Tom

Tom or TOM may refer to:

• Tom (name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás (and a list of people with the name)

People

Surname

• Michael Tom (1946-1999), American sculptor
• Nicholle Tom (born 1978), American actress

Given name

• Tom Anderson (born 1970), American entrepreneur, one of the founders of MySpace
• Tom Fulp (born 1978), American video game programmer, founder of the American website New grounds
• Tom Konyves (born 1947), Canadian poet, pioneer of videopoetry
• Tom Hanks (born 1956), American actor
• Tom Viezee (born 1950), Dutch Christian minister and politician

Characters

• Tom Croydon, a main character in the long-running Australian Police Drama Series, Blue Heelers.
• Tom Barnaby, the main character and (in some countries) the namesake of the TV series Midsomer Murders
• Tom (Lost), a character in the TV show Lost
• Tom Bombadil, a character in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Tom Cat, a character in Tom and Jerry cartoons
• Tom, a character in the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry cartoon series
• Tom Haverford, a character in Parks and Recreation
• Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort, a main character in the Harry Potter series
• Tom Sawyer, a character in several novels by Mark Twain
• Tom Scavo, character in TV series Desperate Housewives
• Uncle Tom, a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Tom, a character from the book series Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda.

Nature

• Tom River, a tributary of Russia's Ob River
• Tom River, a tributary of Russia's Zeya River
• A male cat
• A male turkey

Acronyms

• Text Object Model, a Microsoft Windows programming interface
• Theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others and to understand that others have states that are different from one's own
• Translocase of the outer membrane, a protein for intracellular protein-equilibrium
• Tune-o-matic, a guitar bridge design
• Territoire d'outre-mer or overseas territory
• Thomsonfly's ICAO code
• TOM (object-oriented programming language), a defunct language based on Objective-C
• Tom (pattern matching language), a pattern matching and transform language

Other uses

• Tom (pattern matching language), a programming language
• Tom (TV series), a 1994 American sitcom
• Tom (instrument), a plucked allophones used in Ethiopia
• Tom, a 1970 album by Tom Jones
• Tom-tom drum, a type of drum
• TOM Group, a Chinese media company
• TOM Online, a Chinese mobile internet company

See also

• Tommy (disambiguation)
• Thomas (disambiguation)
• Tomás
• Mount Tom (disambiguation)
• Peeping Tom (disambiguation)
• Tom Thumb (disambiguation)