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Thomas D. O'Rourke

Thomas D. O'Rourke is an American geotechnical engineer at Cornell University known for lifeline earthquake engineering, studying how pipelines and buried infrastructure survive earthquakes and ground deformation.

Thomas D. Pollard

Thomas D. Pollard is an American cell biologist at Yale known for discovering myosin-I, capping protein, and Arp2/3 complex, and for explaining how actin filaments move cells.

Thomas D. Rice

Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice (1808–1860), American white blackface actor and playwright, creator of the Jim Crow character and "Jump Jim Crow" song-and-dance act; called the father of American minstrelsy, toured the US and Britain from 1836, and gave Jim Crow its name legacy.

Thomas D. Schroeder

Thomas D. Schroeder (born 1959) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of North Carolina since 2008.

Thomas D'Alesandro III

Thomas D'Alesandro III (1929-2019), called Young Tommy, was mayor of Baltimore 1967-1971, son of mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. and brother of Nancy Pelosi, led the city through the 1968 riots, enacted civil rights and school-building measures, then returned to law practice.

Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.

Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (1903-1987), Baltimore Democratic politician, five-term U.S. Representative from Maryland (1939-1947) and three-term mayor of Baltimore (1947-1959); father of Nancy Pelosi and of mayor Thomas D'Alesandro III.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868), Irish-Canadian journalist, poet, historian, and Father of Canadian Confederation. Young Ireland revolutionary of 1848, later advocate of a Canadian 'new nationality'; assassinated in Ottawa in 1868, the only federal MP killed by political assassination in Canada.

Thomas Dale Stewart

Thomas Dale Stewart (1901–1997) was an American physical anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, regarded as a founder of modern forensic anthropology and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.

Thomas Dambo

Thomas Dambo, born in 1979 in Odense, Denmark, is a Danish recycle artist and designer known for monumental troll sculptures built from discarded wood in 19 countries.

Thomas de Lemos

Tomás de Lemos (c. 1545–1629) was a Spanish Dominican theologian who defended efficacious grace in 47 public disputations before Popes Clement VIII and Paul V.

Thomás de Martis

Thomás de Martis (Thomás de Martis de la Rosa), Argentine centre-forward born 2008 in Mar del Plata; Lanús academy product, Argentina U17 scorer, joined Parma on loan in August 2026.

Thomas De Quincey

Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English Romantic essayist, author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), the first autobiographical account of drug addiction; also wrote Recollections of the Lake Poets and Suspiria de Profundis.

Thomas Dekker (actor)

Thomas Dekker (actor), born 1987 in Las Vegas, is an American actor and musician known for John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Zach in Heroes, Adam Conant in The Secret Circle, and Littlefoot voice work; distinct from the Dutch cyclist and the Elizabethan dramatist of the same name.

Thomas Delaney

Thomas Delaney, full name Thomas Joseph Delaney, is a Danish midfielder for F.C. Copenhagen who won 81 caps and scored 8 goals for Denmark from 2013 to 2024.

Thomas Delworth

Thomas L. Delworth is an American climate scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, known for developing its CM2 and SPEAR climate models.

Thomas DeSimone

Thomas "Two-Gun Tommy" DeSimone, Thomas Anthony or Thomas James DeSimone, was a Lucchese crime family associate of New York, tied to the 1978 Lufthansa heist and the Billy Batts murder, who disappeared in January 1979 and inspired Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas.

Thomas Dever

Thomas E. Dever is an American biochemist who has headed the Section on Protein Biosynthesis at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, since 1994, studying translation initiation factors eIF2 and eIF5B.

Thomas Devereaux

Thomas Peter Devereaux is an American condensed-matter physicist and professor at Stanford and SLAC, known for simulations of the Hubbard model applied to cuprate superconductors.

Thomas DeWitt Talmage

Thomas DeWitt Talmage (1832–1902) was an American Presbyterian preacher and celebrated pulpit orator whose Brooklyn Tabernacle sermons were syndicated weekly to as many as 3,500 newspapers, reaching millions.

Thomas Dietz (environmental social scientist)

Thomas Dietz is an American environmental social scientist and Michigan State University professor known for the STIRPAT model of environmental stress and for work on governing shared resources.

Thomas Doherty (actor)

Thomas Doherty is a Scottish actor and singer, born 1995 in Edinburgh, known for Disney's The Lodge and as Harry Hook in Descendants 2 and 3, and as Max Wolfe in HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot; later work includes The Invitation, Dandelion, and Little Shop of Horrors.

Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby (Thomas Morgan Robertson) is an English synth-pop musician behind "She Blinded Me with Science" and The Golden Age of Wireless, later founder of Beatnik ringtone technology and Johns Hopkins Homewood Professor of the Arts.

Thomas Doll

Thomas Doll (born 1966, Malchin) is a German football manager and former attacking midfielder; East German and German international, Euro 1992 runner-up, coach of Hamburger SV, Borussia Dortmund, Ferencvaros, and Persija Jakarta.

Thomas Dörner

Thomas Dörner is a German rheumatologist and professor at Charité Berlin and the German Rheumatism Research Centre, known for research on B cells and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus.

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 du Toit

Thomas du Toit (born 1995, Cape Town), nicknamed The Tank, is a South African Springbok prop and 2019 Rugby World Cup winner who played for the Sharks, then Bath from 2023, winning the 2025 Premiership and Challenge Cup double before rejoining the Sharks for 2026/27.

Thomas Dunne (geomorphologist)

Thomas Dunne, born 1943, is a geomorphologist and hydrologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, known for saturation overland flow and the textbook Water in Environmental Planning.

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 E. Adrian

Thomas E. Adrian is a physiologist and gastrointestinal cancer researcher, a professor at MBRU in Dubai since 2018, known for work on the pancreatic polypeptide family of gut peptides.

Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt

Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt is an inorganic chemist known for work on the heaviest elements, from plutonium through einsteinium, including the first single-crystal structure of a berkelium compound.