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Tommy is a given name that is usually the English diminutive of Thomas. The name also could refer to:

People with the given name Tommy

  • Tommy Alcedo
    Tommy Alcedo
    Tommy Auma Free Alcedo Pérez is a male professional road cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:1999Tommy Auma Free Alcedo Pérez is a male professional road cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:1999...

     (born 1976), Venezuelan road cyclist
  • Tommy G. Armstrong (born 1941), Louisiana politician
  • Tommy Cooper
    Tommy Cooper
    Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper was a very popular British prop comedian and magician from Caerphilly, Wales.Cooper was a member of The Magic Circle, and respected by traditional magicians...

     (1921–1984), prop comedian and magician
  • Tommy DeBarge, American R'n'B musician formerly of the band Switch
  • Tommy Cannon
    Tommy Cannon
    Tommy Cannon is a comedian and the feed member of comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Bobby Ball....

     (born 1938), British comedian
  • Tommy Docherty
    Tommy Docherty
    Thomas Henderson "Tommy" Docherty , commonly known as "The Doc", is a Scottish former footballer and football manager.-Playing career:...

     (born 1928), Scottish former footballer and football manager
  • Tommy Douglas
    Tommy Douglas
    Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician...

     (1904–1986), father of universal healthcare in Canada
  • Tommy Dorsey
    Tommy Dorsey
    Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...

     (1905–1956), American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era
  • Tommy Ekblom
    Tommy Ekblom
    Tommy Uolevi Ekblom is a retired long-distance runner from Finland. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase. Ekblom set his personal best in that event in 1983...

     (born 1959), Finnish long-distance runner
  • Tommy Emmanuel
    Tommy Emmanuel
    William Thomas "Tommy" Emmanuel AM is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as "Best Acoustic Guitarist" in their...

     (born 1955), Australian guitarist
  • Thomas Gambino
    Thomas Gambino
    Thomas "Tommy" Gambino is a New York mobster and a longtime Caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking rackets in the New York City Garment District.-Early life:...

     (born 1929), Italian American mobster
  • Tommy Haas
    Tommy Haas
    Tommy Haas is a German and recently naturalized American professional tennis player. He has competed on the ATP Tour since 1996. After breaking into the world top 100 in 1997, and reaching a career-high ranking of world no...

     (born 1978), German tennis player
  • Tommy Finke
    Tommy Finke
    Tommy Finke is a singer-songwriter of Indie, German rock and pop music, and a composer of electronic and computer music.- Bio :...

     (born 1981), German singer/songwriter
  • Tommy Hilfiger
    Tommy Hilfiger
    Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of the premium lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger.-Early life:...

     (born 1951), fashion designer
  • Tommy Knight
    Tommy Knight
    Thomas 'Tommy' Lawrence Knight is an English actor best known for playing Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures.-Personal life:...

     (born 1993), English child actor
  • Tommy Lee
    Tommy Lee
    Thomas Lee Bass , best known as Tommy Lee, is an American musician and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects...

     (born 1962), drummer for hard rock band Mötley Crüe
  • Tommy Lee (footballer)
    Tommy Lee (footballer)
    Thomas Edward "Tommy" Lee is an English football goalkeeper, who plays for Chesterfield....

     (born 1986), football goalkeeper for Chesterfield F.C.
  • Tommy Lee Jones
    Tommy Lee Jones
    Tommy 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....

     (born 1946), American actor
  • Tommy Lloyd
    Tommy Lloyd
    Tommy Lloyd is an American basketball coach, and is currently an assistant coach for Gonzaga University.-Playing career:...

    , American basketball coach
  • Tommy Mercer
    Tommy Mercer
    Tommy Mercer is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Crimson. He is currently one half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions with Matt Morgan...

     (born 1985), American professional wrestler
  • Tommy Northcott
    Tommy Northcott
    Thomas Theodore "Tommy" Northcott was an English professional footballer. Although he played for several clubs during his career, Northcott is particularly remembered for his time at Torquay United, where he is regarded as one of the clubs all-time greats and Lincoln City where he was voted as one...

     (1931–2008), English footballer
  • Tommy Pangcoga
    Tommy Pangcoga
    Ahmed Harris Ramuros Pangcoga , best known as Tommy Pangcoga, is a writer and non-government organization worker based in Mindanao....

     (born 1972), writer and non-government organization worker based in Mindanao
  • Tommy Robredo
    Tommy Robredo
    Tommy Robredo Garcés is a Spanish professional tennis player. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time. His highest singles ranking to date is No...

     (born 1982), Spanish tennis player
  • Tommy Sale
    Tommy Sale
    Thomas Sale was an English footballer who played as a striker. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Sale had two spells at his home town club, Stoke City, amassing 483 appearances, either side of a two year stint at Blackburn Rovers...

     (1910–1990), English footballer
  • Tommy Shaw
    Tommy Shaw
    Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....

     (born 1953), guitarist for the band Styx
  • Tommy Simpson, British cyclist who died in the 1967 Tour de France
  • Tommy Smith (footballer born 1945)
    Tommy Smith (footballer born 1945)
    Thomas "Tommy" Smith MBE was a long-serving footballer with Liverpool, known for his uncompromising defensive style. Manager Bill Shankly once said of him: "Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried."-Life and playing career:...

  • Tommy Solomon
    Tommy Solomon
    Tame Horomona Rehe, also known by the anglicised name Tommy Solomon, is believed by most to have been the last full-blooded Moriori. Moriori were the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands ....

     (1884–1933), believed by most to have been the last true Moriori, the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands
  • Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele OBE , is an English entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.-Singer:...

     (born 1936), Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star
  • Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. (born 1980), singer and keyboardist of heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me
  • Tommy Thompson
    Tommy Thompson
    Thomas George "Tommy" Thompson , a United States Republican politician, was the 42nd Governor of Wisconsin, after which he served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Thompson was a candidate for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, but dropped out early after a poor performance in polls...

     (born 1941), U.S. politician
  • Tommy Walsh (builder) (born 1956), English celebrity builder
  • Tommy Walsh (hurler)
    Tommy Walsh (hurler)
    Tommy Walsh is an Irish hurler who currently plays as a right wing-back for the Kilkenny senior team. He joined the team during the 2002 championship and became a regular member of the starting fifteen the following year....

     (born 1983), hurler with Kilkenny GAA
  • Tommy Walsh (Kerry footballer)
    Tommy Walsh (Kerry footballer)
    Tommy Walsh is an Irish sportsman who is currently playing Australian Football in the Australian Football League with the Sydney Swans. He has played Gaelic football at club level with the Kerins O'Rahilly's club team and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team...

    , Gaelic footballer with Kerry GAA
  • Tommy Walsh (Wicklow Gaelic footballer), Gaelic footballer with Wicklow GAA
  • Tommy Wiseau
    Tommy Wiseau
    Tommy Wiseau is a screenwriter, director, producer, executive producer, and actor. He is the founder of the film production company Wiseau Films. Wiseau is best known for his film The Room which has been described as "one of the worst movies ever made" and has gained cult film status...

    , American film producer/director

also:
  • Tommy February6 and Tommy Heavenly6, the stage names for Japanese singer Tomoko Kawase
    Tomoko Kawase
    Tomoko Kawase is a Japanese female singer. Tomoko is the lead vocalist of the rock/pop group The Brilliant Green, and as a solo artist she has released music under the alter-ego pseudonyms Tommy february6 and later as Tommy heavenly6.-1995-2002: The Brilliant Green:In 1995, after bassist Shunsaku...


In fiction

  • Tommy Gavin
    Tommy Gavin
    Thomas Michael "Tommy" Gavin is the main character of the FX television series Rescue Me. He is portrayed by Denis Leary. Leary was nominated for a Golden Globe and for two Emmys for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Tommy...

    , lead character in the FX drama Rescue Me
  • Tommy Oliver
    Tommy Oliver
    Dr. Thomas "Tommy" Oliver is a fictional character from the universe of the American children's television franchise Power Rangers. He is a main character in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, as well as four of its successive incarnations Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo,...

    , one of the most famous characters from the Power Rangers television series portrayed by Jason David Frank
  • Tommy Pickles
    Tommy Pickles
    Thomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles is the main protagonist of the Nickelodeon animated television series' Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!. He is clad in only a T-shirt and a diaper and is bald with big, blank eyes. He translates everything adult into baby gibberish...

    , main character in the Rugrats and All Grown Up! TV series
  • Tommy Settergren, is a Pippi Longstocking
    Pippi Longstocking
    Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series...

    character
  • Tommy Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)
    Tommy Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun)
    Tommy Solomon is a fictional character created by Bonnie and Terry Turner from the American sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He was portrayed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.-Ironic age:...

    , one of the main characters from the sitcom
  • Tommy Turnbull, fictional character in the TV series Robotboy
  • Tommy Vercetti, protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
  • Tommy (comics), former member of the Morlocks in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Tommy Devito, a fictional character from the movie Goodfellas, based on real life gangster Tommy DeSimone
  • Tommy Himi
    Tommy Himi
    Tommy Himi, known in Japan as "Tommy" , is a main character in the Digimon anime series Digimon Frontier. In this series, a group of chosen human children were given the ability to turn into Digimon.-Description:...

    , one of the main characters in the Anime Digimon Frontier
  • Tommy Dawkins, character from Big Wolf on Campus
    Big Wolf on Campus
    Big Wolf on Campus is a Canadian television series created by Peter A. Knight and Christopher Briggs that ran from 1999 to 2002. In the lighthearted horror/teen drama tradition of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, it is about a teenage boy named Thomas "Tommy" P. Dawkins, who was bitten by a werewolf...

    series
  • Tommy Donnelly, character in the NBC drama The Black Donnellys
    The Black Donnellys
    The Black Donnellys is an American television drama that debuted on NBC on February 26, 2007 and last aired on April 2, 2007. Thereafter, NBC began releasing new episodes weekly on until the series was officially canceled. The Black Donnellys was created by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco...

  • Tommy Gilligan, younger brother of Numbuh Two in Codename: Kids Next Door
    Codename: Kids Next Door
    Codename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures in Santa Monica, California.. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and aired its final episode on...

  • Tommy Walker, main character of Tommy by The Who

In music

  • Tommy (album), a 1969 The Who album
    • Tommy (London Symphony Orchestra)Tommy (London Symphony Orchestra), 1970
    • Tommy (film)
      Tommy (film)
      Tommy is a 1975 British musical film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album musical Tommy. It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves...

      , a 1975 film based on The Who's album Tommy
    • The Who's Tommy
      The Who's Tommy
      The Who's Tommy is a rock musical by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff based on The Who's 1969 double album rock opera Tommy, also by Pete Townshend, with additional material by John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Sonny Boy Williamson.-Productions:...

      , Broadway musical based on The Who's album Tommy
    • Tommy (EP)
      Tommy (EP)
      Tommy is an extended play of songs selected from the album Tommy by The Who. This EP was released only in the United Kingdom as a replacement for the ""See Me, Feel Me" single, which was withdrawn shortly after its release. This EP did not chart....

      , a 1970 extended play of songs selected from the album Tommy by The Who
    • Tommy (soundtrack)
      Tommy (soundtrack)
      Tommy is a soundtrack album by The Who featuring contributions from numerous artists. The soundtrack was used in the 1975 Tommy film that was based on the original album that was released by The Who in 1969...

      , a 1975 soundtrack album by The Who
  • Tommy (1985–1987), The Wedding Present album
  • Tommy (Dosh album)
    Tommy (Dosh album)
    -Additional Information:"Airlift" contains a sample of Dosh and his friend covering "Run Like Hell" by Pink Floyd....

    , 2010

Other

  • Tommy (1931 film)
    Tommy (1931 film)
    Tommy is a 1931 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on a play Armoured Train 14-69 by Vsevolod Ivanov.-Cast:* Aleksei Temerin* A. Zhutayev - British Soldier* Mikhail Kedrov - Chinaman* Vasili Kovrigin - Leader* Vasili Vanin - Guide...

    , a 1931 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov
  • Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins
    Tommy Atkins is a term for a common soldier in the British Army that was already well established in the 19th century, but is particularly associated with World War I. It can be used as a term of reference, or as a form of address. German soldiers would call out to "Tommy" across no man's land if...

    , generic nickname for a British soldier (particularly in World War I) and immortalised in the poem "Tommy" by Rudyard Kipling
  • Thomson's Gazelle
    Thomson's Gazelle
    The Thomson's gazelle is one of the best-known gazelles. It is named after explorer Joseph Thomson and, as a result, is sometimes referred to as a "tommie"...

    , commonly referred to as "tommys"
  • Thompson submachine gun
    Thompson submachine gun
    The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...

    , also known as the "tommy gun"
  • Tommy, electric locomotive built by the London & North Eastern Railway
    London and North Eastern Railway
    The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain...

     in 1940
  • Tommy Shark, a name given to Great White Sharks after the wrecking of HMS Birkenhead
    HMS Birkenhead (1845)
    HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or steam frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...

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