List of Famous people named Tom

Name Tom is among the most common names in USA, Canada. Often it's a shorthand for Thomas. Similar names: Thomas, Tommy, Thom, Tomi, Tomoya, Tomie, Tomoe, Tommie, Tomoa, Tomy, Thommi, Tomio, Tommi, Tome, Thommy, Thomy, Toma, Thoma. Here are some famous Toms:

Tom Egeland

First Name Tom
Last Name Egeland
Born on July 8, 1959 (age 67)

Tom Egeland is a Norwegian author. His great-grandfather was Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger, one of the pioneer authors of popular literature in Norway. Egeland's novels are published in 24 languages. His most famous novel is Sirkelens ende, published in English under the title Relic, which deals with several of the same topics as The Da Vinci Code. Egeland's book was published in 2001, two years before The Da Vinci Code.

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Tom Bower

Ralph Thomas Bower
First Name Tom
Last Name Bower
Born on January 3, 1938 (age 88)

Tom Bower is an American actor. He has appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles, including Die Hard 2 and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. He appeared in Chris Chan Lee's 2006 film Undoing.

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Tom McCamus

First Name Tom
Last Name McCamus
Born on July 25, 1955 (age 70)
Born in Canada, Manitoba

Tom McCamus is a Canadian film and theatre actor. He is most widely known for his works on the television show Mutant X and drama film Room.

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Tom Schulman

First Name Tom
Last Name Schulman
Born on October 20, 1950 (age 75)

Thomas H. Schulman is an American screenwriter best known for his semi-autobiographical screenplay Dead Poets Society. The film won the Best Screenplay Academy Award in 1989, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director.

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Tom Richmond

Thomas Julian Richmond
First Name Tom
Last Name Richmond
Born on January 18, 1950 (age 76)

Thomas Richmond is an American cinematographer who has worked in the film industry since the mid-1980s. His first major feature film as cinematographer was Stand and Deliver (1988), and by the time he shot for A Midnight Clear (1992), he had settled into working with different directors with ease. Richmond described his experience, "All my films look different because they're not my visions; they're my reflections of the directors' visions." In 1998, he said he was most proud of his work on Little Odessa (1994), for which he was nominated an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. For Right At Your Door (2006), he won the Excellence in Cinematography Award (Dramatic) at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

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Tom Golisano

First Name Tom
Last Name Golisano
Born on November 14, 1941 (age 84)
Net Worth $4.2B

Blase Thomas Golisano is an American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder of Paychex, which offers payroll and human resources services to businesses. Golisano also owns Greenlight Networks, a fiber internet provider based in Rochester, New York. He owned the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League from 2003 to 2011. Golisano unsuccessfully ran for Governor of New York as a third-party candidate in 1994, 1998, and 2002. As of 2020, Golisano had a net worth of $4.2 billion.

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Tom Duff

First Name Tom
Last Name Duff
Born on December 8, 1952 (age 73)
Born in Canada, Ontario

Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff is a computer programmer.

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Tom Verica

First Name Tom
Last Name Verica
Born on May 13, 1964 (age 62)

Thomas Verica is an American actor, television director, and producer, best known for his role as Jack Pryor in the NBC drama American Dreams (2002-2005). As director, he is known for Shonda Rhimes' dramas. From 2012 to 2018, Verica served as co-executive producer of Scandal, and in 2014 he returned to acting in How to Get Away with Murder, playing Sam Keating.

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Tom Fährmann

First Name Tom
Last Name Fährmann
Born on May 24, 1956 (age 70)
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Tom Gordon

Thomas Flynn Gordon, nicknamed "Flash", is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals (1988–1995), Boston Red Sox (1996–1999), Chicago Cubs (2001–02), Houston Astros (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003), New York Yankees (2004–05), Philadelphia Phillies (2006–2008), and Arizona Diamondbacks (2009). In 1998, he won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award and led the American League (AL) in saves and games finished. In 1998-99, Gordon set a then-MLB record with 54 consecutive saves.

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