Thomas Johnson
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Public officials
- Thomas Johnson (Liverpool merchant)Thomas Johnson (Liverpool merchant)Sir Thomas Johnson was an English merchant and Member of Parliament who was largely responsible for the foundation of the modern city of Liverpool.Johnson was born in Liverpool in 1664...
(1664–1728), English Member of Parliament
- Thomas Johnson (jurist) (1732–1819), American jurist; one of the Founding Fathers; Governor of Maryland; Supreme Court justice
- Thomas Johnson (Kansas politician) (1802–1865), American Methodist missionary in Kansas territorial legislature; namesake of Johnson County
- Thomas Johnson (Kentucky politician) (1812–1906), Confederate congressman during the early part of the American Civil War
- Tom L. JohnsonTom L. JohnsonThomas Loftin Johnson , better known as Tom L. Johnson, was an American politician of the Democratic Party from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He headed relief efforts after the Johnstown, Pennsylvania floods of 1889, was a U.S. Representative from 1891–1895 and the 35th mayor of...
(1854–1911), U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1891–1895 - Thomas Herman JohnsonThomas Herman JohnsonThomas Herman Johnson was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1907 to 1922, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Tobias C. Norris. Johnson was a member of the Liberal Party.Johnson was born in Iceland, and moved to...
(1870–1927), politician in Manitoba, Canada - Thomas Johnson (Irish politician)Thomas Johnson (Irish politician)Thomas Johnson was an Irish nationalist and Irish Labour Party leader. He was elected a Teachta Dála for Dublin County to the Third Dáil at the 1922 general election and was the leader of the Labour Party until 1927...
(1872–1963), Irish nationalist; leader of Irish Labour Party in British Parliament - Thomas Francis Johnson (1909–1988), U.S. Representative from Maryland, 1959–1963
- Tom Johnson (Ohio politician), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
- Tom Johnson (Illinois politician)Tom Johnson (Illinois politician)Thomas Lee 'Tom' Johnson is a Republican Illinois State Senator, representing the 48th district since 2011.-External links:* official IL Senate website**, * official campaign website...
(1945-), Illinois State Senator (2011-)
Sports personalities
- Thomas Johnson (cyclist) - Horace Thomas Johnson (1887-1966) competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
- Thomas Johnson (American football)Thomas Johnson (American football)Thomas Johnson is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
(born 1981), American defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons - Pepper JohnsonPepper JohnsonThomas "Pepper" Johnson is a former American football linebacker, and the current defensive line coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.-College:...
(born 1964), American football linebacker and coach - Thomas Johnson (rugby league)Thomas Johnson (rugby league)Thomas "Tommy" W. Johnson is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s who at representative level has played for England, and at club level for Hull, playing at /, i.e...
, rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s for England, and Hull F.C. - Tom Johnson (American football)Tom Johnson (American football)Thomas Johnson is a former American football player. He played at the defensive and offensive tackle positions for the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1951. He was selected as the most valuable defensive tackle in the Big Ten Conference in 1950 and as a first-team All-American at the same...
(born 1931), American football defensive tackle for Michigan and the Green Bay Packers - Tom Johnson (bareknuckle boxer) (1750–1797), born Tom Jackling, English bare-knuckle boxer
- Tom Johnson (baseball)Tom Johnson (baseball)Thomas Raymond Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played five seasons in the majors, from until for the Minnesota Twins. He pitched in 129 games during his career, all but one as a reliever....
(born 1951), American pitcher for the Minnesota Twins - Tom Johnson (boxer)Tom Johnson (boxer)Tom Johnson was a boxer in the Featherweight division. Known as "Boom boom" ,Johnson turned pro in 1986 and in 1991 challenged Manuel Medina for the IBF Featherweight Title, losing a technical decision. In 1993 he rematched Medina and was able to win the title with a narrow split decision victory...
(born 1964), American featherweight - Tom Johnson (golfer)Tom Johnson (golfer)Thomas Francis Johnson is an American professional golfer.Johnson was born in Sacramento, California. He turned professional in 2004 after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in Communication Studies.-2004:...
(born 1981), American member of the PGA tour - Tom Johnson (gridiron football) (born 1984), American defensive lineman/tackle drafted by the Indianapolis Colts
- Tom Johnson (ice hockey) (1928–2007), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- Tom Johnson (lacrosse)Tom Johnson (lacrosse)Tom Johnson from Vancouver, BC, is a professional lacrosse forward for the Washington Stealth of the National Lacrosse League and the Burnaby Lakers of the Western Lacrosse Association .- NLL career :...
(born 1985), professional lacrosse player - Tom Johnson (rugby player)Tom Johnson (rugby player)Tom Albert W. "Codger" Johnson was a Wales international rugby union player. He captained the Wales national rugby union team on one occasion in 1925. Johnson played his club rugby for Cardiff RFC....
, Wales international rugby union player - Tom Johnson (rugby union)Tom Johnson (Rugby Union)Tom Johnson is a professional Rugby Union player for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership. Tom was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham. His position of choice is Flanker or Number eight....
(born 1982), rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs - Tom Johnson (swimming coach)Tom Johnson (swimming coach)Tom Johnson is the 25th head coach at the University of Wyoming since the school began the swimming and diving program in 1931...
(born 1963), swim and diving coach at University of Wyoming - Tommy Johnson (footballer born 1900) (1900–1973), English forward for Manchester City F.C.
- Tommy Johnson (footballer born 1971)Tommy Johnson (footballer born 1971)Thomas "Tommy" Johnson is a retired footballer who played as a striker for clubs including Notts County, Celtic and Aston Villa.-Notts County:...
, English footballer for Notts County, Derby County, Aston Villa and Celtic
Music professionals
- Tommy Johnson (blues musician) (1896–1956), American delta blues musician
- Tommy Johnson (tubist)Tommy Johnson (tubist)John Thomas Johnson was an American orchestral tuba player. He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' Jaws score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark.-Early life, career:He was born in Los Angeles, California to a...
(1935–2006), American orchestral tuba player - Tom Johnson (composer)Tom Johnson (composer)Tom Johnson , is an American minimalist composer, a former student of Morton Feldman.-Career:His pieces are most often based simply on mathematical and logical processes, such as tiling, which he attempts to make as clear as possible...
(born 1939), American minimalist composer and music critic for The Village Voice - Tommy Johnson, American musician; plays drums with BobaflexBobaflexBobaflex is an American rock band from Point Pleasant, West Virginia. They were part of Gigantour in 2005 and Rock on the Range in 2008.-History:...
- Thomas Johnson (music producer) (born 1957), American audio engineer/producer/musician
Scholars and academics
- Thomas Johnson (botanist)Thomas Johnson (botanist)Thomas Johnson has been called "The Father of British Field Botany" but has been largely neglected, no doubt largely due to the very scanty records of his life which have survived. Such as there are, moreover, in any cases confuse rather than help the biographer, owing to the popularity of the...
(c. 1600–1644), English apothecary and botanist - Thomas Johnson (botany teacher)Thomas Johnson (botany teacher)Thomas Johnson was an English botanist and academic renowned as an expert and cataloguer of the world's algae, fungi, and fossil plants.-Life:...
(1863–1954), English authority on plants; professor of Botany at University College Dublin - Thomas E. Johnson (born 1948), geneticist and biogerontologist at the University of Colorado
Others
- Thomas Johnson (student) (1992-), Mathematics Student
- Thomas Johnson (monk)Thomas Johnson (monk)Blessed Thomas Johnson was a Carthusian monk who was left to starve in Newgate gaol because he would not sign the Oath of Supremacy. Margaret Clement brought him and the other Carthusians some food by entering in disguise, but on discovery this was ended...
(died 1537), English Carthusian monk - Thomas Johnson (designer)Thomas Johnson (designer)Thomas Johnson was an English wood carver and furniture maker.- Work :He worked in London and is particularly known for bold or extreme use and mixture of rococo, Chinese, and rustic motifs. He was said to be one of the most successful exponents of the rococo style, giving it a vitality not seen...
(1714–1778), English furniture maker, woodcarver and author - Thomas Johnson (architect)Thomas Johnson (architect)Thomas Johnson was a British architect who designed the 1808 building for the Leeds Library in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He built William Hey's house at 1, Albion Place, Leeds, and Holy Trinity Church, Halifax. It is possible that he also worked on the redesign of the south west section of...
(c. 1760–1814), British architect
- Thomas Johnson (animator) (1907–1960), American film animator; most prominently worked for Fleischer StudiosFleischer StudiosFleischer Studios, Inc., was an American corporation which originated as an Animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York...
- Thomas Johnson, known as Tommy the ClownTommy the ClownThomas Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown, is an American dancer best known as the inventor of the "clowning" style of dance, which evolved into krumping. Johnson invented the style in 1992 to enhance birthday party clown acts, thereby creating the concept of "hip-hop clowns"...
, American dancer - Thomas 15X Johnson (born 1935), American Black Muslim; convicted in 1965 assassination of Malcolm XMalcolm XMalcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...
- Tom Johnson (journalist)Tom Johnson (journalist)Wyatt Thomas Johnson is an American journalist and media executive, best known for serving as president of Cable News Network during the 1990s and, before that, as publisher of the Los Angeles Times newspaper...
(born 1941), American media executive; publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN - Tom Johnson (sound engineer)Tom Johnson (sound engineer)Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...
(born 1958), American film sound mixer - Tom Johnson (lawyer) (born 1971), American attorney based in Portland, Oregon
- Tom Johnson (writer) (born 1968), American Emmy-winning writer for the U.S. TV series The Daily ShowThe Daily ShowThe Daily Show , is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998...
- Tommy "Banana" Johnson, fictional character in the adult comic Viz
- Thomas S. Johnson, American banker
- Thomas Johnson, namesake of John & Thomas JohnsonJohn & Thomas JohnsonJohn & Thomas Johnson was a soap and alkali manufacturing business in Runcorn, Cheshire, England during the 19th century.John and Thomas Johnson were brothers after whom the business was named. Their father, also named John Johnson, had established a soapery on the south bank of the Bridgewater...
, a soap and alkali manufacturing business - Thomas Fielding JohnsonThomas Fielding JohnsonThomas Fielding Johnson was a prominent Victorian businessman and philanthropist in Leicester, England. Among his many acts of public spiritedness and generosity was the gifting in 1919 of a site and buildings for the establishment of Leicester University.-Family life:Fielding Johnson was born in...
(1828–1921), British businessman and philanthropist - T.C. JohnsonT.C. JohnsonThomas Crosley Johnson was an American firearms designer. The son of a President of the Yale Safe and Iron Company, Johnson was trained as an industrial engineer and worked for several companies before coming to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company...
(Thomas Crosley Johnson, died 1934), American firearms designer
See also
- Thomas Johnston (disambiguation)
- Tim Johnson (disambiguation)