thomas Francis Wilson Jr.), born 1959 in Philadelphia, is the American actor who played Biff, Griff, and Buford Tannen in Back to the Future; also known for Freaks and Geeks, SpongeBob voice roles, stand-up, and painting.

Thomas Fersen

Thomas Fersen is a French singer-songwriter born in Paris in 1963 whose story-driven, wordplay-rich songs have held a distinctive place in chanson française since his 1993 debut.

Thomas Flynn (British actor)

Thomas Flynn (born 1993, Oldham, England) is a British actor known as Prince Phillip in Red, White & Royal Blue and roles in Bridgerton, Masters of the Air, and Run Away.

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), English portrait and landscape painter of Sudbury, Bath, and London; rival of Reynolds, favorite of George III, Royal Academy founder, experimental draftsman who fixed drawings in skim milk.

Thomas Gibson

Thomas Ellis Gibson (born 1962, Charleston, SC) is an American actor known for Dr. Daniel Nyland in Chicago Hope, Greg Montgomery in Dharma & Greg, and Aaron Hotchner in Criminal Minds, from which he was fired in 2016.

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (1716–1771), English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and Cambridge professor of modern history; author of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), declined the 1757 laureateship, published little, second only to Pope among eighteenth-century English poets.

Thomas H. Ince

Thomas H. Ince (Thomas Harper Ince, 1882 or 1880–1924) was an American silent-film producer and director, builder of Inceville and originator of the Hollywood producer system with continuity scripts; died aboard Hearst's yacht.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet, author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure, set in fictional Wessex; after 1895 he wrote nearly a thousand poems.

Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the semi-fictional region of south-west England, centered on Dorset, that Hardy created from Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) onward, reviving the medieval West Saxon name; it includes Casterbridge (Dorchester), Egdon Heath, and the 1895 Wessex map.

Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris (born c. 1940) is the American novelist who created Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon (1981); author of Black Sunday, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising, and Cari Mora, with over 50 million copies sold.

Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), American Regionalist painter and muralist from Neosho, Missouri; led Regionalism with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, painted America Today and the Missouri Capitol murals, taught Pollock, and was the first artist on Time's cover.

Thomas Head Raddall

Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) was a Canadian writer of historical fiction and popular history about Nova Scotia, winning the Governor General's Award three times, twice for non-fiction.

Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet and humorist whose protest poem "The Song of the Shirt" became one of the best-known poems of the nineteenth century.

Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962) is an American actor, writer, and martial artist best known as Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Netflix's Cobra Kai seasons 4-6, after retiring post-2007's The Kidnapping.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Thomas Ian Nicholas (Thomas Nicholas), American actor born 1980 in Las Vegas; child star of Rookie of the Year and A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Kevin Myers in American Pie, later producer of Adverse and musician.

Thomas Jane

Thomas Jane is an American actor from Baltimore known as Frank Castle in The Punisher (2004), Joe Miller in The Expanse, and Ray Drecker in Hung; he also directed Dark Country and founded RAW Studios.

Thomas Jolly

Thomas Jolly is a French theater director and actor, born in Rouen in 1982, known for marathon Shakespeare stagings, a 2022 Starmania revival, and directing the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies.

Thomas Kail

Thomas Kail (Tommy Kail, born 1977, Alexandria, Virginia) is the American director of the musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, the 2016 Tony winner, the Disney+ Hamilton film, Fosse/Verdon, Grease Live!, Sweeney Todd, and Disney's live-action Moana.

Thomas Keller

Thomas Keller (born 1955) is an American chef-restaurateur of The French Laundry and Per Se, the first and only American-born chef with multiple three-star Michelin restaurants, 2017 Bocuse d'Or gold team leader, Legion of Honor Chevalier, and author of six cookbooks.

Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally, born in 1935, is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer whose 1982 novel Schindler's Ark won the Booker Prize and inspired Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Schindler's List.

Thomas King

Thomas King (born 1943) is an American-born Canadian novelist, essayist, and broadcaster who has written about Indigenous life in North America; his works include Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and The Inconvenient Indian.

Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012), American "Painter of Light," built a mass-market art empire selling millions of signed reproductions through 350+ galleries while critics rejected his work; died 2012 of accidental overdose.

Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella was an Irish poet, translator, and editor, born in Dublin, whose 1969 translation of The Táin became the standard used in classrooms worldwide.

Thomas Kretschmann

Thomas Kretschmann (born 1962, Dessau) is a German actor, former GDR Olympic-squad swimmer who fled East Germany in the early 1980s, known for The Pianist, Downfall, King Kong, Valkyrie, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, based in Los Angeles.

Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd (1558–1594) was an English playwright who created the Elizabethan revenge tragedy with The Spanish Tragedy, one of the most popular plays of its age and a direct model for Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Thomas Law

Thomas Law (Thomas John Law, born 1992) is an English actor and musician best known as Peter Beale in EastEnders (2006–2010, returning 2023); also DC Eddie Martin in ITV's The Bay and front man of the band East Arbour-19.