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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was most famous in the Victorian era, when he was known for his dense, thoughtful books on history and philosophy. The son of a strict Calvinist, Carlyle became a divinity student at…Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Bulfinch studied at Harvard and spent most of his working life as a clerk at a Boston bank. A lifelong bachelor, Bulfinch devoted much of his free time to researching and rewriting classic…Thomas Aquinas
Name at birth: Tommaso d'AquinoThomas Aquinas was a priest, professor and philosopher who influenced centuries of religious and academic thought with his methodical way of harmonizing faith and…Thomas Nast
Illustrator Thomas Nast was America's first celebrity cartoonist, famous for helping to turn out New York's corrupt politicians and for creating persistent iconographic images of Santa Claus. Nast…Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade was a wealthy and controversial mass-market artist of the late 20th and early 21st century. Thomas Kinkade called himself a "painter of light," specializing in sun-dappled meadows and…Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher who wrote the 1651 book, Leviathan, a political treatise that described the "natural" (pre-social) life of mankind as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and…Thomas Hardy
English writer Thomas Hardy is best known for his novels Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1896). He spent most of his life in rural Dorset,…Thomas Edison
Name at birth: Thomas Alva EdisonThomas Edison was the best-known inventor of the early electrical age. His hundreds of inventions made him a giant public figure in American and around the world at…Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American writer from North Carolina known for his autobiographical novels, especially Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again. He grew up in rural North Carolina…Thomas Pynchon
Name at birth: Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.Literary critics loved Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V, published in 1963. Instantly he was considered one of the great new prose modernists, and he was soon…Trending
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