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Thomas Joseph King (army officer) (1891–1971), New Zealand army officer •
Tom King (highwayman) (died 1737), English highwayman •
Thomas King (actor) (1730–1805), English actor, theatre manager and dramatist •
Thomas A. King (1921–2012), Rear Admiral and first graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy •
Thomas Starr King (1824–1864), American Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War •
Thomas King (astronomer) (1858–1916), New Zealand astronomer •
Thomas King (botanist) (1834–1896), Scottish botanist •
Thomas Joseph King (1921–2000), American biologist •
Thomas J. King Jr. (1925–1994), American educator and Shakespearean scholar •
Thomas M. King (1929–2009), American Jesuit priest and scholar of theology and philosophy at Georgetown University •
Thomas King (merchant), British merchant and privateer •
Thomas King (novelist) (born 1943), Canadian novelist and broadcaster •
Thomas King (slave trader), British slave-trader •
Thomas Wilkinson King (1809–1847), English pathologist and anatomist •
Tom King (musician) (1942–2011), songwriter, founding member of the 1960s rock band The Outsiders •
Tom King (writer) (born 1978), novelist and comic book writer •
Harry Balk or Tom King (1925–2016), American record producer and songwriter ==Fictional people==