Thomas King

Thomas King or Tom King may refer to:

Politicians

• Thomas King (died 1688), English merchant and politician
• Thomas King (died 1725), Member of Parliament for Queenborough, son of the above
• Thomas Butler King (1800–1864), American politician from Georgia
• Thomas King (New Zealand politician) (1821–1893), New Zealand politician
• Thomas King (Australian politician) (1833–1886), South Australian Minister of Education from 1878 to 1881
• Thomas King (Canadian politician) (1879–1972), merchant, farmer and politician in British Columbia, Canada
• Thomas King (novelist) (born 1943), Canadian writer and broadcast presenter
• 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

Sports

• 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), association football goalkeeper
• 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
• Tom King (footballer, born 2006), English football forward

Others

• 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 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

Fictional people

• Tom King (Emmerdale), a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Thomas King (Emmerdale), a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale

Locations

• Tom King Bayou
• Tom King Bayou Bridge