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Thomas N. James

Thomas N. James (1925–2010) was an American cardiologist and cardiovascular pathologist known for research on the coronary arteries and conduction system, and served as president of the American Heart Association.

Thomas N. Taylor

Thomas N. Taylor (1938–2016) was an American paleobotanist who studied fossil plants and fungi and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.

Thomas N. Williams

Thomas N. Williams, known as Tom Williams, is a British pediatrician and haemoglobinopathy researcher at Imperial College London who studies sickle cell disease and malaria resistance in Kilifi, Kenya.

Thomas Nadalini

Thomas Nadalini (born 2002, Trento) is an Italian short track speed skater with Fiamme Oro; 2026 Olympic mixed relay gold and men's relay bronze medalist, 2020 Youth Olympic relay bronze medalist.

Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel (born 1937) is an American philosopher, NYU Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus, author of "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), The View from Nowhere, and Mind and Cosmos, known for the subjective–objective contrast and the 2008 Rolf Schock and Balzan prizes.

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe, also spelled Nash, was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer and satirist, remembered for his inventive prose and The Unfortunate Traveller (1594), the first picaresque novel in English.

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), German-born American editorial cartoonist at Harper's Weekly 1862-1886, called the Father of the American Cartoon; created the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, Tammany tiger, and modern Santa Claus, and toppled Boss Tweed.

Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman, full name Thomas Montgomery Newman, born 1955 in Los Angeles, is an American composer for film and television known for American Beauty, Finding Nemo, and Skyfall.

Thomas Ng

Thomas Ng is a Singapore-based venture capitalist who co-founded GGV Capital, originally Granite Global Ventures, after founding Venture TDF, and helped finance Alibaba's first institutional round in 1999.

Thomas Nickerson

Thomas Nickerson, also known as Thomas Gibson Nickerson, was an American sailor and author, the Essex cabin boy who wrote a firsthand account of the 1820 sinking, published in 1984.

Thomas Nyström

Thomas Nyström is a Swedish microbiologist and professor at the University of Gothenburg, a professor since 1998, known for showing that damaged proteins are inherited asymmetrically in budding yeast.

Thomas O. Carpenter

Thomas O. Carpenter, also known as Thomas Carpenter, is an American pediatric endocrinologist, Professor Emeritus at Yale, who led the 2018 burosumab trial for X-linked hypophosphatemia.

Thomas O. Paine

Thomas O. Paine (1921–1992) was an American metallurgist and NASA's third Administrator from 1969 to 1970, leading the Apollo missions that first landed humans on the Moon.

Thomas O. Rice

Thomas Owen Rice, born 1960, is a US district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2012, appointed by Barack Obama and chief judge from 2016 to 2020.

Thomas O'Gorman

Thomas O'Gorman (1843–1921) was an American Catholic bishop, educator, and church historian who served as the second Bishop of Sioux Falls from 1896 until his death.

Thomas of Celano

Thomas of Celano (Tommaso da Celano, c. 1185–1190 to c. 1255 or 1260) was an Italian Franciscan friar and the first official biographer of St Francis of Assisi.

Thomas of Metsoph

Thomas of Metsoph was an Armenian cleric and chronicler whose History of Tamerlane and His Successors covers Timur's invasions of Armenia and Georgia from 1386 to 1440.

Thomas of Villanova

Thomas of Villanova (Tomás de Villanueva) was a Spanish Augustinian friar and archbishop of Valencia from 1544 to 1555, known as the "Father of the Poor".

Thomas Ouwejan

Thomas Ouwejan (born 1996, Alkmaar) is a Dutch defender, AZ Alkmaar academy product, who won the 2021/22 2. Bundesliga with Schalke 04, later played for NEC Nijmegen, and joined Machida Zelvia in 2026.

Thomas P. Almy

Thomas P. Almy (died 2002) was an American gastroenterologist who chaired medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and was a former president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Thomas P. Barber

Thomas Patrick Barber (born 1966) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2019, after serving as a Florida county and circuit court judge.

Thomas P. Blunt

Thomas P. Blunt, also known as Thomas Porter Blunt, was a Shrewsbury-born chemist who, with physician Arthur Downes, showed in 1877 that sunlight kills bacteria, work cited in the 1903 Nobel speech.

Thomas P. Cappola

Thomas P. Cappola is an American cardiologist and genetic epidemiologist who studies heart failure; he is Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and received a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Thomas P. Douša

Thomas P. Douša, also published as Thomas P. Dousa, was a Prague-born nephrology researcher at the Mayo Clinic who studied vasopressin's cellular action in the kidney.

Thomas P. Duffy

Thomas P. Duffy (1937–2022) was an American hematologist and medical ethicist who taught at Yale School of Medicine for 38 years and initiated the New England Journal of Medicine's "Clinical Reasoning" essays.

Thomas P. Hackett

Thomas P. Hackett (1928–1988) was an American consultation-liaison psychiatrist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatry service, studied the psychology of heart disease and cancer, and held Harvard's Eben S. Draper Professorship.

Thomas P. Hughes

Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) was an American engineer-turned-historian of technology at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, regarded as the preeminent American historian of technology.

Thomas P. M. Barnett

Thomas P. M. Barnett is an American military geostrategist who developed the Core-Gap thesis and wrote The Pentagon's New Map (2004) while at the U.S. Naval War College.

Thomas P. Neufeld

Thomas P. Neufeld is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Minnesota known for research on TOR signaling, cell growth, and autophagy in Drosophila.

Thomas P. Russell

Thomas P. Russell is an American polymer scientist and Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.