Thomas Johnson

Thomas Johnson

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

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 (1758–75); 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 (1891–95)
*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 (1959–63)

ports personalities

*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 (footballer born 1900) (1900–1973), English forward who played for Manchester City F.C. and whose professional career lasted from 1919 to 1939
*Tom Johnson (American football), played for Philadelphia Eagles championship winning team, 1948
*Tom Johnson (ice hockey) (1928–2007), Canadian defenceman whose professional career lasted from 1946 to 1965
*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
*Tommy Johnson, Jr. (born 1968), American funny car racing driver who began his professional career in 1988
*Tommy Johnson (footballer born 1971), English footballer who played for Notts County, Derby County, Aston Villa and Celtic
*Tom Johnson (football player) (born 1973), American defensive lineman/tackle drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 2006
*Thomas Johnson (American football) (born 1981), American defensive tackle for the Houston Texans; began his professional career in 2005
*Tom Johnson (golfer) (born 1981), American member of the PGA tour who began his professional career in 2004

Music professionals

*Tommy Johnson (blues musician) (1896–1956), American delta blues musician; lifelong Mississippian; made recordings in the late 1920s
*Tommy Johnson (session musician) (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

cholars 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

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 Johnson, English inventor; in 1803 invented the dressing frame which permitted the warp in looms to work uninterrupted
*Tom Johnson (1772–1839), British smuggler and inventor purportedly credited with design and construction of an early submarine
*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"
*Thomas Johnson (born 1960), American hermit who, from about 1988 to 1998, lived in a self-made underground home on Nantucket Island
*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

ee also

*Thomas Johnston (disambiguation)
*Tim Johnson (disambiguation)


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