Tom (given name)

Tom is mostly used as a diminutive of Thomas. In Germanic countries and Scandinavia, "Tom" is in use as a formal given name. In modern Hebrew, the name Tom (Hebrew: תם, תום) is used as a unisex name, with the meaning of "innocence, naivety, simplicity" or "the end.”

The name Tôm also exists as an independent Aramaic name.

Disambiguation pages

 * Tom Anderson (disambiguation)
 * Tom Arnold, a disambiguation page
 * Tom Baker (disambiguation)
 * Thomas Bell (disambiguation)
 * Tom Cochran, a disambiguation page
 * Tom Cotter (disambiguation)
 * Tom Daly (disambiguation)
 * Tom Fletcher (disambiguation)
 * Tom Holland (disambiguation)
 * Tom Kennedy (disambiguation)
 * Tom Kenny (disambiguation)
 * Tom Murphy (disambiguation)
 * Tom Parker (disambiguation)
 * Tom Simpson (disambiguation)

Sportsmen

 * Tom (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian footballer
 * Tom (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian footballer
 * Tom (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian footballer
 * Tom (footballer, born 1991), Brazilian footballer
 * Tom Ashworth (born 1977), American former football offensive tackle
 * Tom Aspinall (born 1993), English professional mixed martial artist
 * Tom Berry (rugby union) (1911–1993), English rugby union player and administrator
 * Tom Brady (born 1977), American football player best known for playing with the New England Patriots
 * Tom Brandi (born 1966), American professional wrestler
 * Tom Browning (1960–2022), American professional baseball pitcher
 * Tom Cannon (1852–19??), British professional wrestler
 * Tom Cannon (born 2002), English is a professional footballer
 * Tom Cutler (born 1995), Australian rules footballer
 * Tom Daley (born 1994), English diver
 * Tom Drake (wrestler) (1930–2017), American professional wrestler
 * Tom Dwan (born 1986), American poker player
 * Tom Gamboa (born 1948), American baseball coach and manager
 * Tom Gilson (American football) (born 1988), American football
 * Tom Gordon (born 1967), American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher and current radio color commentator
 * Tom Hardy (soccer), American soccer defender
 * Tom Heinsohn (1934–2020), American professional basketball player
 * Tom Hoover (basketball) (born 1941), American former professional basketball player
 * Tom Hubert (born 1964), American road course racer
 * Tom Humble (born 1988), Australian Rugby League player
 * Tom Jenkins (baseball) (1898–1979), American baseball player
 * Tom Jenkins (golfer) (born 1947), American golfer
 * Tom Jenkins (wrestler) (1872–1957), American professional wrestler
 * Tom Kingston (rugby union) (born 1991), Australian rugby union player
 * Tom Landry (1924–2000), American Football coach for the Dallas Cowboys
 * Tom Lawlor, (born 1983), American professional wrestler, retired mixed martial artist
 * Tom Leppard (1936–2016), English soldier best known as the most tattooed senior citizen
 * Tom Magee (born 1958), Canadian powerlifter and pro wrestler
 * Tom Maayan (born 1993), Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League
 * Tom McKean (born 1963), Scottish former middle distance runner who won the European Championships 800m gold medal at Split in 1990
 * Tom Mees (1949–1996), American sports broadcaster
 * Tom Murphy (catcher) (born 1991), American baseball player
 * Tom Okker (born 1944), Dutch tennis player
 * Tom Paradise, American geomorphologist
 * Tom Peck (born 1953), American Racing driver
 * Tom Platz (born 1955), American retired professional bodybuilder
 * Tom Pratt (American football) (born 1935), American football coach
 * Tom Prichard (born 1959), American retired professional wrestler
 * Tom Prince (bodybuilder) (1968–2022), American professional bodybuilder
 * Tom Rehder (born 1965), American football player
 * Tom Rockliff (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
 * Tom Sellers (athlete), American wheelchair racer
 * Tom Stolhandske (born 1931), American football player
 * Tom Stone, American retired professional wrestler
 * Tom Sunkel (1912–2002), American professional baseball player
 * Tom Symonds (born 1989), Australian Rugby League player
 * Tom Tavares (born 1987), Cape Verdean footballer
 * Tom Trbojevic (born 1996), Australian rugby league player
 * Tom Vu (born 1957), Vietnamese American poker player, real estate investor and speaker
 * Tom Watson (fighter) (born 1982), English mixed martial artist
 * Tom Yaacobov (born 1992), Israeli triple jumper
 * Tom Zenk (1958–2017), American professional wrestler and bodybuilder
 * Tom Zenk (1958–2017), American professional wrestler and bodybuilder

Politicians

 * Oswald 'Tom' Mosley (1896–1980), English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists
 * Tom Cotton (born 1977), American politician
 * Tom DeLay (born 1947), American politician
 * Tom Determann (born 1950), American politician
 * Tom Lukiwski (born 1951), Canadian politician
 * Tom Mulcair (born 1954), Canadian politician and former leader of the Opposition
 * Tom van den Nieuwenhuijzen (born 1982), Dutch politician
 * Tom Veen (1942–2014), Dutch politician
 * Tom Wolf (born 1948), American politician

Personalities

 * Tom Bergeron (born 1955), American television personality and game show host
 * Tom Holkenborg (born 1967), Dutch DJ previously known as Junkie XL
 * Tom Scott (presenter), British YouTuber
 * Tom Westman (born 1964), American firefighter and television personality
 * Thomas Ridgewell (born 1990), British YouTuber and voice actor

Actors

 * Tom Adams (actor) (1938–2014), English actor
 * Tom Blyth (born 1995), English actor best known for playing young Coriolanus Snow on The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
 * Tom Bosley (1927–2010), American actor
 * Tom Cassell (born 1993), British Youtuber
 * Tom Cruise (born 1962), American actor
 * Tom Ellis (actor) (born 1978), Welsh actor best known for playing Lucifer Morningstar on Lucifer
 * Tom Felton (born 1987), English actor and singer
 * Tom Gilson (1934–1962), American actor
 * Tom Glynn-Carney (born 1995), English actor
 * Tom Green (born 1971), Canadian actor and comedian
 * Tom Hanks (born 1956), American film actor
 * Tom Hardy (born 1977), English actor
 * Tom Hiddleston (born 1981), English actor
 * Tom Holland (born 1996), English actor
 * Tom Hopper (born 1985), English actor
 * Tom Jordan (1937–2019), Irish actor
 * Tom Kane (born 1962), American voice actor
 * Tom Kenny (born 1962), American voice actor
 * Tom Lister (born 1978), English actor
 * Tom Maden, American actor
 * Tom Mix (1880–1940), American cowboy actor
 * Tom Poston (1921–2007), American actor
 * Tom Selleck (born 1945), American actor and film producer
 * Tom Sizemore (1961–2023), American actor
 * Tom Sturridge (born 1985), English actor best known for playing Dream (character) on The Sandman (TV series)
 * Tom Welling (born 1977), American actor best known for playing Clark Kent on Smallville

Musicians

 * Tom Araya (born 1961), American bassist and vocalist with Slayer
 * Tom Chaplin (born 1979), British singer of Keane
 * Stompin' Tom Connors (1936–2013), Canadian singer/songwriter
 * Tom DeLonge (born 1975), American musician (blink-182)
 * Tom Evans (musician) (1947–1983), English musician and songwriter (Badfinger)
 * Tom Dowd (1925–2002), American sound engineer and producer for Atlantic Records
 * Tom Fogerty (1941–1990), American guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival
 * Tom Fowler (1951–2024), American bassist for Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, It's a Beautiful Day, among others
 * Tom Hamilton (born 1951), American bassist (Aerosmith)
 * Tom Lehrer (born 1928), American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician
 * Tom Jobim (1927–1994), Brazilian singer-songwriter
 * Tom Jones (singer) (born 1940), Welsh singer
 * Tom Kaulitz, guitarist of Tokio Hotel
 * Tom Morello (born 1964), American guitarist (Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave)
 * Tom Petersson (born 1950), American bassist (Cheap Trick)
 * Tom Petty (1950–2017), American singer-songwriter and musician
 * Tom Skinner (born 1980), English drummer
 * Tom Smothers (1937–2023), American comedian, composer, and musician (Smothers Brothers)
 * Tom Verlaine (1949–2023), American guitarist for the punk band Television
 * Tom Waits (born 1949), American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor
 * Tom Zé (born 1936), Brazilian singer‐songwriter

Artists

 * Tom Luckey (1940–2012), American architect and sculptor
 * Tomm Moore (born 1977), Irish illustrator, comics artist and filmmaker
 * Tom Palumbo (1921–2008), Italian born, American photographer
 * Tom Tsuchiya (born 1972), American sculptor

Other

 * Tom Brokaw (born 1940), American anchor for NBC
 * Tom Clancy (1947–2013), American author
 * Tom DeSanto (born 1968), American film producer and screenwriter
 * Tom Freston (born 1945), American media proprietor, businessman, and financier
 * Tom Konyves (born 1947), Canadian poet, pioneer of video poetry
 * Tom Hagen (born 1950), Norwegian businessman
 * Tom Hooper (born 1972), British-Australian film director
 * Tom McGillis, Canadian producer
 * Tom McLaury (1853–1881), Wild West gunfighter
 * Tom Moore (1920–2021), known as Captain Tom, a British Army officer
 * Tom Mylan (born 1976), American butcher, author, writer
 * Tom O'Carroll (born 1945), British paedophilia advocate
 * Tom Ruegger, American animator and screenwriter
 * Tom Segev (born 1945), Israeli historian, author, and journalist
 * Tom Stone (magician), Swedish magician, editor and author
 * Tom Stoppard (born 1937), British playwright and screenwriter
 * Tom Tykwer (born 1965), German film director

Fictional characters

 * Tom, a character from the 1993 action/martial arts movie Showdown
 * Tom, a character from the Deltora Quest books by Emily Rodda
 * Tom, a character from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)
 * Tom, a character from the anime and manga series One Piece
 * Tom, a fictional dinosaur from the children's cartoon Tom
 * Tom, the main protagonist from the British children's live-action series Tree Fu Tom
 * Tom, a character from the children's series Tots TV
 * Tom (Paralympic mascot), the official mascot of the 2016 Summer Paralympics
 * T.O.M., the robot host/mascot of Adult Swim's Toonami action block
 * Tom Anderson, a character in Beavis and Butt-Head
 * Tom Barcroft, a character in the 2006 superhero movie Lightspeed
 * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie Deep Impact
 * Tom Bombadil, a character from The Lord of the Rings and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
 * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby
 * Tom Cat, a title character from Tom and Jerry
 * Tom Canty, a title character from The Prince and the Pauper
 * Tom Codd, a character in the 1937 British comedy movie Beauty and the Barge
 * Tom Hansen, a character in the 2009 American romantic comedy-drama movie 500 Days of Summer
 * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil
 * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel Mortal Engines
 * Tom Nook, a character in Animal Crossing video game series
 * Tom Riddle, Harry Potter series villain
 * Tom Sawyer, title character of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 * Tom Servo, a robot character from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series
 * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom Daria
 * Talking Tom, A Grey tabby cat and the main Character of the Talking Tom & Friends franchise
 * Tom Thomas, from the animated series Fireman Sam
 * Tom Thumb, character of English folklore