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British historian and politician (1800–1859)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
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Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher.
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures.
Read biography ↗English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
Thomas Gainsborough was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker who specialised in portrait and landscape painting.
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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect.
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Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy.
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Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.
Read biography ↗Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809.
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Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist.
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