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Tom Williams

Tom Williams (1940-1992), American ice hockey forward, won gold with Team USA at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics and became one of the first Americans with a long NHL career, finishing with 192 goals and 327 assists.

Tom Willis

Tom Willis is a genomics entrepreneur and Stanford-trained physicist who became CEO of Arima Genomics in June 2025, having earlier founded ParAllele BioScience and Sequenta, the developer of ClonoSEQ.

Tom Wills

Tom Wills (1835-1880), Australian cricketer and founder of Australian rules football; wrote the 1858 Bell's Life letter, co-drafted the 1859 Melbourne FC rules, coached Aboriginal cricketers, survived the 1861 Cullin-la-Ringo massacre, died by suicide.

Tom Wilson (ice hockey)

Tom Wilson, Toronto-born right wing for the Washington Capitals, drafted 16th overall in 2012; 2018 Stanley Cup winner, 2024-25 career-best 65 points, 2026 Team Canada Olympian, known for physical play and suspensions.

Tom Wilson (investor)

Tom Wilson is a venture capital investor and Partner at the European seed firm Seedcamp, which he joined in 2014 after working as a corporate and VC lawyer in London.

Tom Wilson (music producer)

Tom Wilson (Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr., 1931-1978) was an American record producer, Harvard-educated, who founded Transition jazz label, produced Bob Dylan's electric turn and "Like a Rolling Stone," electrified Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence," and produced the Velvet Underground and Mothers of Invention debuts.

Tom Wlaschiha

Tom Wlaschiha (Thomas Wlaschiha, born 1973 in Dohna, Saxony) is a German actor known for Jaqen H'ghar in Game of Thrones, Dmitri "Enzo" Antonov in Stranger Things 4, and Hagen Forster in Das Boot; he speaks six languages and self-dubs his English roles.

Tom Woiwode

Tom Woiwode, Ph.D., is a biotechnology venture capitalist and company builder who has been with Versant Ventures since 2002 and a Managing Director there since 2014.

Tom Wolf

Tom Wolf (born 1948) is the Democratic businessman who served as Pennsylvania's 47th governor, 2015–2023, defeating Tom Corbett in 2014; known for record vetoes, Clean Slate, death-penalty reprieves, and RGGI.

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018), American journalist and novelist, founder of New Journalism; wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities; famous for white suits and exclamation-marked prose.

Tom Wopat

Tom Wopat (born 1951, Lodi, Wisconsin) is an American actor and singer, Luke Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard (CBS, 1979-1985), a two-time Tony-nominated Broadway performer, and a jazz and country recording artist.

Tom Wu

Tom Wu (吴, born 1972, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born British actor and wushu competitor; not Daniel Wu. Known as Hundred Eyes in Marco Polo, Lord George in The Gentlemen, and roles in Skyfall, Kick-Ass 2, Havoc, and 3 Body Problem.

Tom Yawkey

Tom Yawkey (1903-1976), born Thomas Yawkey Austin, owned the Boston Red Sox for 43 years from 1933, winning pennants in 1946, 1967, and 1975; his legacy is marked by the team being the last to integrate.

Tom Young (Ohio politician)

Tom Young is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 37th district, which covers southern Montgomery County, and chairs the House Workforce and Higher Education Committee.

Tom Young (South Carolina politician)

Tom Young is an American Republican politician and Aiken lawyer who served in the South Carolina House from 2009 to 2012 and now represents the 24th district in the state Senate.

Tom yum

Tom yum (ต้มยำ), also tom yum kung, is Thailand's hot-and-sour herb soup of lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves with prawns; UNESCO-inscribed in 2024, with clear (nam sai) and creamy (nam khon) versions.

Tom yum kung (ต้มยำกุ้ง)

Tom yum kung (ต้มยำกุ้ง, Tomyum Kung) is Thailand's hot-and-sour prawn soup of lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves, with clear (nam sai) and creamy (nam khon) versions; inscribed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2024.

Tom Zanetti

Tom Zanetti (Thomas Byron Courtney, born 1989, Leeds) is a British DJ, rapper, singer and producer; known for "You Want Me" feat. Sadie Ama (UK No. 22, 2016), "Didn't Know" (No. 14, 2021), Insomnia club night and Sleepin Is Cheatin promotions company.

Tom Ziegler

Tom Ziegler (1945–2015) was a Danish-born theoretical inorganic chemist and professor at the University of Calgary, known for density functional theory methods for transition metals and Ziegler–Rauk energy decomposition analysis.

Tom-Usinskaya power station

Tom-Usinskaya power station (Томь-Усинская ГРЭС, Tom-Usinskaya GRES) is a coal-fired condensation power station on the Tom River in Myski, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, and the largest power station in Kuzbass.

Tom-Yum-Goong

Tom-Yum-Goong (ต้มยำกุ้ง, The Protector) is a 2005 Thai martial arts film by Prachya Pinkaew starring Tony Jaa as Kham, who fights a Sydney crime syndicate to recover his stolen elephants; Thailand's top-grossing film of 2005.

Tom, Dick and Harry

Tom, Dick and Harry is an English idiom for ordinary, undistinguished people, common since at least 1730, from familiar nicknames for Thomas, Richard, and Henry.

Tom's Diner

"Tom's Diner" is Suzanne Vega's 1981 a cappella song about Tom's Restaurant, Broadway and 112th Street, New York. DNA's unauthorized 1990 remix hit number 5 on Billboard, and the a cappella original served as Karlheinz Brandenburg's benchmark for MP3 compression, earning Vega the nickname Mother of the MP3.

Tom's Restaurant

Tom's Restaurant is a family-run Greek-American diner at 2880 Broadway in Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the exterior of Monk's Café on Seinfeld and Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner."

Toma Mons

Toma Mons is an 80-km-diameter mountain (mons) on Venus at 12.9°S, 232°E, in quad v39, adopted by the IAU in 2006 and named for a Tibetan goddess of intelligence and creativity.

Toma Simionov

Toma Simionov (born 1955) is a Romanian sprint canoeist who won two Olympic gold medals in the C2 1,000 m, at Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, paddling with Ivan Patzaichin.

Toma Vučić Perišić

Toma Vučić Perišić (Тома Вучић Перишић) was a Serbian politician and military commander of the Serbian Uprisings era, a leading Defender of the Constitution famous for his demagogic skill.

Toma Zdravković

Toma Zdravković (Тома Здравковић) was a Serbian folk singer-songwriter, born in 1938, who performed for decades in the kafanas of Yugoslavia and sold over a million records.

Tomadjan

Tomadjan (Tomaǰān, Tomājān) is a village and Iron Age cemetery site in the mountains south of Amlash, Gilan, northern Iran, a findspot of Amlash-type material within the Marlik culture, recorded in the Barrington Atlas and Pleiades.

Tomahawk

The BGM-109 Tomahawk is an American long-range subsonic cruise missile built by Raytheon that flies at extremely low altitude to strike defended targets from ships, submarines, and ground launchers, first used in combat in 1991.