Thomas Hamilton

Thomas, Tommy or Tom Hamilton may refer to:

Aristocracy

• Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington (1563–1637), Scottish administrator; Lord Advocate; judge; Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire
• Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington (1600–1640)
• Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington (1628–1645)
• Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington (ca. 1680–1735), Scottish politician; representative peer (1716–1734); Knight of the Thistle (1717)
• Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington (1721–1794)
• Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington (1780–1858), Scottish/English politician; Conservative MP (1802–1812 and 1814–1827)

Literature and academia

• Thomas Hamilton (writer) (1789–1842), Scottish writer of prose and verse (1827 military novel, Cyril Thornton)
• Thomas Hamilton (university administrator) (1842–1926), Northern Ireland academic and clergyman; appointed president of Queens College, Belfast in 1889
• Thomas H. Hamilton (1914–1979), American academic; served as president of SUNY (1959–1962) and University of Hawaii (1963–1967)

Sports

• Thomas Hamilton (footballer) (1906-1964), Scottish goalkeeper whose career lasted from 1922 to 19344
• Thomas Hamilton (basketball) (born 1975), American center whose career lasted from 1995 to 2000
• Tom Hamilton (American football) (1905–1994), American naval aviator in WWII and American football player and coach at the U.S. Naval Academy
• Tom Hamilton (baseball) (1925–1973), American MLB outfielder who played for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1952 and 1953
• Tom Hamilton (broadcaster), American radio and television sports announcer who began his career in 1990 with the Cleveland Indians
• Tommy Hamilton, Irish footballer

Music

• Tom Hamilton (musician) (born 1951), American bass guitarist best known for his work as a member of the rock band Aerosmith
• Tom Hamilton (born 1978), American singer/songwriter/guitarist; founder of rock bands Brothers Past (1996) and American Babies (2006)

Others

• Thomas Hamilton (architect) (1784–1858), Scottish architect; born in Glasgow, career spent in Edinburgh
• Thomas de Courcy Hamilton (1825–1908), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross for valor during the Crimean War
• Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (1873–1935), Canadian physician and psychic researcher; member of Manitoba Assembly 1915–1920
• Thomas F. Hamilton (1894–1969), American aviator, pioneer aircraft designer and founder of propeller parts manufacturer, Hamilton Standard
• Thomas Watt Hamilton (1952–1996), Scottish mass killer responsible for the 1996 school shooting known as the Dunblane massacre
• Tom Hamilton (politician) (born 1954), Northern Ireland Unionist member of the Assembly (Strangford, 2001–2003); Mayor of Ards

See also

• Hamilton (people)