Leading Figures in History

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

58072 persons found

Thomas Muster

b. 1967

Austrian tennis player

Thomas N. Heffron

American film director

Thomas N'Kono

b. 1956

Cameroonian footballer

Thomas Nagel

b. 1937

American philosopher (born 1937)

Thomas Nast

b. 1840

American cartoonist (1840–1902)

Thomas Newcomen

English inventor, preacher and ironmonger

Thomas Newman

b. 1955

American composer and conductor (born 1955)

Thomas of Bosnia

Bosnian king

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk

b. 1300

English prince and nobleman (1300–1338)

Thomas of Villanova

Preacher, ascetic and religious writer

Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester

English prince and nobleman (1355–1397)

Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds

English statesman

Thomas Overbury

English poet and essayist (1581–1613)

Thomas P. Grosvenor

American politician

Thomas P. Salmon

b. 1932

American politician (1932–2025)

Thomas P. Stafford

b. 1930

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2024)

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