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Thomas Wade Landry (September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American professional football player and coach. He was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL), a position he held for 29 seasons. During his coaching career, he created many new formations and methods, such as the now popular 4–3 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he built during his tenure with the Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years from 1960 to 1988 as the coach of one team is an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive winning seasons, which is considered to be his most impressive professional accomplishment.

Thomas Edgar Martin (born May 21, 1970) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He batted and threw left-handed.

Tom McCamus (born July 25, 1955) 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.

Thomas McHale (February 25, 1963 – May 25, 2008) was an American football player. He played professionally as an offensive guard in the National Football League (NFL) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1987–1992), Philadelphia Eagles (1993–1994) and Miami Dolphins (1995). Born in Gaithersburg, Maryland, he attended Gaithersburg High School and then Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania before playing college football at Maryland (1983) and Cornell (1986), graduating from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Playing as a defensive end, he was named all-Ivy League and first-team All-American in 1986, and was runner-up for Ivy League Player of the Year. He was named to the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993.

Thomas James Mison (born 23 July 1982) is an English film, television, and theatre actor, voice artist, and writer. He has had leading and supporting roles in a variety of British theatre, television, and radio productions, as well as independent and mainstream studio films and film shorts. He is best known for his starring role as Ichabod Crane on the Fox series Sleepy Hollow, which ran from September 2013 to March 2017. He played Fainall in the Donmar Warehouse's 2018 production of William Congreve's The Way of the World and also worked in Watchmen portraying the clones of Mr. Phillips and the Game Warden.

Thomas Oliver Neville (born August 12, 1943) is a former American football offensive tackle. He played for the American Football League's Boston Patriots from 1965 through 1969, and with the National Football League's Patriots, Denver Broncos, and New York Giants. He is a member of the Patriots All-1960s Team.

Thomas John Nomina (born December 27, 1941) is a former American football defensive tackle in the American Football League who played for the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins. He played college football for the Miami RedHawks. He was drafted in the National Football League by the Los Angeles Rams but decided on a career in the American Football League instead.

Tom Orosz (born September 26, 1959) is a former punter with a 4-year career in the National Football League from 1981 to 1984. He was an All-American at Ohio State. * v * t * e

Willis Thomas Owen (born September 1, 1952) is a former American football quarterback who played in ten National Football League (NFL) seasons from 1974–1982 for the San Francisco 49ers, the New England Patriots, the Washington Redskins, and the New York Giants. He played college football at Wichita State University and was drafted in the thirteenth round of the 1974 NFL Draft.

Thomas Marian Paciorek (/pəˈtʃɔːrɛk/ pə-CHOR-ek; born November 2, 1946) is a former outfielder and first baseman who spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1970–1975), Atlanta Braves (1976–1978), Seattle Mariners (1978–1981), Chicago White Sox (1982–1985), New York Mets (1985) and Texas Rangers (1986–1987). He appeared twice in the postseason, with the National League (NL) champion Dodgers in 1974 and the American League (AL) West-winning White Sox in 1983.

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American musician who was the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch, was a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and had success as a solo artist. Petty died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 66, one week after the end of the Heartbreakers' 40th Anniversary Tour in 2017.

Thomas Arthur Poquette (born October 30, 1951) is a retired American outfielder who spent seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Kansas City Royals (1973, 1976–79, 1982), Boston Red Sox (1979, 1981) and Texas Rangers (1981).

Thomas Reardon Porell (born September 23, 1964) is a former American football nose tackle who played in one game for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) in 1987. Porell also was with the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers, but did not play with them. Porell later became defensive coordinator at Providence College and is now a youth football coach.

Thomas Ragland (born June 16, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player who appeared in 102 games in Major League Baseball, mostly as a second baseman, for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers from 1971 to 1972, and the Cleveland Indians in 1973. He also played for seven different minor league clubs in parts of nine seasons spanning 1965–1974. In his 102 MLB games, Ragland collected 61 total hits, with nine doubles and one triple. He was credited with 14 runs batted in and batted .231 lifetime.

Tom Ramsey (born July 9, 1961) is a former professional American football quarterback, who played five seasons in the NFL for the New England Patriots and one season for the Indianapolis Colts. Earlier he played for the Los Angeles Express and the Oakland Invaders of the USFL. Ramsey graduated from Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, Calif., in 1979. When Ramsey was quarterback for Kennedy, the quarterback at rival high school Granada Hills was John Elway. Ramsey was the last quarterback of the New England Patriots to wear jersey #12 prior to the legendary Tom Brady.

Raoul Thomas Reynolds Jr. (born April 11, 1949) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played for the New England Patriots and Chicago Bears. He played college football for the San Diego State Aztecs.

Tom Richardson (born October 15, 1944) is a former NFL football player with the Boston Patriots during the 1970s, as a wide receiver.

Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage and film actor and director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the first American film adaptation of A Christmas Carol (1908), and directed one of the first motion pictures ever made in Hollywood. After directing scores of silent films, including the first film to be released by Universal Pictures, Ricketts became a prominent character actor.

Thomas James Robson (January 15, 1946 – April 20, 2021) was an American Major League Baseball player, coach and author. He played first baseman and designated hitter for two seasons for the Texas Rangers. He is author of The Hitting Edge.

Thomas Benjamin Savage (born April 26, 1990) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Rutgers, Arizona, and Pittsburgh and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

Thomas Joseph Sherman (born December 5, 1945) was an American football quarterback for the American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals (1968), Boston Patriots (1968–69), and Buffalo Bills (1969). In two seasons in the AFL, he played in 19 games and completed 92 of 228 passes for 1,219 Yards, 13 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. He also had 58 rushing attempts for 468 yards and 1 touchdown.

Thomas Dorn Stincic (born November 24, 1946) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints. He played college football, principally as a linebacker, at the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1968. Remembered as a loving father, husband, grandfather, brother and uncle, he is in the hearts of all those that loved him.

Thomas Virgil Sturdivant (April 28, 1930 – February 28, 2009), nicknamed "Snake", was an American pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He threw a curveball and a knuckleball, among other pitches. He batted left-handed but threw right-handed.

Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (born 5 December 1985) is an English actor with performances in Being Julia, Like Minds, and The Boat That Rocked. In 2013, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the Broadway play Orphans, and in 2020, he received another nomination in the same category for his role in Sea Wall/A Life. Since 2022, he has starred as the lead character, Dream of The Endless / Lord Morpheus, in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman.