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Thomas Beatie

Thomas Beatie, born Tracy LaGondino, is the American transgender man known as the pregnant man who gave birth to three children in Oregon between 2008 and 2010 and won an Arizona appeal recognizing his marriage.

Thomas Becker (biochemist)

Thomas Becker is a German biochemist who studies how mitochondria import and quality-control their proteins, and has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2020.

Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket, also called St Thomas of Canterbury, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in Canterbury Cathedral by knights of Henry II in 1170.

Thomas Bein

Thomas Bein is a German materials chemist who held the Chair of Physical Chemistry and Nanoscience at LMU Munich from 1999, known for molecular sieves and perovskite solar cells.

Thomas Belsham

Thomas Belsham (1750–1829) was an English Unitarian minister and theologian, principal editor of the Improved Version of the New Testament and minister of Essex Street Chapel, London.

Thomas Bennett (chemist)

Thomas D. Bennett, born 1986, is a chemist known for melting metal–organic frameworks into a new family of glasses, and moved to the University of Canterbury in 2024.

Thomas Benzing

Thomas Benzing is a German nephrologist and physician-scientist, chairman of internal medicine at the University of Cologne since 2007, known for work on podocyte biology and glomerular disease.

Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), Austrian novelist and playwright, author of Frost, Korrektur, and Heldenplatz; his final play sparked Austria's 1988 theater scandal and he banned Austrian publication of his works in his will.

Oct 22, 2026

Thomas Bewick

Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) was an English wood engraver in Newcastle upon Tyne who rebuilt wood engraving as a practical technique and set the standard for illustrated natural history books.

Thomas Bieber

Thomas Bieber is a German dermatologist and allergologist, long a professor at the University of Bonn, known for his influential 2008 NEJM review of atopic dermatitis.

Oct 21, 2026

Thomas Bimis

Thomas Bimis (Θωμάς Μπίμης), born 1975 in Athens, Greek diver; with Nikos Siranidis won gold in men's synchronized 3 m springboard at Athens 2004 with 353.34 points, Greece's first gold of those Games and the first Olympic diving medal.

Thomas Binney

Thomas Binney (1798–1874) was an English Congregationalist minister who led London's King's Weigh House Chapel for forty years and wrote the hymn "Eternal Light, eternal light".

Thomas Blake Glover

Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911) was a Scottish merchant who settled in Nagasaki in 1859, armed the clans behind the Meiji Restoration, and later advised Mitsubishi.

Thomas Blankenstein

Thomas Blankenstein is a German cancer immunologist at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin known for humanized mice that yield T-cell receptors for cancer therapy.

Thomas Blanky

Thomas Blanky (1804–1848/51?), British whaling master and ice master of HMS Terror on the 1845 Franklin expedition; veteran of the Lyon, Parry, and Ross Arctic voyages.

Thomas Blumenthal

Thomas Blumenthal is an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for discovering the first eukaryotic operons, in C. elegans.

Thomas Bodenheimer

Thomas Bodenheimer is an American general internist and health services researcher at UC San Francisco known for his New England Journal of Medicine analyses of US health care.

Thomas Boehm (German immunologist)

Thomas Boehm, born in 1956, is a German immunologist who directed the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1998 to 2024.

Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond (1476/7-1539), English courtier and diplomat under Henry VII and Henry VIII, father of Anne Boleyn; envoy to France, Spain, and the Low Countries, Lord Privy Seal from 1530, died at Hever Castle.

Thomas Boller

Thomas Boller (born 1949) is a Swiss plant biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Basel, known for showing that plant chitinases inhibit fungal growth.

Oct 21, 2026

Thomas Bos

Thomas Bos (born 1968, The Hague) is a retired Dutch speed skater, 11th in the 10,000 m at the 1992 Albertville Olympics, who set the 3000 m world record of 3:56.16 in Calgary on 3 April 1992.

Thomas Bourgchier

Thomas Bourgchier, also spelled Bourchier, was an English cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury for 32 years from 1454, who crowned three kings: Edward IV, Richard III, and Henry VII.

Thomas Bowdler

Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English physician and editor of The Family Shakespeare (1818 ten-volume edition; 1807 edition largely by his sister Henrietta), whose name produced the verb bowdlerize.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), Maine Republican and House Speaker 1889–1891 and 1895–1899, called Czar Reed, ended the disappearing quorum and enacted the Reed Rules of 1890, then resigned in 1899 over anti-imperialism.

Thomas Bradford Drew

Thomas Bradford Drew (1902–1985) was an American chemical engineer at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 and known for the Colburn–Drew equations for condensing binary vapor.

Thomas Bradwardine

Thomas Bradwardine was an English theologian and mathematician of Merton College, Oxford, who served briefly as Archbishop of Canterbury before dying of plague in 1349.

Thomas Braun

Thomas Braun (born 1961) is a German physician-scientist who studies muscle and heart development and regeneration at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research.

Thomas Brennan Nolan

Thomas Brennan Nolan was an American economic geologist who spent 68 years with the U.S. Geological Survey, serving as its seventh Director from 1956 to 1965.

Oct 20, 2026

Thomas Briels

Thomas Briels, born 1987 in Wilrijk, Belgium, is a field hockey player, four-time Olympian, Red Lions captain, 2018 world champion, Rio 2016 silver and Tokyo 2020 gold medallist with 359 caps.