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Tom Murphy
Tom Murphy (1935–2018) was an Irish playwright from Tuam, County Galway, whose more than 20 plays, from A Whistle in the Dark (1961) onward, became mainstays of Irish theater.
Tom Murray (olympedia 100740)
Tom Murray (Thomas Blackwood Murray, 1877-1944), Scottish curler from Biggar; threw second stone for Great Britain's gold-medal team at the 1924 Winter Olympics; three-time unofficial world champion; RCCC president 1936-37.
Tom Murray (olympedia 135406)
Tom Murray (Thomas James Murray, born 1994, Blenheim, New Zealand) is a NZL rower, Olympedia 135406: gold in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, silver in the coxless four at Paris 2024, sixth in the eight at Rio 2016; distinct from the 1924 GBR curler and 1996 US rower of the same name.
Tom Nairn
Tom Nairn (1932–2023) was a Scottish political theorist, one of the most cited authorities on nationalism, whose 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain became a foundational text of the Scottish independence movement.
Tom Nolan (fighter)
Tom Nolan "Big Train" (born 2000) is an Australian UFC lightweight, 11-1, from Toowoomba, a former rugby league player who earned his contract via an 83-second DWCS knockout of Bogdan Grad in 2023.
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan (Thomas Patrick Noonan, 1951-2026) was an American character actor, playwright, and Sundance-winning director, the 6 ft 6 in villain of Manhunter, RoboCop 2, and Heat, and the voice of nearly everyone in Anomalisa.
Tom O'Connor (comedian)
Tom O'Connor (Thomas Patrick O'Connor, 1939-2021), Liverpool-born English stand-up comedian and game show host, won Opportunity Knocks three times and hosted Name That Tune, Crosswits, Gambit and The Zodiac Game.
Tom O'Mara
Tom O'Mara is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Senate, representing the 58th district and a former Chemung County District Attorney.
Tom Odell
Tom Odell (born 1990, Chichester) is a British piano-led singer-songwriter, BRITs Critics' Choice 2013 first male winner, whose debut Long Way Down topped the UK chart and whose single Another Love passed three billion Spotify streams.
Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) was a Finnish artist whose homoerotic leather-and-uniform drawings, first published in 1957 in Physique Pictorial, shaped gay male aesthetics; his Los Angeles foundation preserves over 2,000 original works.
Tom Oliverson
Tom Oliverson is an American politician and physician who serves as Majority Leader of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 130 in northwest Harris County as a Republican.
Tom Osborne
Tom Osborne (born 1937, Hastings, Nebraska) coached Nebraska football 1973-97, going 255-49-3 with national titles in 1994, 1995, and 1997; later a three-term U.S. congressman, Nebraska athletic director 2007-2013, and first living Nebraska Hall of Fame inductee.
Tom Owen (actor)
Tom Owen (Thomas William Stevenson Rowbotham, 1949–2022), British actor, son of Bill Owen; played Tom Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine (2000–2010, 93 episodes) and Bill Cowan in Freewheelers.
Tom Owen‐Hughes
Tom Owen-Hughes is a molecular biologist, professor of chromatin structure at the University of Dundee since 1998, known for work on ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes.
Tom P. Aufderheide
Tom P. Aufderheide is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist who directs the Resuscitation Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin and studies out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Tom Papa
Tom Papa (Thomas Papa Jr.) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for clean, observational comedy about family life and for touring as Jerry Seinfeld's opening act.
Tom Paris
Tom Paris (Thomas Eugene Paris) is the helmsman of Star Trek: Voyager, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, a reformed ex-Starfleet pilot and Maquis based on Nicholas Locarno, husband of B'Elanna Torres and father of Miral Paris.
Tom Parker (singer)
Tom Parker, Bolton-born English singer (died 30 March 2022, aged 33), member of the British-Irish boy band The Wanted; ten UK Top 10 singles including "All Time Low" and "Glad You Came"; died of stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosed October 2020.
Tom Parker Bowles
Tom Parker Bowles (born 1974), also Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles, British food writer, critic and broadcaster, son of Queen Camilla and godson of King Charles III; Mail on Sunday restaurant critic, MasterChef judge, author of Cooking and the Crown and Full English.
Tom Patton
Tom Patton is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio Senate representing the 24th district, known for sponsoring bills restricting revenue-generating traffic cameras.
Tom Payne (actor)
Tom Payne (born 1982, Chelmsford, Essex) is an English actor, not the Bristol casting director of the same name; known as Jesus on The Walking Dead, Malcolm Bright on Prodigal Son, and Rob Cole in The Physician.
Tom Pelphrey
Tom Pelphrey (Thomas J. Pelphrey, born 1982, Howell, New Jersey) is an American actor, Rutgers-trained, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for Guiding Light, known for Ozark's Ben Davis, Banshee, Iron Fist, Outer Range, and HBO's Task, for which he won the 2026 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Tom Pendergast
Tom Pendergast (1872-1945), "Boss Tom," ran the Jackson Democratic Club machine that controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, from about 1926 to 1939, delivering patronage, public works, and Harry Truman's Senate seat before a 1939 tax-evasion conviction ended his rule.
Tom Perez
Tom Perez, American lawyer and official, 26th U.S. Secretary of Labor (2013-2017), first Latino DNC chair (2017-2021), former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, later Biden's Intergovernmental Affairs director.
Tom Perriello
Tom Perriello is an American Democratic politician who represented Virginia's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2009 to 2011 and is the party's 2026 nominee for the seat.
Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta, born Thomas R. Perrotta in 1961, is an American novelist and screenwriter whose comic satires of suburban life include Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers.
Tom Petersson
Tom Petersson (born 1950, Rockford, Illinois) is Cheap Trick's founding bassist and inventor of the 12-string bass, first built by Hamer in 1977-78; left 1980-1987, Rock Hall 2016, Gretsch and Waterstone signature models.
Tom Petranoff
Tom Petranoff, born 1958 in Aurora, Illinois, is an American javelin thrower whose 99.72-meter 1983 world record led to the javelin's redesign; he later competed for South Africa and invented the TurboJav training javelin.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty (1950–2017) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Gainesville, Florida, frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their 1976 debut.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American rock band from Gainesville, Florida, formed from Mudcrutch; debut 1976 on Shelter, breakthrough Damn the Torpedoes (1979), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2002, 50th anniversary Origins box set.