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Tamil Jains
Tamil Jains (Samanars, Tamil Samaṇam) are Digambara Jains native to Tamil Nadu for over 2,000 years, numbering 25,000–35,000, centered on Mel Sithamoor, with major Tamil literary works attributed to them.
Tamil Muslim
Tamil Muslims: Tamil-speaking Muslim communities of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Sri Lanka, including the Marakkayar, Labbai, and Rawther groups, tracing their origins to Arab traders who settled Coromandel Coast ports from the eighth century.
Tamils (தமிழர்)
Tamils (தமிழர்), a Dravidian-speaking people of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, homeland Tamilakam, Sangam Age Chera-Chola-Pandya history, about 77 million worldwide, diglossic Tamil language.
Tanti
Tanti (Tatwa, Tantubaya) is a Hindu weaver caste of Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha, from Sanskrit Tantubaya (weaver). Traditionally handloom weavers with unusually high Bengal status, now classified OBC in most states but denied SC status in Bihar.
Tar Heel
Tar Heel is the nickname for North Carolinians and the Tar Heel State, rooted in the pine-derived naval stores industry; a Civil War-era insult flipped by soldiers into a badge of state pride, earliest attested in an 1863 diary.
Tara Browne
Tara Browne, Irish Guinness heir and Swinging London socialite, friend of the Beatles and Rolling Stones; died 18 December 1966 aged 21 in a Lotus Elan crash, inspiring "A Day in the Life".
Taranchi
Taranchi: sedentary Muslim farmers of the Ili valley (Kulja), about 45,000 of whom, with 5,000 Dungans, resettled in Russian Semirechye in 1881–1884 under the Treaty of Saint Petersburg; ancestors of Kazakhstan's Uyghurs.
Tatar (disambiguation)
Tatar (disambiguation): term for a Turkic tribe in the Mongol army (attested in Persian from the 1200s), later a Russian blanket label for Turkic Muslim peoples, and today distinct groups, Volga, Crimean, Siberian, Lipka Tatars, plus the Tatar language of Kipchak Turkic.
Tatar (term)
Tatar: historical ethnonym first naming a Mongolic people of eastern Mongolia (Orkhon inscriptions, 8th century), then an exonym for the Mongols, and today the self-name of the Crimean and Kazan Tatars.
Tatars (татарлар)
Tatars (татарлар), also called the Tatar people, are a Turkic-speaking people of Eastern Europe and Siberia who form the largest ethnic minority in Russia, mainly in Tatarstan.
Tatiana Santo Domingo
Tatiana Santo Domingo, heiress of the Colombian Santo Domingo brewing dynasty and wife of Andrea Casiraghi of Monaco; co-founder of ethical fashion brand Muzungu Sisters; Forbes-estimated net worth around $2 billion.
Tausūg people
Tausug (Suluk) people, meaning People of Sulu, are the dominant Muslim ethnolinguistic group of Jolo and the Sulu Archipelago, historically ruling the Sultanate of Sulu; their language is distinct from Sama-Bajau and closest to Butuanon.
Tboli people
Tboli (T'boli, Tagabili, TauSebu), an animist indigenous Lumad people of highland southwestern Mindanao centered on Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, known for dream-inspired t'nalak abaca weaving, the Todbulol epic, and ancestral domain rights.
Team
Team: a bounded set of two or more people working interdependently toward shared goals, distinct from a mere group; defined by membership, interdependence, shared goals, dynamics, and organizational context, with effectiveness studied through cohesion, composition, and, increasingly, virtual and hybrid collaboration.
Team Water
#TeamWater is a creator-led crowdfunding campaign by MrBeast and Mark Rober that raised over $40 million in August 2025 to provide clean water to 2 million people for decades, with WaterAid as lead partner.
Teenager (word)
Teenager: English word for a person aged 13 to 19, from the -teen numerals; first recorded 1913 (Merriam-Webster), print debut "teen-agers" 1941, popularized in the postwar 1940s-1950s youth market, distinct from WHO's 10-19 adolescent definition.
Teke people
The Teke (Tio, Bateke, Anziku) are a Bantu-speaking people of the Republic of the Congo, western DRC, and Gabon, known for the pre-colonial Tio (Makoko) kingdom at Pool Malebo, trade intermediation, and their butti power figures and kidumu masks.
Teli
Teli (तेली) is an occupational caste of oil-pressers and oil traders across India, Nepal, and Pakistan, Hindu or Muslim (Muslim Telis called Roshandaar or Teli Malik), named from Sanskrit taila (oil), now mostly classified OBC.
Telugu people
Telugu people, known as Andhra people or తెలుగువారు, are an ethnolinguistic group of southern India defined by the Telugu language, concentrated in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Ten Lost Tribes
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: northern Israelite tribes deported by Assyria after the fall of Samaria in 722 BCE and believed lost. Spawned a global myth of hidden descendants, from Arzareth and the Sambatyon to Jewish Indian and Pashtun claims.
Ten Pound Poms
Ten Pound Poms: Britons who migrated to Australia (and New Zealand) after WWII under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, £10 adult fare, children free, two-year stay required; over 1.5 million migrated 1945–1982.
Tenggerese people
Tenggerese, also called Wong Tengger or Tengger Javanese, are about 90,000 Hindu Javanese highlanders around Mount Bromo, East Java, preserving a Majapahit-era priesthood, an archaic Javanese dialect, and the annual Yadnya Kasada crater-offering rite.
Tengku Zatashah
Tengku Zatashah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, Selangor princess, daughter of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah; social advocate behind #SayNo2Plastic and #ZeroFoodWastage (2016), L'Oréal Paris alumna, InNature Berhad director, Legion d'Honneur recipient.
Tent city
Tent city: a settlement of tents or improvised shelters occupied by people experiencing homelessness, also called homeless encampment. Distinguishes sanctioned tent cities from unsanctioned encampments, traces roots to Hoovervilles, and covers Grants Pass-era clearances and housing-first responses.
Teochew people (潮州人)
Teochew people (潮州人, 潮汕人), a Han Chinese subgroup of the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong speaking the Southern Min Teochew dialect; noted for the Siam-centered diaspora of about 30 million, the 香叻暹汕 trade network, and a distinct ritual-craft culture.
Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias
Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma (born 6 February 1937), Spanish princess of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, first cousin of Juan Carlos I, sister of the previous Duke of Calabria, and grandmother of Teresa Urquijo.
Teutons
Teutons (Teutones, Teutoni; Greek Teutones): ancient Germanic tribe of Jutland allied with the Cimbri, destroyed by Marius at Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC; name later a Latin term for Germans, source of deutsch-related words.
Thai Americans
Thai Americans: U.S. residents identifying as Thai, about 340,000 in 2023, the 10th-largest Asian origin group; mostly post-1965 immigrants concentrated in Los Angeles, with Theravada Buddhist temples as community centers.
Thai Chinese (泰国华人)
Thai Chinese (泰国华人) are people in Thailand of Chinese ancestry from five dialect groups, Teochiu, Hakka, Hainanese, Cantonese, Hokkien, who have undergone unusually thorough assimilation into Thai society through intermarriage, education, and language shift.
Thai people
Thai people (ชาวไทย): Tai-speaking majority of Thailand, comprising Central, Northeastern (Isan/Thai-Lao), Northern (Khon Muang), and Southern Thai groups, descended from migrants from southern China and Yunnan, distinct from Sino-Thai and Malay Muslim minorities.