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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (album)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976), the band's debut album on Shelter Records, produced by Denny Cordell, featuring Breakdown and American Girl; slow US sales, UK breakthrough in 1977.

Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips, born Tommy Lee Phillips, was an American paleobotanist at the University of Illinois who reconstructed Pennsylvanian coal-swamp vegetation from coal balls and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Tom Pidcock

Tom Pidcock (born 1999, Leeds) is an English cyclist for Pinarello-Q36.5, two-time Olympic XCO champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), cyclo-cross and MTB world champion, and 2022 Alpe d'Huez Tour stage winner.

Tom Pollock

Tom Pollock refers to two Olympians: American rower Thomas Elmer Pollock III (born 1943), 7th in the 1964 Tokyo coxed four, later a lawyer and novelist, and Canadian defenseman Thomas Allen Pollock (1925–1994), 1952 Oslo ice hockey gold medalist.

Tom Ponting

Tom Ponting is a Canadian former butterfly swimmer, born in 1965 in Montréal, who medaled at three consecutive Olympics: silver in 1984 and 1988, bronze in 1992.

Tom Poston

Tom Poston (Thomas Gordon Poston, 1921–2007), American comic actor and 1959 Emmy winner as Steve Allen's man-on-the-street amnesiac; played George Utley on Newhart and Bickley on Mork & Mindy; married Suzanne Pleshette in 2001; died April 30, 2007, in Los Angeles.

Tom Preston-Werner

Tom Preston-Werner is an American software developer and entrepreneur who co-founded GitHub, acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, and created Jekyll, Semantic Versioning, and TOML.

Tom Price

Tom Price (Thomas Steele Price) is an American rower who won Olympic gold in the men's coxless pairs at the 1952 Helsinki Games with Charles Logg.

Tom Price (American politician)

Tom Price (born 1954, Lansing, Michigan) is a Republican orthopedic surgeon, former Georgia state senate majority leader, six-term US House member for Georgia's 6th district, and the 23rd HHS Secretary who resigned in September 2017 over chartered-flight travel costs.

Tom Prichard

Tom Prichard, "Doctor of Desire" Tom Prichard or Dr. Tom, is a Texan retired wrestler and trainer: Heavenly Bodies tag champion in SMW, Zip of the Bodydonnas, and head of WWE developmental, training The Rock, Kurt Angle, and Edge.

Tom Pryce

Tom Pryce (Thomas Maldwyn Pryce, 1949-1977), Welsh Formula One driver for Token and Shadow, 1975 Race of Champions winner and British GP pole sitter, killed at the 1977 South African Grand Prix after striking marshal Frederik Jansen van Vuuren.

Tom Ransley

Tom Ransley (Thomas Matthew Ransley, born 1985 in Ashford, Kent) is a retired British rower who won gold in the men's eight at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Tom Renaud

Tom Renaud, born 2000 in Ploemeur, is a French defensive midfielder from the FC Lorient academy who played for Cholet and Versailles in the National before joining Heart of Midlothian in 2026.

Tom Reuveny

Tom Reuveny (born 2000, Ramat Gan) is an Israeli iQFOiL windsurfer, RS:X world champion 2019 and 2020, who won the first Olympic iQFOiL gold at Paris 2024, coached by Gal Fridman.

Tom Ridge

Tom Ridge (born 1945) is a Republican politician, Vietnam veteran, former six-term U.S. congressman, two-term Governor of Pennsylvania (1995–2001), and first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2003–2005).

Tom Riley

Tom Riley, or Thomas E. Riley, is an American insurance executive who co-founded the brokerage AssuredPartners in 2011, serving as president and chief operating officer before becoming chief executive officer in 2021.

Tom Ripley

Tom Ripley is Patricia Highsmith's amoral con artist and murderer, introduced in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) and continued across the five-novel Ripliad, adapted on screen by Alain Delon, Matt Damon, John Malkovich, and Andrew Scott.

Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins (Thomas Eugene Robbins, 1932 to 2025) was an American novelist whose comic countercultural novels, including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, drew a cult following from the 1970s.

Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts (1856–1931), English-born Australian painter of the Heidelberg School, known for Shearing the rams, Bailed up, the 1901 Big Picture, and proposing a national portrait gallery.

Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson (born 1950, Cambridge) is a British singer-songwriter, bassist, and BBC 6 Music presenter whose Tom Robinson Band scored UK hits with "2-4-6-8 Motorway" and "Glad to Be Gay".

Tom Rogic

Tom Rogic (Tomas Rogic), Australian attacking midfielder born in Canberra to Serbian parents. Central Coast Mariners, Celtic (46 goals in 273 matches, 16 trophies), Melbourne Victory loan, West Bromwich Albion; 53 Socceroos caps, 10 goals; retired October 2023 aged 30.

Tom Rosenthal (actor)

Tom Rosenthal (Thomas Alan Smith Rosenthal, born 1988) is an English comedian and actor, Jonny Goodman in Friday Night Dinner and Marcus in Plebs, distinct from the singer-songwriter Tom Rosenthal born 1986.

Tom Rotherham-Winqvist

Tom Rotherham-Winqvist (born 1972) is a British-Canadian private markets investor who co-founded Featherlight Capital in London in 2024, after leading European value creation at Wafra and the BT Pension Scheme.

Tom S. Lee

Tom S. Lee, also known as Tom Stewart Lee, is a retired American judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Tom Sandberg

Tom Sandberg (born 1955, Mo i Rana) is a Norwegian Nordic combined skier, Olympic gold medalist at Sarajevo 1984 and world champion at Oslo 1982; nine-time Norwegian champion, 1974 Holmenkollen winner, and 1983/84 World Cup overall champion.

Tom Sandoval

Tom Sandoval is an American reality TV personality, musician, and bar owner, an original Vanderpump Rules cast member whose 2023 affair with Raquel Leviss, dubbed Scandoval, made him widely known as a reality TV villain.

Tom Savage (American football)

Tom Savage (born 1990, Springfield, PA) is a former NFL quarterback, 2014 fourth-round pick by Houston, who played college ball at Rutgers and Pitt, started nine NFL games (2-7, 72.5 rating), and ended his career with Detroit in 2019.

Tom Savini

Tom Savini (born 1946, Pittsburgh) is an American special make-up effects artist, actor, stuntman, and director, the 'Godfather of Gore' behind Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, and Day of the Dead, and founder of a makeup effects school.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's fictional boy protagonist, introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and recurring in Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective; a mischievous, imaginative Missouri boy based on a composite of three boys Twain knew.

Tom Sawyer (song)

"Tom Sawyer" is a 1981 song by Canadian rock band Rush, opening track and first single of Moving Pictures; lyrics by Neil Peart and Pye Dubois, 4/4 verses with 7/8 solo sections, and Rush's signature song.