Tommy

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

People with the given name Tommy

• Tommy Alcedo, Venezuelan road cyclist
• Tommy G. Armstrong, Louisiana politician
• Tommy Cooper, prop comedian and magician
• Tommy DeBarge, American R'n'B musician formerly of the band Switch
• Tommy Cannon (born 1938), British comedian
• Tommy Docherty, Scottish former footballer and football manager
• Tommy Douglas, father of universal healthcare in Canada
• Tommy Dorsey, American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era
• Tommy Ekblom, Finnish long-distance runner
• Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist
• Thomas Gambino, Italian American mobster
• Tommy Haas, German tennis player
• Tommy Finke, German singer/songwriter
• Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
• Tommy Knight, English child actor
• Tommy Lee, drummer for hard rock band Mötley Crüe
• Tommy Lee (footballer), football goalkeeper for Chesterfield F.C.
• Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
• Tommy Northcott, English footballer
• Tommy Pangcoga, a writer and non-government organization worker based in Mindanao
• Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
• Tommy Sale, English footballer
• Tommy Shaw, guitarist for the band Styx
• Tommy Simpson, British cyclist who died in the 1967 Tour de France
• Tommy Smith (footballer born 1945)
• Tommy Solomon(1884–1933), believed by most to have been the last true Moriori, the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands
• Tommy Steele, Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star
• Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr., singer and keyboardist of heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me
• Tommy Thompson, U.S. politician
• Tommy Walsh (builder), English celebrity builder
• Tommy Walsh (hurler), hurler with Kilkenny GAA
• Tommy Walsh (Kerry footballer), Gaelic footballer with Kerry GAA
• Tommy Walsh (Wicklow footballer), Gaelic footballer with Wicklow GAA

also:

• Tommy February6 and Tommy Heavenly6, the stage names for Japanese singer Tomoko Kawase

In fiction

• Tommy Gavin, lead character in the FX drama Rescue Me
• Tommy Oliver, one of the most famous characters from the Power Rangers television series portrayed by Jason David Frank
• Tommy Pickles, main character in the Rugrats and All Grown Up! TV series
• Tommy Settergren, is a Pippi Longstocking character
• Tommy Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun), 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, 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.

also:

• Tommy Dawkins, character from Big Wolf on Campus series
• Tommy Donnelly, character in the NBC drama The Black Donnellys
• Tommy Gilligan, younger brother of Numbuh Two in Codename: Kids Next Door
• Tommy Walker, main character of Tommy (album) by The Who

In music

• Tommy (album), a 1969 The Who album
• Tommy (film), film based on The Who's album Tommy
• The Who's Tommy, Broadway musical based on The Who's album Tommy
• Tommy (1985–1987), The Wedding Present album

Other

• Tommy (1931 film), a 1931 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov
• Tommy Atkins, generic nickname for a British soldier (particularly in World War I) and immortalised in the poem "Tommy" by Rudyard Kipling
• Thomson's Gazelle, commonly referred to as "tommys"
• Thompson submachine gun, also known as the "tommy gun"
• Tommy, electric locomotive built by the London & North Eastern Railway in 1940
• Tommy is a douchebag

See also

• Thomas