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Tom Glynn-Carney

Tom Glynn-Carney (born 1995, Salford, England) is an English actor known for Dunkirk (2017), The Ferryman on stage, and as King Aegon II Targaryen in HBO's House of the Dragon.

Tom Golisano

Tom Golisano is an American businessman who founded the payroll company Paychex in Rochester, New York, in 1971 and has given over $1 billion to charity.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Tom Goodman-Hill is an English actor, a Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduate (1995), Emmy-nominated for Darrien O'Connor in Baby Reindeer, known for Joe Hawkins in Humans, Roger Grove in Mr Selfridge, and an Olivier-nominated Sir Lancelot in Spamalot.

Tom Gores

Tom Gores, born Tewfiq Georgious in Nazareth, Israel, in 1964, is a private equity investor who founded Platinum Equity in 1995 and owns the NBA's Detroit Pistons.

Tom Gorman

Tom Gorman was a Canadian athlete and sports promoter who won lacrosse gold at the 1908 Olympics, founded the NHL, and managed seven Stanley Cup winners.

Tom Green

Tom Green (born 1971, Pembroke, Ontario) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and rapper, creator of The Tom Green Show on MTV, star of Freddy Got Fingered and Road Trip, now a farmer near Ottawa.

Tom Green (polygamist)

Thomas Arthur Green (1948-2021), Utah independent Mormon fundamentalist polygamist, not an LDS Church member, lived with five wives and about 30 children at Greenhaven; convicted of bigamy in 2001 and child rape in 2002.

Tom Green's House Tonight

Tom Green's House Tonight, launched 2006 as Tom Green Live, was an internet talk show Green hosted live from his Los Angeles living room until 2011, later syndicated to TV and winning a 2007 Webby Award.

Tom Grennan

Tom Grennan (born 1995, Bedford) is an English singer-songwriter signed to Insanity Records, known for gravelly pop-soul, the Chase & Status hit All Goes Wrong, and three UK number 1 albums: Evering Road, What Ifs & Maybes, and Everywhere I Went Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be.

Tom H. Stevens

Tom H. Stevens, also known as Tom Stevens, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Oregon known for discovering the yeast vps protein-sorting genes.

Tom Hades

Tom Hades is the alias of Belgian techno producer and DJ Wim Vanoeveren from Tienen, known for the 2001 anthem "I Love Techno" with Marco Bailey.

Tom Hagen

Tom Hagen: fictional consigliere and lawyer of the Corleone crime family in Mario Puzo's The Godfather; Irish-German adopted son of Don Vito, played by Robert Duvall in the first two films, absent from Part III over a salary dispute.

Tom Hamilton (musician)

Tom Hamilton, born Thomas William Hamilton in 1951, is the American bassist and founding member of the rock band Aerosmith, co-writing songs including "Sweet Emotion" and "Janie's Got a Gun".

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks (born 1956, Concord, California) is an American actor and filmmaker, star of Splash, Big, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, and the Toy Story franchise, and winner of back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.

Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy (Edward Thomas Hardy, born 1977) is a British actor from Bronson, Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road and Venom, an Oscar nominee for The Revenant and star of Paramount+'s MobLand.

Tom Harkin

Tom Harkin (born 1939) is a retired Iowa Democrat who served five House terms (1975-1985) and five Senate terms (1985-2015), authored the Americans with Disabilities Act, and chaired the Agriculture and HELP committees.

Tom Harmon

Tom Harmon (1919-1990), Michigan halfback 'Old 98', won the 1940 Heisman Trophy after finishing second in 1939, led the nation in scoring both years, served as a WWII pilot, and became a famed broadcaster.

Tom Hartley (psychologist)

Tom Hartley is a neuroscientist leading the Neural Representation Lab at the University of York, whose 2000 computational model predicted border cells, confirmed experimentally in 2008.

Tom Hatcher

Tom Hatcher is an American Republican politician serving in the Tennessee Senate from the 2nd district since January 2025, after serving as Blount County Circuit Court clerk.

Tom Haverford

Tom Haverford (Thomas Montgomery Haverford, born Darwish Sabir Ishmael Ghani) is the fictional Pawnee parks department administrator played by Aziz Ansari in all seven seasons of NBC's Parks and Recreation, known for business ventures like Entertainment 720 and Treat Yo Self.

Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden (1939-2016), American activist and politician; SDS founder and author of the 1962 Port Huron Statement; Chicago Seven defendant; California Assemblyman 1982 and state Senator 1992; author of Big Green.

Tom Heaton

Tom Heaton, English goalkeeper born 1986, Manchester United academy product and third-choice keeper since 2021; ex-Burnley captain (188 apps), Aston Villa, 3 England caps, Euro 2024 training goalkeeper.

Tom Heinsohn

Tom Heinsohn (1934-2020), Boston Celtics Hall of Fame forward, coach, and broadcaster; eight titles as a player, two as coach (1974, 1976), 1957 Rookie of the Year, only person tied to all 17 Celtics championships.

Tom Herman

Tom Herman, American college football coach; head coach at Houston, Texas, and Florida Atlantic (2015-2024), 60-38 record; 2014 Broyles Award winner at Ohio State; reportedly joining Florida State staff in 2026.

Tom Hicks

Tom Hicks (Thomas John Hicks, 1876–1952), English-born American marathoner, won the 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon in 3:28:53 using strychnine, egg white, and brandy, the first documented Olympic doping case.

Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston (born 1981, Westminster, London) is an English stage and screen actor; RADA graduate and Cambridge Classics double first. Famous as Loki in Thor, The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, and the Disney+ series Loki, and as Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager (Golden Globe 2017, two Emmy nominations 2016).

Tom Hoff

Tom Hoff, born Thomas John Hoff in 1973 in Chicago, is a retired American volleyball middle blocker who captained the United States to gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Tom Holkenborg

Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, is a Dutch composer born 1967 in Lichtenvoorde; Grammy-nominated electronic artist behind the 2002 Elvis remix, now a Hollywood film composer for Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, and Sonic.

Tom Holland

Tom Holland, full name Thomas Stanley Holland, is an English actor born in 1996 in Kingston upon Thames, best known for playing Peter Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man films.

Tom Holland (author)

Tom Holland (born 1968) is the British historian and broadcaster, author of Rubicon, Persian Fire, and Pax (not the actor), translator of Herodotus, and co-host of the podcast The Rest Is History with Dominic Sandbrook.