Tom

Tom or TOM may refer to:

• Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)

People

Surname

• Michael Tom (1946–1999), American sculptor
• Nicholle Tom (born 1978), American actress

Given name

• Tom Anderson (born 1970), American entrepreneur, one of the founders of MySpace
• Tom Brady (born 1977), American NFL Quarterback
• Tom Cassell, British YouTuber
• Tom Cruise (born 1962), American actor
• Tom Gizzi, American football player
• Tom Hanks (born 1956), American actor
• Tom Konyves (born 1947), Canadian poet, pioneer of videopoetry
• Tom Longo (born 1948), American football player
• Tom Makitalo (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
• Tom Odell (born 1990), British singer
• Tom Parker (born 1987), English singer (The Wanted)
• Tom Schoen (born 1946), American football player
• Tom Toth (born 1962), American football player
• Tom Viezee (born 1950), Dutch Christian minister and politician

Fictional characters

• Tom, a character from the Deltora Quest (series) books by Emily Rodda
• Tom, a character in the Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) cartoon series
• Tom, a character in the anime and manga One Piece
• Tom Barnaby, the main character and (in some countries) the namesake of the TV series Midsomer Murders
• Tom Bombadil, a character in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Tom Cat, a character in Tom and Jerry cartoons
• Tom Croydon, a main character in the long-running Australian Police Drama Series, Blue Heelers
• Tom Friendly, a character in the TV show Lost
• Tom Baker, main character from the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel
• Tom Haverford, a character in Parks and Recreation
• Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist in the Harry Potter series
• Tom Sawyer, a character in several novels by Mark Twain
• Tom Scavo, character in TV series Desperate Housewives
• T.O.M., the robot host/mascot of Adult Swim's Toonami action block
• Tom, a fictional dinosaur from Tom
• Tom, the eldest character in Tots TV
• Uncle Tom, a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Tom Thomas, a character from the Children's animated TV Series Fireman Sam
• Tom Fletcher, an original character on soap opera, Home and Away
• Tom Tipper,a character in the Railway series by the Rev.W.Awdry and the spin-off series Thomas and Friends.

Nature

• Tom River, in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob
• Tom River (Amur Oblast), in Russia, the left tributary of the Zeya
• A male cat
• A male turkey

Acronyms

• Territoire d'outre-mer or overseas territory
• Text Object Model, a Microsoft Windows programming interface
• Theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others and to understand that others have states that are different from one's own
• Thomson Airways ICAO code
• TOM (object-oriented programming language), a defunct language based on Objective-C
• Tom (pattern matching language), a pattern matching and transform language
• Translocase of the outer membrane, a protein for intracellular protein-equilibrium
• Troops Out Movement, campaigned against British involvement in Northern Ireland
• Tune-o-matic, a guitar bridge design
• Target operating model, a description of the desired state of an organizational model in a business at a chosen date

Other uses

• Tom (instrument), a plucked allophones used in Ethiopia
• Tom (pattern matching language), a programming language
• Tom (TV series), a 1994 American sitcom
• Tom, a 1970 album by Tom Jones
• TOM Group, a Chinese media company
• TOM Online, a Chinese mobile internet company
• Tom-tom drum, a type of drum
• TOM (psychedelic), a lesser known psychedelic drug

See also

• Mount Tom (disambiguation)
• Peeping Tom (disambiguation)
• Thomas (disambiguation)
• Tom Thumb (disambiguation)
• Tomás (disambiguation)
• Tommy (disambiguation)