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Thomas Andrews

Thomas Andrews was chief naval architect and, from 1907, managing director of Harland & Wolff in Belfast, the shipyard that built Titanic, on which he died in 1912.

Oct 22, 2026

Thomas Annan (1829–1887) was a Scottish photographer and a pioneer of documentary photography, best known for The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, photographs of the city's slums made between 1868 and 1871 before their demolition.

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274), Italian Dominican friar and scholastic philosopher-theologian, author of the Summa theologiae and Summa contra gentiles, five ways to prove God, natural law theory; died 1274 at Fossanova, canonized 1323.

Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) was an Anglican clergyman and educational reformer who was headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, making it a model for reforming British schools.

Oct 21, 2026

Thomas Arnoldsen

Thomas Sommer Arnoldsen (born 2002, Skanderborg) is a Danish handball centre back for Aalborg Håndbold; Olympic, world, and European champion with Denmark, unbeaten in 33 caps, CL top scorer 99 goals in 2025/26.

Sep 23, 2026

Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally

Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally (Thomas Arthur de Lally-Tollendal, 1702–1766) was a French general of Irish descent who lost Pondicherry in 1761 and was beheaded for treason in 1766.

Oct 22, 2026

Thomas Artsruni

Thomas Artsruni, known in Armenian as T'ovma Arcruni, was a late 9th-century Armenian historian and vardapet from the Artsruni princely house, best known for his History of the House of the Artsrunik'.

Thomas Arundel

Thomas Arundel (1353–1414) was an English prelate, Archbishop of Canterbury, who helped depose Richard II and crown Henry IV in 1399, then led the church's campaign against Lollardy.

Thomas Ashby

Thomas Ashby (died 1544) was an English layman and gentleman, possibly a former priest, executed at Tyburn for refusing to acknowledge King Henry VIII's spiritual supremacy over the Church.

Thomas Ashe

Thomas Ashe (Tomás Ághas, 1885–1917), Irish republican, Kerry-born teacher, and commandant of the Fingal battalion, led the Battle of Ashbourne in the 1916 Easter Rising and died in 1917 after force feeding on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail.

Thomas B. Casale

Thomas B. Casale is an American allergist and immunologist whose trials established omalizumab for allergic asthma and chronic urticaria; he led the AAAAI from 2007 to 2008.

Thomas B. Deen

Thomas B. Deen (Thomas Blackburn Deen) is an American civil engineer and transportation planner, Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board from 1980 to 1994.

Thomas B. Fitzpatrick

Thomas B. Fitzpatrick (1919–2003) was an American dermatologist who led dermatology at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital from 1959, discovered the melanosome, developed PUVA photochemotherapy, and created the Fitzpatrick skin phototype scale.

Thomas B. Friedman

Thomas B. Friedman is an American human geneticist who has identified many genes causing hereditary deafness and blindness, including PCDH15, and leads a genetics laboratory at the NIH.

Sep 20, 2026

Thomas B. Kornberg

Thomas B. Kornberg is an American developmental geneticist and professor emeritus at UCSF who discovered E. coli DNA polymerases as a student and later cytonemes in Drosophila.

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, born 1951, is a British mathematical biologist who proposed the disposable soma theory of aging in 1977 and is Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University.

Thomas B. Nutman

Thomas B. Nutman is a physician-scientist at the NIH Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases who studies immune responses to parasitic worms and directs field research in India and Mali.

Thomas B. Rauchfuss

Thomas B. Rauchfuss (born 1949) is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for synthetic models of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase active site and the 2014 Nyholm Medal.

Thomas B. Sheridan

Thomas B. Sheridan is an MIT professor emeritus, engineer, and applied psychologist known for defining supervisory control, how people direct computers and automated machines rather than operate them continuously.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay: British Whig historian, essayist, poet, and politician; author of History of England (1848-55) and the 1835 Minute on Indian Education that made English the language of government education in India.

Thomas Bach

Thomas Bach, German former Olympic fencing champion, served as ninth IOC President from 2013 to 2025, launching Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms and overseeing the Tokyo 2020 postponement before handing over to Kirsty Coventry.

Thomas Bakócz

Thomas Bakócz was a Hungarian cardinal and statesman, born around 1442 to a wheelwright serf, who nearly became pope in 1513 and led the 1514 crusade that sparked the Dózsa revolt.

Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter (born 1975, Paris) is a French musician, DJ, and composer, co-founder of Daft Punk (1993–2021), creator of the Roulé label and Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You", and later a composer of orchestral ballet scores including Mythologies.

Oct 22, 2026

Thomas Banks

Thomas Banks (1735–1805) was an English neoclassical sculptor, remembered for poetic funerary monuments such as the Penelope Boothby monument and the first war monument erected in St Paul's Cathedral.

Thomas Barbour

Thomas Barbour (1884–1946) was an American herpetologist and zoologist who directed Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1927 to 1946, specializing in West Indian reptiles and amphibians.

Thomas Barclay (economic writer)

Thomas Barclay (1853–1941) was a British economic writer, international lawyer, and Liberal politician based in Paris, knighted in 1904 and twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thomas Bartholomew Scannell

Thomas Bartholomew Scannell (1854–1917) was a British Catholic priest and theological writer, co-author with Joseph Wilhelm of A Manual of Catholic Theology, the English adaptation of Scheeben's Dogmatik.

Thomas Bartlett Whitaker

Thomas Bartlett "Bart" Whitaker (born 1979) is a Texas prisoner serving life without parole for conspiring in the 2003 murders of his mother and brother; his death sentence was commuted by Governor Abbott in February 2018, and he founded the prison-writing site Minutes Before Six.

Thomas Bayes

The Reverend Thomas Bayes (c. 1701–1761) was an English Presbyterian minister and mathematician whose posthumously published essay on probability gave its name to Bayes' theorem and Bayesian statistics.