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Tom Longboat

Tom Longboat (Cogwagee), Onondaga runner from Six Nations, Ontario (1887-1949); won 1907 Boston Marathon, 1909 world professional marathon title, set 1912 15-mile record; pioneered hard-easy training.

Tom Louchet

Tom Alexis Louchet (born 2003, Manosque) is a French midfielder, OGC Nice academy product, 89 matches and 7 goals for Nice, Coupe de France finalist 2026, transferred to PAOK Thessaloniki in August 2026.

Tom Loverro

Tom Loverro is a venture capitalist at IVP known for later-stage investments in Coinbase, Datadog, and GitHub, ranked #92 on the Forbes 2021 Midas List.

Tom Lubensky

Tom Lubensky (born 1943) is an American theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for liquid crystals, microrheology of living cells, and topological mechanics; he won the Buckley Prize in 2004.

Tom Luedde

Tom Lüdde is a German gastroenterologist and hepatologist who became clinic director at Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf in 2020, known for liver cancer research and deep-learning histology.

Tom M. Mitchell

Tom M. Mitchell is an American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who founded the first university Machine Learning Department and wrote the textbook Machine Learning (1997).

Tom MacDonald (rapper)

Tom MacDonald (Thomas MacDonald, born 1988) is a Canadian independent rapper and former pro wrestler in Los Angeles, known for politically charged songs like "Fake Woke," the Adam Calhoun albums The Brave and The Brave II, and the 2024 Ben Shapiro single "Facts."

Tom Mackintosh

Tom Mackintosh (Thomas Mackintosh, born 1997, Wellington) is a New Zealand rower, 197 cm, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, 2023 world single sculls bronze medallist, fifth at Paris 2024, and Oxford Boat Club president 2024-25.

Tom Malchow

Tom Malchow (Thomas Andrew Malchow, born 1976), American swimmer, 2000 Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m butterfly, 1996 silver medalist, and 200 m butterfly world record holder (1:55.18, June 2000 to March 2001) before Michael Phelps.

Tom Maniatis

Tom Maniatis is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University, known for pioneering gene cloning, the manual Molecular Cloning, and ALS research.

Tom Mboya

Tom Mboya (Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya, 1930–1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist and nationalist politician who co-founded KANU and organized student airlifts to American universities.

Tom McAlpin

Tom McAlpin is a cruise executive who was founding CEO of Virgin Voyages, the adults-only cruise line, after five years as president of Disney Cruise Line.

Tom McCarthy (director)

Tom McCarthy (born 1966, New Providence, New Jersey) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor, distinct from the novelist and other namesakes. He directed The Station Agent, The Visitor, Win Win, and Spotlight, which won the 2016 Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Tom McClintock

Tom McClintock (born 1956) is the U.S. Republican representative for California's 5th District since 2009, formerly CA-4, after 22 years in the California legislature, a 2003 recall gubernatorial run, and a fiscal-conservative voting record.

Tom McGillvray

Tom McGillvray is an American Republican politician and Majority Leader of the Montana Senate, representing Billings; in 2025 he joined a lawsuit against a property tax bill.

Tom McGowan

Tom McGowan (born 1959, Belmar, New Jersey) is an American character actor, Tony-nominated for La Bete on Broadway in 1991, Obie winner for The Food Chain, known as Kenny Daly on Frasier, and a recurring Wizard in Wicked.

Tom McGrath (animator)

Tom McGrath (animator), born 1964 or 1965, American DreamWorks Animation director and voice actor; co-directed Madagascar with Eric Darnell, directed Megamind and The Boss Baby films, and voices Skipper the penguin.

Tom McInnis (North Carolina politician)

Tom McInnis is an American Republican politician and member of the North Carolina State Senate from the 21st district, previously on the Richmond County Board of Education.

Tom McKay (actor)

Tom McKay (born 1979, Solihull, England) is an English actor; played Jasper Tudor in The White Queen, Jim McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys, and voices Henry of Skalitz in Kingdom Come: Deliverance I and II. Distinct from the Blackburn comedy director of the same name.

Tom McKinney (broadcaster)

Tom McKinney, British broadcaster and classical guitarist, presents BBC Radio 3's weekday Breakfast from Salford since April 2025; RNCM-trained, presenting on Radio 3 since 2012, birdwatcher, Essay writer on bird migration. Not the American writers of the same name.

Tom Meighan

Tom Meighan (Thomas Peter Meighan), English rock singer from Blaby, Leicestershire; founding frontman of Kasabian 1997-2020, six albums, then dismissed after a 2020 assault conviction; solo albums The Reckoning, Roadrunner, The Past The Present The Raw.

Tom Metzger

Tom Metzger (Thomas Linton Metzger, 1938-2020) was an American white supremacist, California KKK grand dragon, and founder of White Aryan Resistance, known for the cable show Race and Reason and the $12.5 million Seraw judgment.

Tom Mison

Tom Mison (Thomas James Mison, born 1982, Woking, Surrey) is an English stage and screen actor and writer, known as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017) and for Watchmen, See, Posh, and the 2026 de Gaulle film as Anthony Eden.

Tom Misteli

Tom Misteli (born 1966) is a Swiss-born cell biologist who studies genome organization in the cell nucleus and led the NCI Center for Cancer Research from 2016 to 2026.

Tom Mix

Tom Mix, born Thomas Edwin Mix, was an American actor who was the leading silent Western film star of the 1920s and reportedly Hollywood's highest-paid actor by 1928.

Tom Monaghan

Tom Monaghan (born 1937, Ann Arbor, Michigan), founder of Domino's Pizza, which he started as DomiNick's in Ypsilanti in 1960, built the 30-minute delivery chain to over 5,000 stores, owned the Detroit Tigers, and founded Legatus and Ave Maria University.

Tom Montgomery

Tom Montgomery (Thomas Brian Montgomery) is a Welsh Reform UK politician, Member of the Senedd for Clwyd since May 2026, formerly a Conservative Conwy county councillor elected in 2022 who defected to Reform UK in 2025.

Tom Morello

Tom Morello, born 1964 in New York, is the Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist known for toggle-switch DJ-scratch effects, the Arm the Homeless guitar, activism, The Nightwatchman, and the 2026 album Everyone Gets Everything They Want.

Tom Moss

Tom Moss is a Canadian-based molecular biologist, a professor at Université Laval since 1986, known for research on ribosomal RNA gene transcription in growth control and cancer.

Tom Muir

Tom W. Muir is a Scottish-born chemical biologist who holds a professorship of chemistry at Princeton University and is known for developing expressed protein ligation, a widely used protein engineering method.