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Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) was an English poet from Bristol who wrote mock-medieval verse attributed to the fictional priest Thomas Rowley and died in London at 17.
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose London workshop furnished great Georgian houses like Harewood, and whose 1754 pattern book named an era.
Thomas Chirault
Thomas Chirault (born 1997, Corbie, France) is a French recurve archer, Paris 2024 Olympic men's team silver medalist, French record holder at 692/720 and 598/600 indoor, world number eight, and Taranto 2026 Mediterranean Games double champion.
Thomas Christian Kavanagh
Thomas Christian Kavanagh (1912–1978) was an American civil engineer who led the structural design of the Arecibo radio telescope and was a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Thomas Christiansen
Thomas Christiansen Tarín, Danish-born Spanish football manager and former striker; Barcelona B product, 2 Spain caps, 2002-03 joint Bundesliga top scorer with Bochum; Panama head coach since 2020, 2023 Gold Cup final, 2026 World Cup, renewed to 2030.
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928) was an American geologist who proposed the planetesimal hypothesis, demonstrated multiple Pleistocene glaciations, and set out the method of multiple working hypotheses.
Thomas Clasen
Thomas F. Clasen is an environmental epidemiologist and Rose Salamone Gangarosa Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University, known for trials of water treatment and the HAPIN cookstove study.
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), Scottish-born British admiral and MP, expelled in the 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, who commanded the Chilean, Brazilian, and Greek navies in their wars of liberation and was later restored as a full admiral.
Thomas Codrington
Thomas Codrington (died 1691?) was an English Catholic priest who served as chaplain to James II and tried to introduce a community of secular priests into England.
Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), English-born American landscape painter based in Catskill, New York; founder of the Hudson River School. Known for The Course of Empire, The Oxbow, and The Voyage of Life.
Thomas Connelly (dentist)
Thomas Patrick Connelly, DDS, the "Father of Diamond Dentistry" per Rolling Stone, is a Detroit-born cosmetic dentist in Beverly Hills and NYC known for Post Malone's $1.6M diamond fangs, Lil Yachty's 16-carat teeth, Ye's $850K titanium grillz, and denied 2024 nitrous oxide allegations.
Thomas Cook
Thomas Cook was a British travel company founded in 1841 by Thomas Cook, a Leicester cabinet-maker, which pioneered the inclusive tour and collapsed in 2019.
Thomas Cook Airlines
Thomas Cook Airlines was a British leisure airline based at Manchester Airport that ceased trading in September 2019 with the collapse of Thomas Cook Group.
Thomas Cook Group
Thomas Cook Group was a UK travel group formed in 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel, which collapsed into liquidation in September 2019.
Thomas Coombes
Thomas Coombes (full name Thomas Hamilton Coombes) is a British stage and screen actor from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, known for playing Goz in Save Me and Officer Daniels in Baby Reindeer.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841–1924) was a self-taught American physicist who taught in Tokyo, led the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and issued the 1893 Mendenhall Order fixing US standards on the meter and kilogram.
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury from 1533 to 1556, advised Henry VIII and Edward VI and was the principal architect of the Book of Common Prayer.
Thomas Crapper
Thomas Crapper (1836–1910) was an English plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in Chelsea, London, in 1861, holding nine plumbing patents and supplying the royal household.
Thomas Crawford (sculptor)
Thomas Crawford was an American neoclassical sculptor who spent most of his career in Rome and created more exterior sculpture of the United States Capitol than any other sculptor.
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485–1540), Henry VIII's chief minister from 1532, steered the break with Rome, the Act of Supremacy, and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; executed for treason in 1540 after the Anne of Cleves marriage.
Thomas Crooks
Thomas Matthew Crooks (born 2003) was the 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at the July 13, 2024 Butler rally, firing eight shots from a rooftop before a Secret Service sniper killed him; no motive was identified.
Thomas Culpeper
Thomas Culpeper names several related Englishmen: a Tudor courtier executed with Catherine Howard in 1541; Sir Thomas Culpeper (1578–1662) and his son, writers on usury; and Thomas Culpeper, 2nd baron Culpeper (1635–1689), Virginia governor and Northern Neck proprietor.
Thomas Cup
The Thomas Cup is the world men's team badminton championship, held every two years since 1982 and staged alongside the women's Uber Cup since 1984.
Thomas Curran (psychologist)
Thomas Curran is a psychologist at the London School of Economics known for research showing that perfectionism has risen sharply among college students since 1989.
Thomas Custer
Thomas Ward Custer (1845–1876), American cavalry officer and brother of George Armstrong Custer, first US soldier to receive two Medals of Honor, for capturing flags at Namozine Church and Sayler's Creek in April 1865; died with his brother at Little Bighorn.
Thomas D. Albright
Thomas D. Albright is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, known for research on the neural basis of visual perception and memory.
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a materials scientist who became Professor of Emerging Optoelectronics at the University of Manchester in 2024, working on thin-film transistors, perovskite solar cells, and printed sensors.
Thomas D. Barrow
Thomas D. Barrow (died 2011) was an American petroleum geologist and energy executive who rose from Humble Oil field geologist to Exxon senior vice president and chairman of Kennecott.
Thomas D. Fox
Thomas D. Fox is a molecular geneticist who spent his career at Cornell University studying how nuclear genes control mitochondrial gene expression in budding yeast, and how mitochondrially coded proteins assemble into respiratory chain complexes.
Thomas D. Larson
Thomas D. Larson (1928–2006) was an American civil engineer who co-founded Penn State's transportation institute, served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, and led the Federal Highway Administration from 1989 to 1993.