List of Famous people named Thomas

Thomas Couture was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book would later be adapted into director Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper was an English peer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Isle of Wight from 1661 to 1667 and as the governor of Virginia from 1677 to 1683.

Thomas Lister (1688–1745), of Gisburne Park, Yorkshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1745.

Thomas Jeffery Parker F.R.S. was a zoologist who worked in New Zealand.