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Thomas Lance
Thomas Glasson Lance (1891–1976), British track cyclist with Polytechnic C.C.; won tandem sprint gold with Harry Ryan at Antwerp 1920, also rode the sprint, later a Brighton bookmaker.
Thomas Lange
Thomas Lange (born 1964, Eisleben) is a German rower and plastic surgeon, Olympic single sculls champion 1988 for East Germany and 1992 for reunified Germany, bronze 1996, multiple world champion, Thomas Keller Medal 1997.
Thomas Langer
Thomas Langer is a German biochemist who studies mitochondrial proteases and quality control; he directs the Department of Mitochondrial Proteostasis at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne.
Thomas Langlois Lefroy
Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), Irish judge and Tory MP for Dublin University, lord chief justice of Ireland 1852–66, sentenced John Mitchel in 1848, and Jane Austen's youthful flirtation of January 1796.
Thomas Lauritsen
Thomas Lauritsen (1915–1973) was a Danish-born American nuclear physicist and Caltech professor known for the Energy Levels of Light Nuclei compilations, the reference tables for nuclei up to neon.
Thomas Laux
Thomas Laux is a German plant biologist who holds the chair of Developmental Biology and Biotechnology of Plants at the University of Freiburg and studies stem cell regulation in Arabidopsis.
Thomas Law
Thomas Law (Thomas John Law, born 1992) is an English actor and musician best known as Peter Beale in EastEnders (2006–2010, returning 2023); also DC Eddie Martin in ITV's The Bay and front man of the band East Arbour-19.
Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was an English portrait painter who dominated British portraiture in the early nineteenth century and served as President of the Royal Academy.
Thomas Lectka
Thomas Lectka is an American organic chemist, the Jean and Norman Scowe Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for asymmetric ketene chemistry and the fluoronium ion.
Thomas Lecuit
Thomas Lecuit is a French developmental biologist who studies tissue morphogenesis in the fruit fly and has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2016.
Thomas Lehner
Thomas Lehner is a British dental immunologist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London who established the world's first oral immunology department at Guy's Hospital in 1970.
Thomas Lemar
Thomas Lemar (born 1995, Baie-Mahault) is a French left-footed midfielder; 2018 World Cup winner, Monaco 2016/17 Ligue 1 champion, Atlético Madrid 2020/21 LaLiga winner, now on loan at Elche.
Thomas Lemieux
Thomas Lemieux is a Canadian labor economist, professor at the University of British Columbia since 1999, known for research on unions, wage inequality, minimum wages, and regression discontinuity methods.
Thomas Lennon
Thomas Patrick Lennon (born 1970, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter, a member of The State, co-creator and star of Reno 911! as Lt. Jim Dangle, co-writer with Robert Ben Garant of the Night at the Museum films, and Felix Unger in CBS's The Odd Couple reboot.
Thomas Leonard Martin
Thomas Leonard Martin is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech known for research in electronic textiles and wearable computing, and a 2005 PECASE recipient.
Thomas Lewis (cardiologist)
Sir Thomas Lewis (1881–1945) was a Welsh-born British cardiologist who brought the electrocardiograph to the bedside, advanced the study of atrial fibrillation, and founded the journal Heart.
Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti (born 1953, Detroit) is an American weird-fiction and supernatural horror writer, author of Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, Teatro Grottesco, and The Conspiracy Against the Human Race; a philosophical pessimist and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner.
Thomas Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln (1778–1851), father of Abraham Lincoln, was a frontier carpenter, cabinetmaker, and farmer who lost three Kentucky farms to defective titles, settled in Indiana and Coles County, Illinois, and has been reassessed by historians as neither indolent nor ignorant.
Thomas Lincoln Casey, Sr.
Thomas Lincoln Casey, Sr. (1831–1896) was an American army engineer and West Point graduate who completed the Washington Monument and rose to Brigadier General as Chief of Engineers.
Thomas Lipton
Thomas Lipton (1848–1931) was a Glasgow grocer who created the global Lipton tea brand from Ceylon plantations and challenged five times for the America's Cup.
Thomas Louis Marzetta
Thomas Louis Marzetta is an American electrical engineer, director of NYU WIRELESS, best known as the originator of massive MIMO, for which he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and satirist whose seven satirical novels caricatured Romantic-era figures at dinner tables; his essay The Four Ages of Poetry prompted Shelley's Defence of Poetry.
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is a Congolese militia leader who founded the Union of Congolese Patriots and became the first person convicted by the International Criminal Court.
Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr.
Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr. (1921–2009) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered microwave distance-education networks and was the fourth president of Illinois Institute of Technology from 1974 to 1987.
Thomas M. Bashore
Thomas M. Bashore is an American cardiologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Duke University, known for cardiac catheterization safety, contrast-induced kidney injury, and valvular heart disease.
Thomas M. Coffman
Thomas M. Coffman is an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Duke University, whose mouse studies showed angiotensin II raises blood pressure through the kidney.
Thomas M. Cover
Thomas M. Cover (1938–2012) was an American information theorist and Stanford professor known for his 1972 broadcast channels paper, universal portfolio theory, and the textbook Elements of Information Theory.
Thomas M. Durkin
Thomas M. Durkin, also known as Thomas Michael Durkin, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Illinois since 2012, appointed by Barack Obama.
Thomas M. Gill
Thomas M. Gill is an American geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist at Yale School of Medicine, a leading authority on disability among older persons who directs the Yale Program on Aging.
Thomas M. Hardiman
Thomas M. Hardiman, born Thomas Michael Hardiman in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a Third Circuit appeals judge since 2007, appointed by President George W. Bush.