Tom Jones
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Tom Jones is the name of:
In media, Tom Jones may refer to:
- Tom Jones (singer)Tom Jones (singer)Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
(born 1940), Welsh singer - Tom Jones (Australian politician)Tom Jones (Australian politician)Thomas Henry Jones OAM is a retired Australian politician and trade union leader. He served the Australian Labor Party as member for Collie from 1968 until his retirement in 1989.-Early life:...
(born 1924), Australian politician representing Collie-Wellington district - Tom Jones (baseball) (1877–1923), American first baseman in Major League Baseball
- Tom Jones (bishop) (1903–72), Anglican bishop of Willochra in Australia
- Tom Jones (cricketer)Tom Jones (cricketer)Lt. Thomas Charles Jones was a Welsh cricketer. Jones was a left-handed batsman. He was born at Pontypool, Monmouthshire....
(1901–35), Welsh cricketer - Tom Jones (footballer born 1899) (died 1978), Welsh international football fullback who played for Manchester United
- Tom Jones (footballer born 1964), football midfielder who played in the 1980s and 1990s with Swindon Town and Reading
- Tom Jones (racing driver) (born 1943), American racing driver
- Tom Jones (trade unionist)Tom Jones (trade unionist)Tom Jones was a British trade unionist.Born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, he worked in his father's tin plate business, before moving to London in 1839, where he joined the Operative Tin Plate Workers Society...
(1822–1916), British trade union activist - Tom Jones (writer)Tom Jones (writer)Tom Jones is a lyricist of musical theatre. His best known work is The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002, and the hit song from the same, Try to Remember. Other songs from "The Fantasticks" include "Soon It's Gonna Rain", "Much More" and "I Can See It"...
(born 1928), lyricist of musical theater
In media, Tom Jones may refer to:
- The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel...
, a novel by Henry Fielding published in 1749 - Tom Jones (film)Tom Jones (film)Tom Jones is a 1963 British adventure comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards...
an Academy Award winning 1963 film based on the Henry Fielding novel - Tom Jones (opera)Tom Jones (opera)Tom Jones is a comic opera in three acts by Edward German founded upon Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander M. Thompson and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor....
, a 1907 British comic opera also based on Fielding's novel - Tom Jones (Philidor)Tom Jones (Philidor)Tom Jones is a comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a kind of opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor which first appeared at the Comédie-Italienne, Paris on 27 February 1765...
, an 1765 opera by Philidor based on Fielding's novel