List of Famous people named Thomas

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Sir Thomas Fairbairn, 2nd Baronet was an English industrialist and art collector.

Thomas Fersen is a French singer-songwriter.

Thomas Röwekamp is a German politician (CDU). Since 2007 he is chairman of CDU-faction in Bremen Senat. In the government of Henning Scherf, Röwekamp was Senator and under the government of Jens Böhrnsen vice-major of Bremen.

Thomas Shun-Kuei Chan is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. He was deputy minister of the Environmental Protection Administration between 20 May 2016 and 8 October 2018.

Thomas Lutze is a German politician. Born in Elsterwerda, Brandenburg, he represents The Left. Thomas Lutze has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland since 2009.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I. From 1632 to 1640 he was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where he established a strong authoritarian rule. Recalled to England, he became a leading advisor to the King, attempting to strengthen the royal position against Parliament. When Parliament condemned Wentworth to death, Charles reluctantly signed the death warrant and Wentworth was executed.

Thomas Fahrner is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Fahrner earned two medals bronze in the 200 m freestyle and silver in 4×200 m freestyle relay. He also set an Olympic record for the 400 m freestyle (3:50.91) in the B final. Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he earned another medal this time a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.

Thomas Gentner is a retired professional footballer who played as a left-sided defender and midfielder.

Thomas Gibson Nickerson was an American sailor and author. In 1819, when he was fourteen years old, Nickerson served as cabin boy on the whaleship Essex. On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale it was pursuing, and the crew spent three months at sea before the survivors were rescued. In 1876 he wrote The Loss of the Ship "Essex," an account of the ordeal and of his subsequent experiences at sea. The manuscript was lost until 1960, and was first published in 1984.