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Thomas Stockham

Thomas Stockham (1933–2004) was an American electrical engineer known as the father of digital recording; he founded Soundstream in 1975 and analyzed the Watergate tapes.

Thomas Storch

Thomas Storch is a venture capital investor who serves as Partner and Head of Policy at Eclipse Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm backing startups in the physical economy.

Thomas Strakosha

Thomas Strakosha (born 1995, Athens) is an Albanian goalkeeper at AEK Athens and Albania; formerly Lazio's number one (208 games, six trophies) and Brentford's first Albanian player.

Thomas Strüngmann

Thomas Strüngmann, born 1950, is a German billionaire investor who co-founded the generics maker Hexal with his twin brother Andreas, sold it to Novartis in 2005, and became BioNTech's largest shareholder.

Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth, born 1954 in Geldern, Germany, is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School known for large-format series on city streets, museum visitors, and technology.

Thomas Sully

Thomas Sully was an English-born American portrait painter based in Philadelphia, the leading romantic portraitist in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Thomas Suozzi

Thomas Suozzi (born 1962) is the Democratic U.S. representative for New York's 3rd District, former Glen Cove mayor and Nassau County executive, who regained the seat in the February 2024 special election after George Santos's expulsion.

Thomas Surrey

Thomas Surrey is a cell biologist who studies how the microtubule cytoskeleton self-organizes during cell division, leading a lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.

Thomas syndrome

Thomas syndrome, also called Potter sequence-cleft lip/palate-cardiopathy syndrome (ORPHA:3316), is an extremely rare autosomal recessive congenital disorder with renal anomalies, cardiac malformations, and cleft lip or palate, described in six patients.

Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012), Hungarian-born American psychiatrist at SUNY Syracuse, author of The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), who argued mental illness is a metaphor for problems in living and opposed involuntary psychiatry, the insanity defense, and drug prohibition.

Thomas T. Cullen

Thomas Tullidge Cullen is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia since 2020, appointed by Donald Trump.

Thomas T. Perkins

Thomas T. Perkins is an American biophysicist and JILA Fellow at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who studies individual biological molecules with optical tweezers and atomic force microscopy.

Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–November 1585) was an English Renaissance composer and Chapel Royal Gentleman serving four Tudor monarchs; known for the 40-voice motet Spem in alium, Parker's 1567 psalm tunes, and the 1575 Tallis–Byrd music printing patent.

Thomas Tarnowski

Thomas Tarnowski is a Danish investment professional who has been a Managing Director at growth equity firm Summit Partners since 2013, based in London, focusing on European healthcare investments.

Thomas Taubner

Thomas Taubner (born 1975 in Bruchsal, Germany) is a physicist working on nano-optics and metamaterials who has been Junior Professor at RWTH Aachen since December 2008, known for phase-change materials in reconfigurable infrared photonic devices.

Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer who built canals, roads, and bridges across Britain and served as first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Thomas Tenison

Thomas Tenison was an English churchman and Whig Latitudinarian who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1695 until his death in 1715, crowning Queen Anne and George I.

Thomas Terwilliger

Thomas C. Terwilliger is an American structural biologist at the New Mexico Consortium who created the SOLVE and RESOLVE software for automated protein crystal structure solution.

Thomas test

The Thomas test is a physical examination maneuver in which a thigh that fails to rest flat on the table while the opposite hip is flexed indicates a hip flexion contracture.

Thomas the Apostle

Thomas the Apostle, also called Judas Thomas, is one of the twelve apostles, known for doubting the resurrection and for the tradition that he brought Christianity to India.

Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine, also known as Thomas the train, is a fictional blue steam locomotive created by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, first appearing in 1946.

Thomas Thornycroft

Thomas Thornycroft (Isaac Thomas Thornycroft, 1881–1955), British motorboat racer and yacht designer, won both 1908 Olympic motorboating golds in Gyrinus II, helped create the Swallow keelboat class, and was a 1952 yachting reserve.

Thomas Thorstensen

Thomas Thorstensen (1880–1953) was a Norwegian artistic gymnast of Bergens TF who won Olympic silver in the 1908 team event and gold in the 1912 free system team event; brother of Gabriel Thorstensen.

Thomas Thum

Thomas Thum is a German cardiologist and professor at Hannover Medical School who established microRNAs as drug targets in heart failure and co-founded Cardior Pharmaceuticals.

Thomas Tompion

Thomas Tompion (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker from Bedfordshire whose Fleet Street workshop set the standard for precision timekeeping in late seventeenth-century Europe, producing about 650 clocks and 5,000 numbered watches.

Thomas Townsend Brown

Thomas Townsend Brown (1905–1985) was an American experimenter who claimed that asymmetric capacitors under high voltage feel a force, the Biefeld–Brown effect, later explained as ion wind.

Thomas Troubridge

Sir Thomas Troubridge (c. 1758–1807) was a Royal Navy rear-admiral who led the line at Cape St Vincent and was lost at sea in 1807.

Thomas Tuchel

Thomas Tuchel is a German football coach and head coach of the England national team, appointed in 2024 after spells at Chelsea, Bayern Munich, PSG, and Dortmund.

Thomas Tull

Thomas Tull (born 1970, Endwell, New York) is an American film producer and billionaire investor, founder and former CEO of Legendary Pictures, seller of the studio to Wanda for $3.5 billion, and later investor via Tulco.

Thomas Turelier

Thomas Turelier is a French venture capital investor based in Paris, Managing Director - Venture Digital at Eurazeo since January 2025, investing in European digital startups.