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Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, and editor best known for Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphry Clinker, published in the year of his death.

Tobias Walther

Tobias C. Walther is a cell biologist studying lipid storage and metabolism, an HHMI investigator since 2015 and chair of cell biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York.

Tobias Wendl

Tobias Wendl (born 1987, Aachen) is a German doubles luger racing with Tobias Arlt, the 'Bayern Express'. Record seven Olympic luge golds (2014, 2018, 2022 doubles and relay; 2026 relay) plus 2026 doubles bronze.

Tobias Whale

Tobias Whale, the Great White Whale, is a DC Comics albino African-American crime boss and leader of the 100, archenemy of Black Lightning; created by Tony Isabella and Trevor von Eeden, debuting in Black Lightning #1 (April 1977), and played by Marvin "Krondon" Jones III on The CW series (2018-2021).

Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff (born 1945, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American short-story writer, memoirist, and novelist, author of This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, The Barracks Thief (PEN/Faulkner), and Old School; Stanford professor, National Medal of Arts 2015. Not the philosopher Christian Wolff or economist Richard Wolff.

Tobiko (とびこ)

Tobiko (とびこ, also tobikko) is salted, seasoned flying fish roe used as a crunchy sushi topping; larger, crunchier, and pricier than masago (capelin roe), naturally orange-red, sold dyed black, green, yellow, or red.

Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell (born 1942) is an American character actor, born in Queens and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, best known as John Kramer/Jigsaw in the Saw franchise since 2004, with supporting roles in Mississippi Burning, Goodfellas, and The Firm.

Tobin Heath

Tobin Heath (Tobin Powell Heath, born 1988) is an American retired soccer winger: 181 USWNT caps, World Cup champion 2015 and 2019, Olympic gold 2008 and 2012, Portland Thorns icon, 2026 Hall of Fame inductee.

Tobin J. Marks

Tobin J. Marks is an American chemist, the Ipatieff Professor at Northwestern University, known for organometallic catalysis and winner of the 2007 National Medal of Science.

Tobin tax

The Tobin tax is a proposed small, internationally uniform tax on currency exchanges, first proposed by economist James Tobin in 1972 to curb short-term speculation.

Tobin's q

Tobin's q, or the Q ratio, is the ratio of a firm's market value to the replacement cost of its assets, introduced by James Tobin in 1969.

Tobira Jima

Tobira Jima (トビラ島) is a small 0.017 km² island off the Ichi settlement, Sumiyō-chō, Amami City, Kagoshima, Japan, at 28.2326°N 129.4456°E, known for a goddess legend and absence of habu snakes.

Tobit model

The Tobit model, or Tobit regression, is an econometric censored-regression model named by Arthur Goldberger for James Tobin, who introduced it in 1958 to model household purchases of consumer durables.

Toblerone

Toblerone is a triangular Swiss chocolate bar with honey-almond nougat, invented in 1908 in Bern by Theodor Tobler and Emil Baumann; the name joins Tobler and torrone. Owned by Mondelez since 1990, made mainly in Bern, exported to 120 countries.

Toboggan

Toboggan: a long, flat-bottomed sled with a curved front and no runners, of Indigenous North American origin (Maliseet 'tapakon, Mi'kmaq topagan); used for hauling loads and recreation, distinct from runner sleds and Olympic sliding sports.

Tobol

Tobol (Тобыл, Tobyl), 1,591-km left tributary of the Irtysh rising in Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan, flowing through Kurgan to Tobolsk; snow-fed, reservoir-regulated, transboundary with Russia, supplying Kostanay's water.

Toboso encounter

The Toboso encounter, also called the Toboso killings or Negros 19, was an April 19, 2026 clash between the Philippine Army's 79th Infantry Battalion and the NPA Northern Negros Front in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental, killing 19 people. The Army said all were rebels; the NPA and rights groups said nine were civilians, prompting CHR and congressional probes.

Tobramycin

Tobramycin (3'-deoxykanamycin B, from Streptomyces tenebrarius) is an aminoglycoside antibiotic active against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, given by injection, inhalation for cystic fibrosis, and ophthalmic drops; dose-limited by ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity.

Tobravirus tabaci

Tobravirus tabaci, virus name tobacco rattle virus (TRV), is a bipartite positive-sense RNA plant virus in Virgaviridae, genus Tobravirus, transmitted by trichodorid nematodes, infecting over 400 plant species, and the basis of the most widely used plant VIGS vector.

Tobruk (طبرق)

Tobruk (طبرق) is a port city in eastern Libya near the Egyptian border, famed for the 242-day 1941 siege, later seat of the recognized House of Representatives government, population about 135,000.

Tobu World Square

Tobu World Square (東武ワールドスクウェア), theme park in Kinugawa Onsen, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan, opened 1993 by Tobu Railway; 102 buildings from 21 countries, including 46 UNESCO World Heritage sites, reproduced at 1/25 scale across six zones.

Tobu Zoo

Tobu Zoo (東武動物公園) is a hybrid leisure park in Miyashiro-machi, Saitama, Japan, opened in 1981: a zoo with about 1,200 animals of 120 species, an amusement park with the water wooden coaster Regina II and Kawasemi, gardens, and the summer Tobu Super Pool.

Toby Alderweireld

Toby Alderweireld is a Belgian former center-back, born in 1989, best known for six years at Tottenham Hotspur and 127 caps with Belgium, retiring in 2025.

Toby Anstis

Toby Anstis, English radio and TV presenter and DJ; CBBC Broom Cupboard presenter, Heart mid-morning host from 2001, and 2019 launch presenter of Heart Dance Breakfast.

Toby Aromolaran

Toby Aromolaran, also known as Tobias Ademide Aromolaran, is an English television personality and semi-professional footballer. He was a runner-up on Love Island series 7 in 2021.

Toby Berger

Toby Berger (1940–2022) was an American information theorist and professor at Cornell and the University of Virginia, known for rate-distortion theory, multiterminal source coding, and the Shannon Award.

Toby Fournier

Toby Fournier, Canadian forward for Duke Blue Devils women's basketball from Toronto, 2025 ACC Rookie of the Year, two-time All-ACC First Team, and a rare dunker in the women's college game.

Toby Fox

Toby Fox (トビー・フォックス) is an American independent video game developer and composer known for creating Undertale (2015), which he made almost entirely himself, and Deltarune.

Toby Gerhart

Toby Gerhart, Stanford running back, 2009 Doak Walker Award winner and Heisman runner-up to Mark Ingram; drafted 51st overall by Minnesota Vikings in 2010, later Jacksonville Jaguars; power between-the-tackles runner, 2024 College Football Hall of Fame.

Toby Huss

Toby Huss (born 1966, Marshalltown, Iowa) is an American actor and writer known as Artie on The Adventures of Pete & Pete, the voice of Kahn and Cotton Hill, and later Dale Gribble, in King of the Hill.