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Thomas Herring

Thomas Herring (1693–1757) was an Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1747 until his death, after serving as Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of York.

Sep 19, 2026

Thomas Herrmann

Thomas Herrmann is a German engineer who led ultrasonic welding firm Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik as CEO from 2007 to 2026, winning EY's 2021 Entrepreneur Of The Year award.

Oct 15, 2026

Thomas Hill Energy Center

The Thomas Hill Energy Center is a coal-fired power station in Clifton Hill, Missouri, owned by Associated Electric Cooperative, with three units built between 1966 and 1982.

Thomas Hinman Moorer

Thomas Hinman Moorer was an American naval aviator and admiral who served as the 18th Chief of Naval Operations and the seventh Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 1982, Munich), German midfielder nicknamed Der Hammer; 52 Germany caps, 2007 Bundesliga title with Stuttgart; first German footballer to come out as gay (2014); later VfB Stuttgart CEO.

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher of Malmesbury, author of Leviathan (1651); founder of social contract theory arguing that rational persons escape a warlike state of nature by submitting to an absolute sovereign.

Thomas Homan

Thomas Douglas Homan is an American immigration-enforcement official, ICE acting director 2017-2018 and Presidential Rank Award recipient under Obama, now Assistant to the President and Border Czar in Trump's second administration.

Oct 22, 2026

Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (1799–1845) was an English poet and humorist whose protest poem "The Song of the Shirt" became one of the best-known poems of the nineteenth century.

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443–1524), also Earl of Surrey, English magnate and soldier; won Flodden 1513 killing James IV, served as Lord High Treasurer 1501–1522, grandfather of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473–1554), English magnate, soldier, and uncle of queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard; lord high treasurer, imprisoned 1546, restored by Mary I.

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1536-1572), premier Elizabethan peer and earl marshal, executed on Tower Hill 2 June 1572 for treason after the Mary, Queen of Scots marriage scheme and the Ridolfi Plot.

Thomas Hudson (geneticist)

Thomas J. Hudson is a Canadian genome scientist known for the first physical maps of the human genome, the HapMap Project, and founding the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

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

Thomas Hussey

Thomas Hussey (1746–1803) was an Irish Catholic priest and diplomat who became first president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, in 1795 and bishop of Waterford and Lismore, remembered for a controversial 1797 pastoral letter.

Thomas I

Thomas I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 607 to 610, a former sakellarios of Hagia Sophia commemorated by the Orthodox Church on 21 March.

Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962) is an American actor, writer, and martial artist best known as Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Netflix's Cobra Kai seasons 4-6, after retiring post-2007's The Kidnapping.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Thomas Ian Nicholas (Thomas Nicholas), American actor born 1980 in Las Vegas; child star of Rookie of the Year and A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Kevin Myers in American Pie, later producer of Adverse and musician.

Thomas II

Thomas II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 667 to 669, formerly a deacon of Hagia Sophia, remembered for a synodikon to Pope Vitalian found free of Monothelete teaching.

Thomas J. Ahrens

Thomas J. Ahrens (1936–2010) was a German-born American geophysicist at Caltech who pioneered shock-wave experiments on minerals at planetary pressures, studied impact mechanics, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Sep 27, 2026

Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr.

Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., born 1939, is an American former judge of the United States Court of International Trade, appointed by President Reagan in 1985.

Thomas J. Braciale

Thomas J. Braciale (1946–2023) was an American immunologist and physician-scientist, founding director of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research at the University of Virginia.

Thomas J. Coates

Thomas J. Coates is an American HIV/AIDS prevention researcher at UCLA who spent 21 years at UCSF, co-founded its Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and led landmark trials of HIV voluntary counseling and testing in Africa.

Thomas J. Crowley

Thomas J. Crowley (1948–2014) was an American paleoclimatologist who reconstructed and modeled Earth's past climates, held chairs at Duke University and the University of Edinburgh, and wrote the 1991 textbook Paleoclimatology.

Thomas J. Eccles

Thomas J. Eccles is a retired US Navy rear admiral and naval engineer who served as Chief Engineer of the Naval Sea Systems Command until 2013.

Thomas J. Engibous

Thomas J. Engibous is an American electrical engineer who served as president, CEO, and chairman of Texas Instruments from 1996 to 2008, refocusing it on semiconductors.

Thomas J. Flotte

Thomas J. Flotte is an American dermatopathologist and researcher, a professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who treats and studies melanoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Thomas J. Hanratty

Thomas J. Hanratty (1926–2016) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studied wall turbulence and gas-liquid flows and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Thomas J. Hayes III

Thomas J. Hayes III (1914–2004) was an American civil engineer and Army major general who directed ICBM base construction and led Army support of NASA's launch facilities.