List of Famous people named Thomas

Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.

Thomas William Wilkinson was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle from 1889 to 1909.

Thomas Gilbert was an 18th-century British mariner.

Thomas Le Boteller, or Thomas Butler, nicknamed Thomas Bacach or Thomas the Lame, was the illegitimate son of the 3rd Earl of Ormond, and a leading political figure in early fifteenth century Ireland. He held the offices of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Deputy of Ireland and Prior of Kilmainham. In his own lifetime he was a highly unpopular statesman, who was accused of treason. He is now chiefly remembered as a professional soldier, who was present at the Siege of Rouen in 1418–19. He had previously fought in the sanguinary conflict known as the Battle of Bloody Bank near Dublin in 1402.

Thomas of Metsoph (1378–1446) was an Armenian cleric and chronicler who left an account of Timur’s invasions of the Caucasus (1386–1403). What we know of Thomas's life comes from a biography written by his student Kirakos Banaser and from a number of 15th-century colophons.

Thomas Egerton was a bookseller and publisher in Whitehall, London c. 1750–1830. With his brother and business partner John Egerton he took over the enterprise established by John Millan. For some years Egerton's office stood on Charing Cross. Books published included works by Jane Austen.

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo is considered the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka, has been translated into English and other languages.

Thomas Bates was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.