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Thomas H. McInnerney

Thomas H. McInnerney (1867–1952) was an American businessman from Dubuque, Iowa, who co-founded National Dairy Products Corporation with Edward E. Rieck in 1923, the predecessor of Kraft, Inc., and led it as president until 1941.

Thomas H. Milhorat

Thomas H. Milhorat (1936–2025) was an American neurosurgeon who overturned the choroid plexus model of cerebrospinal fluid production and founded the Chiari Institute in 2001.

Thomas H. Morgan

Thomas H. Morgan, or Thomas Hunt Morgan, was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through fruit fly experiments, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas H. Pigford

Thomas H. Pigford was an American nuclear engineer and founding chair of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, coauthor of the seminal textbook Nuclear Chemical Engineering.

Thomas H. Rice

Thomas H. Rice is an American health economist, a distinguished research professor at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, and a National Academy of Medicine member elected in 2006.

Thomas H. Vonder Haar

Thomas H. Vonder Haar, an American satellite meteorologist, analyzed the first satellite measurements of Earth's radiation budget in the 1960s and led NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Experiment.

Thomas H. Weller

Thomas H. Weller, also known as Thomas Huckle Weller, was an American virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing poliovirus in tissue culture.

Thomas Hagan

Thomas Hagan, aka Talmadge Hayer and Mujahid Abdul Halim, convicted 1966 of Malcolm X's murder, caught at the scene, confessed, named four accomplices in 1977 affidavits, paroled 2010 after 44 years.

Thomas Hakon Grönwall

Thomas Hakon Grönwall, born Hakon Tomi Grönwall, was a Swedish-born American mathematician (1877–1932) known for the 1919 Grönwall inequality, a summability method for series, and work on Fourier series.

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Thomas Hall (Ohio politician)

Thomas Hall is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 46th district, in his third term as committee chair.

Thomas Hansen Kingo

Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703) was a Danish hymn writer, poet, and Lutheran bishop of Odense, regarded as Denmark's greatest baroque poet and main figure of Danish Lutheran hymnody.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet, author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure, set in fictional Wessex; after 1895 he wrote nearly a thousand poems.

Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the semi-fictional region of south-west England, centered on Dorset, that Hardy created from Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) onward, reviving the medieval West Saxon name; it includes Casterbridge (Dorchester), Egdon Heath, and the 1895 Wessex map.

Thomas Harriot

Thomas Harriot, also spelled Hariot, was an English mathematician and astronomer (c. 1560–1621) who drew the Moon telescopically before Galileo and found the law of refraction.

Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris (born c. 1940) is the American novelist who created Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon (1981); author of Black Sunday, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising, and Cari Mora, with over 50 million copies sold.

Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), American Regionalist painter and muralist from Neosho, Missouri; led Regionalism with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, painted America Today and the Missouri Capitol murals, taught Pollock, and was the first artist on Time's cover.

Thomas Hart Benton (politician)

Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858), 'Old Bullion,' Missouri's first US senator (1821–1851), Jacksonian leader, author of the expunging resolution, Oregon and transcontinental railroad advocate, and author of Thirty Years' View.

Thomas Hartland-Mackie

Thomas Hartland-Mackie is a third-generation family-business executive who led City Electric Supply, a Dallas-based electrical distributor, as CEO from 2008 to 2023, taking over at age 20.

Thomas Hartman

Thomas Hartman is a theoretical physicist working on quantum gravity, quantum field theory, and holography, known for the black hole information paradox and a 2019 PECASE award.

Thomas Hartwig

Thomas Hartwig is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded King, the games company behind Candy Crush Saga, in 2003 and was its chief technology officer through its 2014 IPO.

Thomas Haug

Thomas Bryn Haug (1927–2023) was a Norwegian-born Swedish electrical engineer who chaired the committees behind the NMT and GSM mobile standards, winning the 2013 Draper Prize.

Thomas Haugh

Thomas Haugh, Florida Gators senior forward (6-9, 215) from New Oxford, Pa.; 2025 national champion sixth man, 2026 All-American averaging 17.1 points, returned for 2026-27 as a 2027 NBA draft prospect.

Thomas Head Raddall

Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) was a Canadian writer of historical fiction and popular history about Nova Scotia, winning the Governor General's Award three times, twice for non-fiction.

Thomas Hearns

Thomas "Hitman" Hearns (born 1958) is an American boxer, Detroit Kronk Gym product under Emanuel Steward, first to win world titles in five weight divisions, 61-5-1 with 48 KOs, famed for fights with Leonard, Hagler, and Duran, Hall of Fame 2012.

Thomas Heine

Thomas Heine is a German theoretical and computational chemist who has held the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at TU Dresden since 2018, predicting 2D materials by calculation.

Thomas Helleday

Thomas Helleday is a Swedish chemical biologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet whose 2005 discovery that PARP inhibitors kill BRCA2-deficient tumors led to approved cancer drugs.

Thomas Henning

Thomas Henning (born 1956 in Jena) is a German astrophysicist who studies star and planet formation, directing the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg from 2001 to 2024.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist and comparative anatomist, called "Darwin's bulldog" for defending Darwin's theory of evolution, who coined the word "agnostic".

Thomas Henry Ismay

Thomas Henry Ismay (1837–1899) was an English shipowner who bought the bankrupt White Star Line's name in 1867 and built it into a leading transatlantic steamship line.