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Tom Kane

Tom Kane (Thomas Kane Roberts, 1962-2026) was an American voice actor, the narrator, Yoda, and Admiral Yularen of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Professor Utonium in The Powerpuff Girls; he died at 64 from 2020 stroke complications.

Tom Keifer

Tom Keifer (born 1961, Philadelphia) is an American singer-guitarist, frontman of Cinderella (15 million records; triple-platinum Night Songs, Long Cold Winter), later solo artist with The Way Life Goes and Rise, leading #keiferband despite vocal cord paresis.

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy (Thomas Garrett Kennedy) is a professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Arizona, the K in the AKLT spin-1 chain model he introduced in 1987 with Affleck, Lieb, and Tasaki.

Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny (born 1962, East Syracuse, New York) is an American voice actor and comedian, the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999, also Heffer Wolfe, the Ice King, Spyro, and the Powerpuff Girls Narrator/Mayor; two-time Daytime Emmy winner married to actress Jill Talley.

Tom Kerridge

Tom Kerridge (born 1973) is an English chef-patron of The Hand and Flowers in Marlow, credited as the first pub to hold two Michelin stars, and a TV cook and author of Proper Pub Food and Pub Kitchen.

Tom Ketchum

Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum (1863–1901), American outlaw and train robber of the Ketchum Gang in Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas; hanged at Clayton in 1901 for attempted train robbery, decapitated by the rope.

Tom kha kai (ต้มข่าไก่)

Tom kha kai (ต้มข่าไก่), or tom kha gai, is a Thai coconut milk chicken soup from central Thailand flavored with galangal, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves; unlike tom yum it uses coconut milk, and TasteAtlas named it the world's best chicken soup in 2023.

Tom Kibble

Tom Kibble, fully Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble, was a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who co-formulated the Higgs mechanism and invented the Kibble balance.

Tom Kiely

Tom Kiely (1869–1951), Irish all-round athlete from Ballyneale, Tipperary, won the ten-event All-Around at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics with 6036 points, set a 162 ft hammer world record in 1899, and was recognized as Olympic champion only in 1954.

Tom Kilburn

Tom Kilburn was a British engineer who, with G.C. Tootill, built the Manchester Baby, the world's first stored-program computer, and led the Mark 1 and Atlas machines.

Tom Kim

Tom Kim (Kim Joo-hyung, 김주형), South Korean PGA Tour golfer; four Tour wins including 2022 Wyndham and Shriners, youngest multiple winner since Woods, 2026 Scottish Open champion.

Tom King

Tom King (Thomas Jack King, born 1973, Melbourne) is an Australian sailor, 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medallist in the 470 dinghy with Mark Turnbull; distinct from the powerlifter Tom King and athlete Tom Kiely.

Tom King (writer)

Tom King (born 1978) is an American comic book writer and former CIA counterterrorism officer, known for The Vision, Mister Miracle, The Sheriff of Babylon, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, and his DC Batman run.

Tom Krause (business executive)

Tom Krause is a technology executive, a Princeton-educated Broadcom CFO and Software Group president credited with the $61 billion VMware deal, who became CEO of Cloud Software Group in 2022.

Tom Kristensen

Tom Kristensen (1893–1974) was a Danish author and literary critic, a leading interwar figure best known for the novel Hærværk (1930) and decades as Politiken's chief reviewer.

Tom L. Blundell

Sir Tom Blundell, born 1942, is a British structural biologist at Cambridge who helped solve insulin's 1969 structure and pioneered structural bioinformatics and fragment-based drug discovery.

Tom Lackey

Tom Lackey is an American politician and Republican member of the California State Assembly since 2014, representing District 34 since 2022 after District 36; he is term-limited and not running in 2026.

Tom Landry

Tom Landry (Thomas Wade Landry, 1924–2000) was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, serving from 1960 to 1988 and winning Super Bowls VI and XII.

Tom Lantos

Tom Lantos (Lantos Tamás Péter, 1928–2008), Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, Democratic U.S. representative for California's 12th district 1981–2008, Foreign Affairs chairman, human rights advocate.

Tom Laughlin

Tom Laughlin (Thomas Robert Laughlin Jr.) was an American performer and filmmaker known for inventing and starring as Billy Jack in films from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Tom Lawlor

"Filthy" Tom Lawlor, American MMA fighter (UFC 2008-2016, 10-6 1 NC overall) turned pro wrestler and commentator in MLW and NJPW; Team Filthy leader, MLW World Heavyweight Champion, 2018 Battle Riot and 2020 Opera Cup winner.

Tom Lawrence

Tom Lawrence (Thomas Morris Lawrence, born 1994, Wrexham), Welsh forward for Perth Glory; ex-Manchester United, Leicester, Derby, Rangers; 23 Wales caps, 3 goals; distinct from goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence.

Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer (Thomas Andrew Lehrer, 1928–2025) was an American song satirist and Harvard-trained mathematician known for "The Elements," "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," and self-pressed 1950s comedy albums; he taught at UC Santa Cruz and released all his songs to the public domain in 2020.

Tom Lester

Tom Lester (Thomas William Lester, 1938-2020), American actor and evangelist, played farmhand Eb Dawson on Green Acres (1965-1971), its crossovers, and Return to Green Acres; later a Mississippi farmer and speaker.

Tom Leykis

Tom Leykis (born 1956) is an American talk-radio host of The Tom Leykis Show, syndicated by Westwood One on up to 225 stations, aired on KFI, KMPC, and KLSX Los Angeles, later an internet broadcaster who retired in 2024.

Tom Lieb

Tom Lieb (Thomas John Lieb, 1899-1962), American discus thrower, 1924 Olympic bronze medalist and world record holder at 47.61 m; later Notre Dame assistant and head football coach at Loyola Marymount and Florida, 54-50-3.

Tom Liebscher

Tom Liebscher-Lucz, born 1993 in Dresden, is a German canoeist with Olympic gold in the K4 at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024, plus multiple world and European titles.

Tom Lipinski

Tom Lipinski (born 1982) is an American actor and documentary producer known as Trevor Evans in Suits, for the young Josh Brolin role in Labor Day, The Knick, Billions, and the Murrow Award-winning podcast Gone South.

Tom Llamas

Tom Llamas is an American broadcast journalist and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. He became the first Latino anchor of a daily English-language network evening newscast.

Tom Lockyer

Tom Lockyer (born 1994, Cardiff) is a Welsh center back with 16 caps who captained Luton Town into the Premier League, survived a December 2023 cardiac arrest at Bournemouth, and returned via Bristol Rovers and Melbourne Victory.