Thomas Johnson

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Thomas Johnson, Tom Johnson or Tommy Johnson may refer to:

Contents 1 Public officials 2 Sports personalities 3 Music professionals 4 Scholars and academics 5 Others 6 See also

[edit] Public officials

• Thomas Johnson (Liverpool merchant) (1664–1728), English Member of Parliament; key role in establishing modern port of Liverpool
• Thomas Johnson (Virginia), American politician; represented Louisa County in House of Burgesses (1758–1775); mentor to Patrick Henry
• Thomas Johnson (Maryland) (1732–1819), American jurist; one of the Founding Fathers; Governor of Maryland; Supreme Court justice
• Thomas Johnson (Kansas) (1802–1865), American Methodist missionary in Kansas territorial legislature; namesake of Johnson County
• Thomas Johnson (Kentucky), Confederate congressman during the early part of the American Civil War
• Tom Loftin Johnson (1854–1911), American politician; Democrat from Ohio; served in U.S. House of Representatives (1891–1895)
• Thomas Johnson (Irish politician) (1872–1963), Irish nationalist; leader of Irish Labour Party in British Parliament; in Irish Parliament
• Thomas Francis Johnson (1909–1988), American politician; Democrat from Maryland; served in U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1963)

[edit] Sports personalities

• Thomas Johnson (American football) (born 1981), American defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons; began his professional career in 2005
• Thomas Johnson (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s for England, and Hull F.C.
• Tom Johnson (baseball) (born 1951), American pitcher for the Minnesota Twins whose career lasted from 1974 to 1978
• Tom Johnson (boxer) (born 1964), American featherweight whose professional career lasted from 1986 to 2002
• Tom Johnson (golfer) (born 1981), American member of the PGA tour who began his professional career in 2004
• Tom Johnson (gridiron football) (born 1973), American defensive lineman/tackle drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 2006
• Tom Johnson (ice hockey) (1928–2007), Canadian defenceman whose professional career lasted from 1946 to 1965
• Tom Johnson (lacrosse) (born 1985), professional lacrosse player
• Tom Johnson (rugby player), Wales international rugby union player
• Tommy Johnson (footballer born 1900) (1900–1973), English forward who played for Manchester City F.C.
• Tommy Johnson (footballer born 1971), English footballer who played for Notts County, Derby County, Aston Villa and Celtic
• Tom Johnson (American football), played for Philadelphia Eagles championship winning team, 1948
• Tom Johnson (bare-knuckle boxer) (1750–1797), English bare-knuckle boxer considered one of the best of his era; fought 1783 to 1791
• Tommy Johnson, Jr. (born 1968), American funny car racing driver who began his professional career in 1988

[edit] Music professionals

• Tommy Johnson (blues musician) (1896–1956), American delta blues musician; lifelong Mississippian; made recordings in the late 1920s
• Tommy Johnson (tubist) (1935–2006), American orchestral tuba player who performed on thousands of film soundtracks
• Tom Johnson (composer) (born 1939), American minimalist composer and longtime music critic for The Village Voice
• Tommy Johnson, American musician; plays drums with Bobaflex, an alternative metal band established in West Virginia in 1988
• Thomas “TJ” Johnson (engineer/producer/musician) (born 1957), American audio engineer/producer/musician; works with Porno For Pyros and Rancid

[edit] Scholars and academics

• Thomas Johnson (botanist) (c. 1600–1644), English apothecary; known as "the father of British field botany"; published earliest studies
• Thomas Johnson (botany teacher) (1863–1954), English authority on plants; longtime Professor of Botany at University College Dublin
• Thomas E. Johnson (born 1948), geneticist and biogerontologist at the University of Colorado, discovered long-lived mutants of C elegans

[edit] Others

• Thomas Johnson (monk) (died 1537), English Carthusian monk who died of starvation as a martyr in London's Newgate prison
• Thomas Johnson (designer) (1714–1778), English furniture maker, woodcarver and author of many works about design
• Thomas 15X Johnson (born 1935), American Black Muslim; convicted in 1965 assassination of Malcolm X; released in 1987
• Tom Johnson (journalist) (born 1941), American media executive who served as publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN
• Tom Johnson (sound engineer) (born 1958), American film sound mixer; won Oscar and BAFTA for Terminator 2 and Oscar for Titanic
• Tom Johnson (lawyer) (born 1971), American attorney based in Portland, Oregon; volunteer defender for Guantanamo detainee Batayev
• Tom Johnson (writer) (born 1968), American Emmy-winning writer for the U.S. TV series The Daily Show
• Tommy "Banana" Johnson, fictional character in the adult comic Viz

[edit] See also

• Thomas Johnston (disambiguation)
• Tim Johnson (disambiguation)

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