Thomas Jones
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Clergy
- Thomas Jones (bishop) (1550–1619), archbishop of Dublin
- Thomas Jones (priest) (died 1682), Anglican clergyman
- Thomas Jones of DenbighThomas Jones of DenbighThomas Jones , called "Thomas Jones of Denbigh" to differentiate him from namesakes, was a Welsh minister and author.-Life history:...
(1756–1820), minister and author
Politicians
- Thomas Jones (died 1711), Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
- Thomas Jones (1765–1811)Thomas Jones (1765–1811)Thomas Jones was a British politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1790.-References:...
, Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis - Thomas B. JonesThomas B. JonesThomas B. Jones was the mayor of Newport News, Virginia from 1926 to 1930....
, American politician - Thomas G. JonesThomas G. JonesThomas Goode Jones was an American Democratic politician who was the 28th Governor of Alabama from 1890 to 1894. Born in 1844 in Macon, Georgia and died in 1914 in Montgomery, Alabama....
(1844–1914), Governor of Alabama - Thomas Laurens JonesThomas Laurens JonesThomas Laurens Jones was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in White Oak, North Carolina, Jones attended private schools.He graduated from Princeton College and from the law department of Harvard University....
(1819–1887), American politician - Thomas William Jones, Baron Maelor (1898–1984), Welsh politician
Sportsmen
- Thomas Jones (American football) (born 1978), American football player
- Thomas Jones (footballer born 1879)Thomas Jones (footballer born 1879)Thomas Trevellyan Jones was an English footballer who made two appearances in the Football League playing for Small Heath. He played as an outside left....
(Thomas Trevellyan Jones, 1879–19??), footballer who played as an outside left with Small Heath in the 1900s - Thomas Jones (footballer born 1884) (Thomas Daniel Jones, 1884–1958), Welsh international football inside left who played for Nottingham Forest in the 1900s
- Thomas Jones (footballer born 1885)Thomas Jones (footballer born 1885)Thomas Jones was an English professional footballer who made 46 appearances in the Football League playing for Everton and Birmingham. He played as a forward....
(1885–19??), footballer who played as a centre forward and outside right with Everton (1900s) and Birmingham (1910s) - Tommy Jones (footballer born 1907) (Thomas William Jones, 1907–1980), English footballer who played for Burnley, Blackpool and Grimsby Town
- Tommy Jones (footballer born 1909) (Thomas John Jones, 1909–????), Welsh international footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday, Manchester United and Watford
- T. G. JonesT. G. JonesThomas George "T.G." Jones was a Welsh footballer most notable for his career with Everton and Wales.-Biography:Born in Connah's Quay, Jones started his professional career with Wrexham. He signed for for £3,000 in 1936...
, (Thomas George Jones, 1917-2004), Welsh international football defender who played with Everton either side of World War II - Tommy Jones (footballer born 1930) (often referred to as TE Jones, 1930-2010), football centre half who played for Everton in the 1940s and 1950s
- Tommy Jones (baseball)Tommy Jones (baseball)Thomas M. "Tommy" Jones was a baseball player, manager, coach and executive who worked from through for the Kansas City Royals , New York Yankees , Seattle Mariners , Milwaukee Brewers , Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks Major League Baseball organizations...
, (Thomas M. Jones) - Tommy Jones (bowler) (born 1978), American professional bowler
- Thomas Babington JonesThomas Babington JonesThomas Babington Jones was a Welsh cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club.-Life:...
(1851–1890), Welsh cricketer - Thomas Baker JonesThomas Baker JonesThomas Baker Jones was a Welsh international rugby union player who played club rugby union for Newport. Jones was capped six times for Wales and was the first player to score recognised international points for the national team....
(1862–1959), Welsh rugby player
Other
- Thomas Jones (Medal of Honor)Thomas Jones (Medal of Honor)Thomas Jones was a sailor in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865.-Military service:...
, American Civil War sailor - Major Thomas JonesMajor Thomas JonesMajor Thomas Jones emigrated to Rhode Island from Strabane, in Ireland. There he married Freelove Townsend, daughter of Captain Thomas Townsend, and would go on to serve as a privateer, and later be an influential figure on Long Island....
, Irish born immigrant to Colonial America, settled on Long Island - Tommy Lee JonesTommy Lee JonesTommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
, actor - Thomas Jones (artist)Thomas Jones (artist)Thomas Jones was a British landscape painter. He was a pupil of Richard Wilson and was best known in his lifetime as a painter of Welsh and Italian landscapes in the style of his master. However, Jones's reputation grew in the 20th century when more unconventional works by him, ones not been...
(1742–1803), Welsh landscape painter - Thomas Jones (civil engineer) (1809–1892) South Australian pioneer
- Thomas Jones (English publisher)Thomas Jones (English publisher)Thomas Jones was an English publisher and bookseller.Born a Roman Catholic, he converted to Judaism. For many years he pursued the business of publisher and bookseller in Paternoster Row, London...
(1791–1882) - Thomas Jones (historian)Thomas Jones (historian)Thomas Jones was a lawyer and politician of colonial New York.-Life:...
(1730–1792), American Loyalist historian - Thomas Jones (justice)Thomas Jones (justice)Sir Thomas Jones KS was a British justice and law reporter. He was the second son of Edward Jones and his wife Mary, and was initially educated at Shrewsbury School before being admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 9 May 1629...
(1614-1692), British judge - Thomas Jones (librarian)Thomas Jones (librarian)Thomas Jones was a Welsh librarian, who was librarian of Chetham's Library in Manchester from 1845 to 1875.-Life:...
(1810–1875), librarian of Chetham's Library, Manchester - Thomas Jones (mathematician)Thomas Jones (mathematician)Thomas Jones was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick....
(1756–1807), English mathematician and academic - Thomas Jones (missionary)Thomas Jones (missionary)Thomas Jones was a Welsh missionary, best remembered for his work in recording the Khasi language in Roman script...
(1810–1849), Welsh missionary in India - Thomas Jones (T. J.) (1870–1955), Welsh civil servant and educationalist
- Thomas ap Catesby JonesThomas ap Catesby JonesThomas ap Catesby Jones was a U.S. Navy officer during the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War.-Early life:Jones was born in 1790 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Thomas ap Catesby Jones means Thomas, son of Catesby Jones in the Welsh language. His brother was Roger Jones, who would become...
(1790–1858), U.S. Navy officer - Thomas Alfred JonesThomas Alfred JonesThomas Alfred Jones VC DCM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
VC DCM (1880–1956), English recipient of the Victoria Cross - Thomas David JonesThomas David JonesThomas David Jones is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996 and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes...
(born 1955), American astronaut - Thomas Dow JonesThomas Dow JonesThomas Dow Jones was an American sculptor and medallist.Jones was born in Oneida County, New York. He moved to Ohio in the 1830s, where he worked in Cincinnati as a stonemason, and by 1842 was sculpting portrait busts. In 1851 he moved to New York City, and in 1853 was elected an Associate Member...
(1811–1881), artist - Thomas Gwynn JonesThomas Gwynn JonesThomas Gwynn Jones or T. Gwynn Jones was a leading Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist, translator, and journalist who did important work in Welsh literature, Welsh education, and the study of Welsh folk tales in the first half of the twentieth century...
(1871–1949), Welsh poet - Thomas Henry Jones, known as T. Harri JonesT. Harri JonesThomas Henry "Harri" Jones was a Welsh poet and university lecturer.Jones was born in Llanafan-Fawr, Brecknockshire . He served in the Royal Navy from 1941–1946 during World War II. He attended University of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating in English in 1947 and gaining a Master of Arts in 1949...
(1921–1965), Anglo-Welsh poet - Thomas Mercer JonesThomas Mercer JonesThomas Mercer Jones was an English-born administrator who arrived in Upper Canada in the 1820s and was employed as a commissioner of the Canada Company based in Goderich. A series of internal conflicts led to his dismissal in 1852. He died in Toronto.- External links :*...
(1795–1868), English-Canadian administrator - Thomas P. JonesThomas P. JonesThomas P. Jones was an English engineer and publisher. Born in Herefordshire, England, he emigrated to America as a youth and became a cofounder , as well as the publisher and editor, of American Mechanics Magazine....
(1774–1848), English engineer and publisher - Thomas Rupert JonesThomas Rupert JonesThomas Rupert Jones was an English geologist and palaeontologist born in London.He was born in Cheapside, London, the son of John Jones, silk merchant, and his wife Rhoda Jones of Coventry. While at a private school at Ilminster, his attention was attracted to geology by the fossils that are so...
(1819–1911), English geologist - Thomas Russell Jones (1913–2006), American judge
- Thomas Victor JonesThomas Victor Jones-Biography:He graduated magna cum laude in engineering from Stanford University. He went to work at Douglas Aircraft Company in 1942. He worked for the Brazilian Air Ministry to create the Aeronautical Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1951. Around 1953 he went to work for the RAND Corporation...
, American businessman - Thomas W. JonesThomas W. JonesThomas W. Jones is senior partner of TWJ Capital LLC. Previously he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Inc.'s Global Investment Management from 1999 to 2004. He joined Travelers Group as Vice Chairman in 1997 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith...
(born 1949), American businessman - Thomas Wharton Jones (1808–1891), an eminent ophthalmologist and physiologist of the 19th century