Leading Figures in History

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

58072 persons found

Thomas Röhler

b. 1991

German javelin thrower

Thomas Romney Robinson

b. 1792

Irish astronomer (1792–1882)

Thomas Ros, 4th Baron Ros

English nobleman (1335–1384)

Thomas Ros, 8th Baron Ros

English noble (1406–1430)

Thomas Ros, 9th Baron Ros

English nobleman (1427–1464)

Thomas Rotherham

Archbishop of York from 1480 to 1500

Thomas Rowlandson

b. 1756

English artist and caricaturist (1757–1827)

Thomas Rusch

b. 1962

German photographer (born 1962)

Thomas Russell (rebel)

Leader of the United Irishmen

Thomas S. Monson

b. 1927

President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1927–2018)

Thomas S. Ray

b. 1954

American zoologist (born 1954)

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

English politician and poet (1536–1608)

Thomas Sanchez

Spanish theologian (1550–1610)

Thomas Sandby

English painter (1721-1798)

Thomas Sankara

President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987

Thomas Selfridge

First person to die in an airplane crash (1908)

Thomas Silverstein

American murderer (1952–2019)

Thomas Simpson

British mathematician and inventor

Thomas Slater Price

British chemist

Thomas Smith (diplomat)

English scholar and diplomat (1513–1577)

Thomas Smythe

English merchant and colonial administrator

Thomas Sørensen

b. 1976

Danish footballer (born 1976)

Thomas Southerne

Irish dramatist (1660–1746)

Thomas Sprat

English churchman and writer (1635–1713)