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Teruo Nakamura (中村輝夫)
Teruo Nakamura (中村輝夫) was a Taiwanese soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army found on Morotai in November 1974, the last known Japanese holdout of World War II.
Tetsuya Yamagami (山上徹也)
Tetsuya Yamagami (山上徹也, born 1980) is the Japanese man convicted of assassinating former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade gun in Nara on 8 July 2022; sentenced to life in prison in January 2026, he has appealed.
Theodor Busse
Theodor Busse (1897–1986), German general of infantry; chief of staff of Army Group South under Manstein, commander of the Ninth Army at Seelow Heights and the Halbe breakout, later West German civil defense leader.
Theodor Eicke
Theodor Eicke (1892–1943) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, Dachau commandant, and Inspector of Concentration Camps who created the Nazi camp model, and commander of the SS Division Totenkopf until his death at Kharkov.
Theodore Hall
Theodore Hall (1925-1999), also MLAD, was an American physicist who, as the youngest Manhattan Project scientist at Los Alamos, passed Fat Man implosion-bomb and plutonium purification secrets to the USSR; Venona exposed him, but he was never prosecuted.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Theodore Roosevelt III, 1887-1944), eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was an Army brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient who landed in the first wave on Utah Beach on D-Day and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico, and Governor General of the Philippines.
Theodore Van Kirk
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk (1921–2014) was the navigator of the B-29 Enola Gay on the 6 August 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing mission and its last surviving crew member, a veteran of 58 combat missions.
Theodoros Grivas
Theodoros Grivas (Θεόδωρος Γρίβας, 1797–1862), also known as Theodorakis Grivas, was a Greek armatolos, general, and politician who fought in the 1821 Revolution and led the 1854 Epirus revolt.
Theraputtabhaya
Theraputtabhaya (ථෙරපුත්තාභය) is one of the ten giant warriors of King Dutthagamani in Sri Lankan chronicles, who fought 28 battles against Elara in the 2nd century BC before becoming a monk.
Thero Wheeler
Thero Wheeler (Thero Lavon Wheeler, 1945–2009) was an American prison militant who helped found the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1973, leaving it months later over its violent plans.
Thirty Comrades
The Thirty Comrades (ရဲဘော်သုံးကျိပ်) were thirty Burmese nationalist volunteers recruited by Aung San in 1941 who received Japanese military training and formed the core of the Burma Independence Army.
Thomas Carden
Thomas M. Carden Jr. is a U.S. Army National Guard general, first four-star Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2026), formerly Adjutant General of Georgia and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command.
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), Scottish-born British admiral and MP, expelled in the 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, who commanded the Chilean, Brazilian, and Greek navies in their wars of liberation and was later restored as a full admiral.
Thomas Crooks
Thomas Matthew Crooks (born 2003) was the 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at the July 13, 2024 Butler rally, firing eight shots from a rooftop before a Secret Service sniper killed him; no motive was identified.
Thomas G. Allan Jr.
Thomas G. Allan Jr. (born 1968, Belleville, Illinois) is a U.S. Coast Guard admiral and Vice Commandant since February 2026; former Coast Guard CFO, First District commander, and SOUTHCOM J3, Coast Guard Academy class of 1990.
Thomas G. Donlon
Thomas G. Donlon is a retired FBI official and counterterrorism specialist who served as interim NYPD Commissioner in 2024, having investigated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage (1719/1720–1787), British general, commander-in-chief in North America 1763–1775 and royal governor of Massachusetts 1774–1775; ordered the Concord expedition and the costly Battle of Bunker Hill.
Thomas Graves (admiral)
Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves (1725–1802), was a Royal Navy admiral whose defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 led to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
Thomas Hagan
Thomas Hagan, aka Talmadge Hayer and Mujahid Abdul Halim, convicted 1966 of Malcolm X's murder, caught at the scene, confessed, named four accomplices in 1977 affidavits, paroled 2010 after 44 years.
Thomas Hinman Moorer
Thomas Hinman Moorer was an American naval aviator and admiral who served as the 18th Chief of Naval Operations and the seventh Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443–1524), also Earl of Surrey, English magnate and soldier; won Flodden 1513 killing James IV, served as Lord High Treasurer 1501–1522, grandfather of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Thomas P. M. Barnett
Thomas P. M. Barnett is an American military geostrategist who developed the Core-Gap thesis and wrote The Pentagon's New Map (2004) while at the U.S. Naval War College.
Thomas Payne (soldier)
Thomas Patrick Payne is a United States Army sergeant major and Medal of Honor recipient who helped rescue 75 hostages from an ISIS prison in Hawija, Iraq, in 2015.
Thomas Picton
Sir Thomas Picton (1758–1815) was a Welsh soldier and first British governor of Trinidad, convicted of torture in 1806 and killed at Waterloo in 1815.
Thomas Troubridge
Sir Thomas Troubridge (c. 1758–1807) was a Royal Navy rear-admiral who led the line at Cape St Vincent and was lost at sea in 1807.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, 1762-1806), French Revolutionary general born enslaved in Saint-Domingue, father of novelist Alexandre Dumas; general from 1793, Army of the Alps, Egypt cavalry commander, imprisoned at Taranto.
Thorkell the Tall
Thorkell the Tall (Þorkell inn hávi), Danish viking leader, earl of East Anglia and regent under Cnut; ravaged England 1009–1012, served Æthelred from 1012, given East Anglia in 1017, vanishes after 1023.
Three-Fingered Jack
Three-Fingered Jack, born Jack Mansong, was an escaped Jamaican slave who led a band of runaways in the Blue Mountains until Maroon fighters killed him in January 1781.
Tibor Rubin
Tibor Rubin (1929-2015), Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and US Army corporal in the 8th Cavalry Regiment, Korean War POW who saved over 40 prisoners; only Holocaust survivor awarded the Medal of Honor, in 2005.
Tikka Khan (ٹکا خان)
Tikka Khan (ٹکا خان, 1915–2002), Pakistani general, first Chief of Army Staff (1972–76); Eastern Command commander and martial law administrator in East Pakistan, 1971, remembered as the 'Butcher of Bengal'.