Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

39103 persons found

Thomas More

English politician, author and philosopher (1478–1535)

Thomas Mun

b. 1571

English economist (1571–1641)

Thomas Müntzer

German preacher and theologian (c. 1489 – 1525)

Thomas N. Heffron

American film director

Thomas N'Kono

b. 1956

Cameroonian footballer

Thomas Nagel

b. 1937

American philosopher (born 1937)

Thomas Newcomen

English inventor, preacher and ironmonger

Thomas of Bosnia

Bosnian king

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk

b. 1300

English prince and nobleman (1300–1338)

Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds

English statesman

Thomas P. Grosvenor

American politician

Thomas P. Salmon

b. 1932

American politician (1932–2025)

Thomas Paine

American philosopher and author (1737–1809)

Thomas Palaiologos

Despot of the Morea from 1428 to 1460

Thomas Pearson (British Army officer, born 1914)

b. 1914

British Army general (1914–2019)

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

b. 1693

Prime Minister of Great Britain (1754–1756; 1757–1762)

Thomas Pelly

b. 1902

American politician (1902–1973)

Thomas Pennant

b. 1726

Welsh naturalist (1726–1798)

Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester

14th-century English nobleman

Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland

English nobleman and rebel leader

Thomas Picton

British Army officer (1758–1815)

Thomas Piketty

b. 1971

French economist (born 1971)

Thomas Pitt

British merchant, colonial administrator and politician (1653–1726)

Thomas Platter the Younger

b. 1574

Swiss physician and writer