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Thomas King
Topics referred to by the same term
Thomas King or Tom King may refer to:
01Politicians
- Thomas King (died 1688), English merchant and politician
- Thomas King (died 1725), member of parliament for Queenborough, son of the above
- T. Butler King (1800-1864), American politician from Georgia
- SS Thomas B. King, a Liberty ship
- Thomas King (New Zealand politician) (1821-1893), New Zealand politician
- Thomas King (Australian politician) (1833-1886), South Australian minister of education, 1878-1881
- Thomas King (Canadian politician) (1879-1972), merchant, farmer and politician in British Columbia, Canada
- Thomas R. King (fl. 1943-44), chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
- Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater (born 1933), British Conservative politician
- Tom King (Mississippi politician) (born 1947), Mississippi transportation commissioner, former state senator
02Sports
- Thomas King (boxer) (1835-1888), English boxer, heavyweight champion of England
- Tom King (basketball) (1924-2015), American professional basketball player
- Tom King (footballer, born 1995), Wales international football goalkeeper
- Tom King (footballer, born 2006), English football forward
- Tom King (sailor) (born 1973), Australian sailing gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Tom King (American football) (1895-1972), American college football and basketball player and coach
03Others
- Thomas Joseph King (army officer) (1891-1971), New Zealand army officer
- Tom King (highwayman) (died 1737), English highwayman
- Thomas King (actor) (1730-1805), English actor, theatre manager and dramatist
- Thomas A. King (1921-2012), rear admiral and first graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
- Thomas Starr King (1824-1864), American Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War
- Thomas King (astronomer) (1858-1916), New Zealand astronomer
- Thomas King (botanist) (1834-1896), Scottish botanist
- Thomas C. King (c. 1847-1904), one of the first Black settlers in Oregon
- Thomas Joseph King (1921-2000), American biologist
- Thomas J. King Jr. (1925-1994), American educator and Shakespearean scholar
- Thomas M. King (1929-2009), American Jesuit priest and scholar of theology and philosophy at Georgetown University
- Thomas King (merchant), British merchant and privateer
- Thomas King (novelist) (born 1943), Canadian novelist and broadcaster
- Thomas King (slave trader), British slave-trader
- Thomas Wilkinson King (1809-1847), English pathologist and anatomist
- Tom King (musician) (1942-2011), songwriter, founding member of the 1960s rock band The Outsiders
- Tom King (writer) (born 1978), novelist and comic book writer
- Harry Balk or Tom King (1925-2016), American record producer and songwriter
04Fictional people
- Tom King (Emmerdale), a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Thomas King (Emmerdale), a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
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