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Thomas Turgoose

Thomas Turgoose (born 1992, Grimsby) is an English actor, also nicknamed Tommo, best known as Shaun in This Is England (2006) and its Channel 4 sequels, a BIFA Most Promising Newcomer winner, later seen in Somers Town, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Game of Thrones, and Mickey 17.

Thomas Tuschl

Thomas Tuschl, born 1966 in Germany, is an RNA biologist at Rockefeller University who demonstrated siRNA gene silencing in human cells and co-founded Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

Thomas Udem

Thomas Udem is a German experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching who helped develop the frequency comb technique for measuring optical frequencies.

Thomas Urquhart

Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (Urchard, 1611–c. 1660), Scottish Royalist knight, writer, and polymath, translator of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (Books I–II, 1653) and author of Logopandecteision, a scheme for a universal language.

Thomas V. O’Halloran

Thomas V. O'Halloran is an American bioinorganic chemist known for metal-sensing proteins that switch genes on and off and for discovering zinc sparks at egg fertilization.

Thomas Venatorius

Thomas Venatorius, born Gechauff (c. 1488–4 February 1551), was a German Protestant preacher, humanist, and mathematician who reformed Nuremberg churches, wrote the first independent Protestant ethics work in 1529, and first printed Archimedes in 1544.

Thomas Vermaelen

Thomas Vermaelen (born 1985, Kapellen) is a Belgian former centre-back who captained Ajax and Arsenal, won four La Liga titles with Barcelona, earned 85 Belgium caps, retired in 2022, and became a Belgium assistant and U20 coach.

Thomas Victor Jones

Thomas Victor Jones (1920–2014) was an American aeronautical engineer and defense executive who led Northrop Corporation for three decades and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.

Thomas Vidick

Thomas Vidick is a Belgian quantum information theorist and cryptographer who won a 2016 PECASE award at Caltech and now leads a group at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Thomas Vincent Faustus Sadler

Thomas Vincent Faustus Sadler (1604–1681) was an English Benedictine monk who worked as a missionary priest in England and is remembered chiefly for publishing and translating Catholic devotional works under the signature "T.V."

Thomas Vinterberg

Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director and screenwriter born 1969, co-founded Dogme 95; his Festen won the 1998 Cannes Jury Prize and Another Round won the 2021 Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

Thomas Voets

Thomas Voets is a Belgian physiologist and full professor at KU Leuven who heads the Laboratory of Ion Channel Research and studies TRP ion channels.

Sep 19, 2026

Thomas von Koch

Thomas von Koch is a Swedish private equity executive who joined EQT's founding team in 1994 and was its CEO and Managing Partner from 2014 to 2019.

Thomas W. Asmus

Thomas W. Asmus is an automotive engineer and retired senior research executive of DaimlerChrysler, known for over 30 years of engine and fuels research reducing fuel consumption and emissions.

Thomas W. Cline

Thomas W. Cline is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for showing that the fruit fly gene Sex-lethal controls sex determination and dosage compensation.

Thomas W. Crowther

Thomas W. Crowther is a British ecosystem ecologist who founded the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich, estimated the world's 2.4 trillion trees, and founded the Restor restoration platform.

Thomas W. Eagar

Thomas W. Eagar was an American metallurgist and MIT professor of materials engineering who led the department from 1995 to 2000 and was an internationally recognized welding expert.

Thomas W. Ebbesen

Thomas W. Ebbesen, born 1954 in Oslo, is a Franco-Norwegian physical chemist at the University of Strasbourg known for discovering extraordinary optical transmission and founding polaritonic chemistry.

Thomas W. Gardner

Thomas W. Gardner, full name Thomas Wright Gardner, is an ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center known for research on diabetic retinopathy.

Thomas W. Geisbert

Thomas W. Geisbert is an American virologist known for Ebola and Marburg research since the 1980s, now a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Thomas W. Hamann

Thomas W. Hamann is a materials and inorganic chemist, professor at Michigan State University, known for work on dye-sensitized solar cells and hematite photoanodes for water oxidation.

Thomas W. Healy

Thomas W. Healy, born 1937, is an Australian physical chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne, known for colloid and interface science and mineral processing.

Thomas W. Lamont

Thomas W. Lamont, full name Thomas William Lamont, was an American banker who joined J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1910 and served as its de facto head and later chairman.

Thomas W. Langfitt

Thomas W. Langfitt (1927–2005) was an American neurosurgeon who chaired neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 to 1987 and later served as president of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Thomas W. Parks

Thomas W. Parks (1939–2020) was an American electrical engineer and digital signal processing researcher, professor at Rice and Cornell, best known as co-creator of the Parks–McClellan algorithm.

Sep 27, 2026

Thomas W. Phillips (federal judge)

Thomas W. Phillips, born 1943 in Oneida, Tennessee, is an American jurist appointed by George W. Bush as a US district judge in Tennessee from 2002 to 2013.

Thomas W. Schoener

Thomas W. Schoener is an American ecologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for resource partitioning, optimal foraging theory, and Bahamian island experiments.

Thomas W. Smith

Thomas Woodward Smith (1936–1997) was an American cardiologist who led cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital for 22 years and developed digitalis radioimmunoassay and antibody treatment for digitalis poisoning.