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Thomas Bromley

Thomas Bromley (1630–1691) was an English mystical writer associated with John Pordage and Jane Lead's Philadelphian Society, author of The Way to the Sabbath of Rest (1655).

Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne was an English physician and author who practiced in Norwich from 1636 and wrote Religio Medici, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), and The Garden of Cyrus.

Thomas Brushfield

Thomas Brushfield (1858–1937) was an English psychiatrist in intellectual disability, remembered for Brushfield spots, the iris sign of Down syndrome, described in his 1924 paper.

Thomas Bryant

Thomas Bryant (born 1997) is an American NBA center-forward, Indiana alum, 2017 second-round pick, 2023 champion with Denver, now a Cleveland Cavaliers backup big.

Thomas Burdyny

Thomas Burdyny, known as Tom Burdyny, is a Canadian scientist in electrochemical CO2 conversion who is an associate professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Thomas Burr Osborne (biochemist)

Thomas Burr Osborne (1859–1929) was an American biochemist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station who crystallized plant seed proteins and, with Lafayette Mendel, helped establish the concepts of essential amino acids and vitamin A.

Thomas Bussard

Thomas Bussard (born 2002) is a Swiss ski mountaineer who won gold in the boys' individual race and mixed relay at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Thomas C. Alexander

Thomas C. Alexander is an American Republican politician who has served as President of the South Carolina Senate since 2021, representing Senate District 1 since 1994.

Thomas C. Bruice

Thomas C. Bruice (1925–2019) was an American bioorganic chemist, a term he coined, known for work on how enzymes accelerate reactions, spent mostly at UC Santa Barbara.

Thomas C. Chalmers

Thomas C. Chalmers, also known as Thomas Chalmers, was an American physician and clinical epidemiologist who pioneered randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis in clinical medicine.

Thomas C. Durant

Thomas C. Durant, or Thomas Clark Durant, was an American financier who as vice president of the Union Pacific controlled building of the first transcontinental railroad.

Thomas C. Joe

Thomas C. Joe was an American social policy analyst in Washington, D.C., who helped develop the federal SSI program and won a 1986 MacArthur Fellowship.

Thomas C. Kaufman

Thomas C. Kaufman is an American developmental geneticist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for defining the Antennapedia gene complex of the fruit fly Drosophila and helping found FlyBase.

Thomas C. Merigan

Thomas C. Merigan, born 1934, is an American physician-scientist and virologist, emeritus professor at Stanford known for introducing interferon therapy and developing antiviral drugs against HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B.

Thomas C. Quinn

Thomas C. Quinn is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who was among the first to identify the AIDS epidemic and HIV in Africa.

Thomas C. Redman

Thomas C. Redman, "the Data Doc," American statistician and data quality pioneer; founded AT&T Bell Labs' Data Quality Lab (1987), leads Data Quality Solutions, defined data quality as "fit for use," author of Data Driven and People and Data.

Thomas C. Schelling

Thomas C. Schelling was an American economist who won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize for game-theory analysis of conflict and cooperation, known for The Strategy of Conflict.

Thomas C. Spencer

Thomas C. Spencer, born 1946, is an American mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study known for rigorous work on phase transitions and Anderson localization.

Thomas C. Südhof

Thomas C. Südhof is a German-born American biochemist at Stanford who identified the calcium sensor for neurotransmitter release and shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas C. Wright

Thomas C. Wright, Jr. is an American gynecological pathologist and Columbia professor emeritus whose trials of HPV testing and vinegar-based screening in South Africa shaped WHO cervical-cancer guidelines.

Thomas Campbell

Thomas (Tom) Campbell, 1898–1971, American middle-distance runner; Yale 880-yard runner, 1918 AAU champion, competed in the 800 m at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; later a Columbia-trained attorney.

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion (1567–1620) was an English poet, composer, and physician who wrote the words and music of his songs and produced influential treatises on poetry and music.

Thomas Capano

Thomas J. Capano, prominent Delaware lawyer and former gubernatorial counsel, convicted in 1999 of murdering his former lover Anne Marie Fahey, Governor Carper's scheduling secretary; case built without a body; death sentence later commuted to life; died in prison 2011.

Thomas Carden

Thomas M. Carden Jr. is a U.S. Army National Guard general, first four-star Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2026), formerly Adjutant General of Georgia and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command.

Thomas Carell

Thomas Carell (born 1966 in Herford, Germany) is a German organic chemist and chemical biologist at LMU Munich, known for DNA repair, epigenetic base modifications, and prebiotically plausible RNA synthesis.

Thomas Carew

Thomas J. Carew, born in 1944, is an American neuroscientist at New York University known for showing that memory in the sea slug Aplysia has distinct short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term phases.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist and historian, author of Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution, and On Heroes; coined 'dismal science' and championed the Great Man theory of history.

Thomas Cartwright

Thomas Cartwright (1534/5–1603) was an English theologian and Puritan leader, deprived of his Cambridge professorship in 1570, who advocated replacing bishops with presbyterian church government.

Thomas Cavalier‐Smith

Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942–2021) was a British biologist who proposed new branches of the tree of life, defined the kingdom Chromista in 1981, and held the evolutionary biology chair at Oxford.

Thomas Cazenave

Thomas Cazenave is a French Renaissance politician elected Mayor of Bordeaux in March 2026, defeating incumbent Pierre Hurmic, after serving as Minister charged with Public Accounts from 2023 to 2024.