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Tom Holland (filmmaker)

Tom Holland (born 1943) is an American horror screenwriter and director, also known as an actor under the name Tom Fielding. He wrote Psycho II, directed Fright Night (1985) and Child's Play (1988), and adapted Stephen King's The Langoliers and Thinner.

Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander (Thomas Anthony Hollander, born 1967, Bristol) is a British actor known for Mr Collins in Pride & Prejudice, Lord Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, Rev., The Night Manager (BAFTA win), and The White Lotus.

Tom Homan

Tom Homan is an American law enforcement official and White House Border Czar since 2025, who led deportation efforts as Acting Director of ICE from 2017 to 2018.

Tom Hooper

Tom Hooper (born 1972, London) is the British director of The King's Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl, Cats, and the HBO miniseries John Adams; Oscar and Emmy winner.

Tom Hopper

Tom Hopper (Thomas Edward Hopper, born 1985), English actor, not the Pixar Hoppers character: Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, Luther in The Umbrella Academy.

Tom Horn

Tom Horn (c. 1860-1903), American Old West army scout, Pinkerton detective, and Wyoming stock detective, hanged in Cheyenne on November 20, 1903, for the 1901 murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell; his guilt and 1902 trial remain contested.

Tom Howard (photographer)

Tom Howard, Chicago Tribune photographer who secretly photographed Ruth Snyder's 1928 Sing Sing electrocution with an ankle camera for the New York Daily News; later Sun-Times chief photographer, grandfather of George Wendt; not the Jack Ruby attorney or Utah painter.

Tom Huddlestone

Tom Huddlestone, full name Thomas Andrew Huddlestone, is an English former footballer, a defensive midfielder who won four England caps and the 2008 League Cup with Tottenham.

Tom Hughes (actor)

Tom Hughes (born 1986, Upton, Cheshire) is an English RADA-trained actor, not the painter, musician, or filmmaker of the same name. Known for Prince Albert in Victoria, Joe Lambe in The Game, and Malpractice season 2.

Tom Hulce

Tom Hulce (Thomas Edward Hulce), American actor and theater producer born 1953 in Whitewater, Wisconsin; Oscar-nominated as Mozart in Amadeus, Pinto in Animal House, voice of Quasimodo; Tony-winning producer of Spring Awakening.

Tom Humphreys

Tom Humphreys was an American molecular biologist at the University of Hawaiʻi who showed how stored maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs is activated at fertilization.

Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter, or Sir Thomas Blane Hunter, is a Scottish entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Sports Division and sold it to JJB Sports in 1998 for £290m.

Tom Hutchinson

Tom Hutchinson (Thomas Hutchinson) is a Chicago options trader who founded Belvedere Trading in 2002, a proprietary trading firm and broker-dealer specializing in equity index options.

Tom Ince

Tom Ince (Thomas Ince, born 1992), English left-footed attacking midfielder and son of Paul Ince; Blackpool, Derby, Stoke (£12m), Watford; 550+ appearances, 114 goals; England U21; now Tranmere Rovers.

Tom Irwin (actor)

Tom Irwin (born 1956, Peoria, Illinois) is an American actor and Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member since 1979, known for Graham Chase in My So-Called Life, Adrian Powell in Devious Maids, and Fred Micklen in The Morning Show.

Tom Izzo

Tom Izzo (born 1955, Iron Mountain, Michigan) is Michigan State's men's basketball head coach since 1995: 2000 NCAA champion, 8 Final Fours, 764-310 record, 28 straight NCAA tournaments, 2016 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee.

Tom J. Battin

Tom J. Battin is a Luxembourg-born aquatic microbial ecologist who heads the River Ecosystems Laboratory at EPFL in Switzerland, studying stream biofilms and the global carbon cycle.

Tom J. Guilfoyle

Tom J. Guilfoyle was an American plant molecular biologist at the University of Missouri whose laboratory identified the auxin response factor ARF1 and created the DR5 element.

Tom Jackson (actor)

Tom Jackson (Thomas Dale Jackson), Canadian Cree actor, singer-songwriter and humanitarian born 1948 in Saskatchewan; star of North of 60, Shining Time Station, and Sullivan's Crossing, founder of the Huron Carole benefit concerts that raised about $250 million for food banks and disaster relief, Officer and Companion of the Order of Canada. Not the NFL analyst of the same name.

Tom Jager

Tom Jager (Thomas Michael Jager, born 1964), American sprint freestyle swimmer; five Olympic relay golds among seven medals, six 50 m freestyle world records, 21.81 best held a decade until Popov's 21.64 in 2000.

Tom James

Tom James (Thomas Watkin James, born 1984) is a Welsh-British rower who won Olympic gold in the men's coxless four at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, plus 2011 World gold; MBE, retired 2013.

Tom Jefferson

Tom Jefferson, born in Viareggio, Italy in 1954, is a British epidemiologist who edits the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group and questions influenza vaccination policy.

Tom Jenkins (Canadian businessman)

Tom Jenkins is a Canadian technology executive who was CEO of OpenText from 1994 to 2005, has chaired its board since 1998, and returned as Executive Chair in 2025.

Tom Johnston (musician)

Tom Johnston (Charles Thomas Johnston, born 1948, Visalia, California) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, founding member and primary early songwriter of the Doobie Brothers, writer of "Listen to the Music" and "China Grove," distinct from the Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson and the composer Tom Johnson.

Tom Jones (1963 film)

Tom Jones (1963) is Tony Richardson's British comedy adaptation of Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, written by John Osborne. It won four Oscars including Best Picture and grossed about $37.6 million on a $1 million budget.

Tom Jones (lyricist)

Tom Jones (1928–2023), American lyricist and librettist, not the Welsh singer, co-wrote with composer Harvey Schmidt The Fantasticks (1960), the longest-running musical in history with 21,552 performances, plus 110 in the Shade and I Do! I Do!.

Tom Jones (singer)

Tom Jones (Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, born 7 June 1940, Pontypridd, Wales) is a Welsh baritone pop singer, 'Jones the Voice', whose 1965 hit 'It's Not Unusual' launched a career of gold and platinum records, Las Vegas headlining, Reload (5 million), a 2006 knighthood and The Voice UK coaching.

Tom Jones discography

Tom Jones discography: albums and singles of Welsh singer Sir Tom Jones (Thomas John Woodward), from 1965's Along Came Jones and It's Not Unusual through Reload (5 million sold) to Surrounded By Time, the 2021 album that made him the oldest male with a UK No. 1.

Tom Joyner

Tom Joyner, American radio host and philanthropist, first African American to host a nationally syndicated morning show; the Fly Jock flew daily between Dallas and Chicago, later founded the Tom Joyner Foundation for HBCU students.

Tom Junod

Tom Junod, American longform magazine journalist, ESPN senior writer since 2016, formerly GQ and Esquire; two-time National Magazine Award winner, author of "The Falling Man" and "Can You Say…Hero?", basis for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.