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Thomas Rew (cricketer)

Thomas Rew (Thomas Henry Sidney Rew, born 2007) is an English right-handed wicketkeeper-batter for Somerset, England Under-19 captain and World Cup finalist, brother of James Rew, later Paarl Royals and England Lions.

Thomas Rhett

Thomas Rhett (Thomas Rhett Akins Jr., born 1990, Valdosta, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter, son of Rhett Akins; Life Changes (2017) hit No. 1 across all genres, with 22 No. 1 singles and diamond-certified Die a Happy Man.

Thomas Riedl

Thomas Riedl is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Electronic Devices at the University of Wuppertal; his group set a 24.0% efficiency record for perovskite–organic tandem solar cells in 2022.

Thomas Robb (Ku Klux Klan)

Thomas Robb (born 1946) is a Christian Identity pastor and National Director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Knights Party), based near Zinc, Arkansas, which he took over from David Duke in the 1980s.

Thomas Robert Giallorenzi

Thomas Robert Giallorenzi is an American wireless-communications engineer and Senior Fellow at L3Harris Technologies who founded products with over $1B in sales and holds 91 US patents.

Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was an English clergyman and political economist, professor at Haileybury, whose 1798 Essay on Population argued that unchecked population grows geometrically while subsistence grows arithmetically.

Thomas Robinson (basketball)

Thomas Robinson (born 1991) is an American forward from Washington, D.C., a Kansas star drafted fifth overall by Sacramento in 2012 who played 313 NBA games and later a 13-country international career.

Thomas Röckmann

Thomas Röckmann (born 1969) is an atmospheric scientist, full professor of atmospheric physics and chemistry at Utrecht University since 2005, known for isotope-based studies of atmospheric methane.

Thomas Roe

Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644), English diplomat: first official ambassador to Mughal emperor Jahangir (1615-18), ambassador to the Ottoman Porte (1621-28), Altmark mediator, Garter chancellor, and Long Parliament MP for Oxford University.

Thomas Rohler

Thomas Röhler, born 1991 in Jena, Germany, is a javelin thrower, 2016 Olympic champion (90.30 m) and 2018 European champion; his 93.90 m personal best from Doha 2017 is the German record.

Thomas Rolfe

Thomas Rolfe (1615–after 1646), only son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, born in Virginia, raised in England, returned 1635, became a colonial lieutenant in 1646, ancestor of the Bolling family.

Thomas Rongen

Thomas Rongen (born 1956, Amsterdam), Dutch-American soccer coach; first MLS Coach of the Year (1996, Tampa Bay Mutiny), 1999 MLS Cup with D.C. United, US U-20 coach, American Samoa coach of Next Goal Wins fame.

Thomas Rösch

Thomas Rösch, born 1958 in Munich, is a German gastroenterologist and professor who directs interdisciplinary endoscopy at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and co-authored a 2019 New England Journal achalasia trial.

Thomas Rothvoss

Thomas Rothvoss is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington known for bin packing algorithms and prize-winning work on the matching polytope.

Thomas Rousseau

Thomas Rousseau (born 1998, Texas) is the American founder and leader of the white nationalist group Patriot Front, which he created in 2017 after leaving Vanguard America following the Unite the Right rally; he has faced repeated arrests and civil judgments.

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff (born 1958) is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for series examining photography's genres, from passport-style portraits to enlarged star images and reworked internet photographs.

Thomas Rupprath

Thomas Rupprath is a German former competitive swimmer and three-time Olympian, best known as a 50 m backstroker of the early 2000s who set eight world records.

Thomas Russell (New Zealand financier)

Thomas Russell was an Auckland lawyer turned financier who founded the Bank of New Zealand in 1861 and led Auckland's business community before age 40.

Thomas S. Adams

Thomas S. Adams (Thomas Sewall Adams, 1873–1933) was an American economist at Yale who helped write Wisconsin's 1911 progressive income tax and created the foreign tax credit.

Thomas S. Edgington

Thomas S. Edgington (1932–2021) was an American immunologist and pathologist at The Scripps Research Institute best known for cloning tissue factor, the protein that initiates blood coagulation.

Thomas S. Huang

Thomas S. Huang (1936–2020) was a computer vision researcher and University of Illinois professor whose work underpins image compression, Google Street View, and face and gesture recognition.

Thomas S. Inui

Thomas S. Inui is an American physician-investigator in general internal medicine and health services research, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1990 and known for relationship-centered care.

Thomas S. Kleeh

Thomas S. Kleeh is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of West Virginia since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Thomas S. Kupper

Thomas S. Kupper is an American dermatologist and immunologist, Chair Emeritus of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for research on skin immunity and tissue-resident memory T cells.

Thomas S. Monson

Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) was an American religious leader who served as the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2008.

Thomas S. Ricketts

Thomas S. Ricketts, also known as Thomas Stuart Ricketts, is an American financier and owner of the Chicago Cubs, which his family bought for $845 million in 2009.

Thomas S. Zilly

Thomas S. Zilly, born 1935, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington since 2004.

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset and Baron Buckhurst (1536–1608), English statesman and poet; co-author of Gorboduc, contributor to A Mirror for Magistrates, Elizabethan ambassador, and lord high treasurer under James I.

Thomas Sadoski

Thomas Sadoski, born 1976 in Connecticut, is an American actor and producer known for Broadway's Reasons to Be Pretty (Tony nomination), Don Keefer on The Newsroom, Life in Pieces, John Wick, and War Child USA activism.

Thomas Saggese

Thomas Saggese (born 2002) is an MLB utility player for the St. Louis Cardinals; drafted 145th overall by Texas in 2020, traded in 2023, 2023 Texas League MVP, MLB debut September 10, 2024.