Thomas King or Tom King may refer to:

Politicians

  • Thomas King (died 1688), English merchant and politician
  • Thomas King (died 1725), member of parliament for Queenborough, son of the above
  • T. Butler King (1800–1864), American politician from Georgia
  • SS Thomas B. King, a Liberty ship
  • Thomas King (New Zealand politician) (1821–1893), New Zealand politician
  • Thomas King (Australian politician) (1833–1886), South Australian minister of education, 1878–1881
  • Thomas King (Canadian politician) (1879–1972), merchant, farmer and politician in British Columbia, Canada
  • Thomas R. King (fl. 1943–44), chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
  • Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater (born 1933), British Conservative politician
  • Tom King (Mississippi politician) (born 1947), Mississippi transportation commissioner, former state senator

Sports

  • Thomas King (boxer) (1835–1888), English boxer, heavyweight champion of England
  • Tom King (basketball) (1924–2015), American professional basketball player
  • Tom King (footballer, born 1995), Wales international football goalkeeper
  • Tom King (footballer, born 2006), English football forward
  • Tom King (sailor) (born 1973), Australian sailing gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  • Tom King (American football) (1895–1972), American college football and basketball player and coach

Others

  • Thomas Joseph King (army officer) (1891–1971), New Zealand army officer
  • Tom King (highwayman) (died 1737), English highwayman
  • Thomas King (actor) (1730–1805), English actor, theatre manager and dramatist
  • Thomas A. King (1921–2012), Rear Admiral and first graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
  • Thomas Starr King (1824–1864), American Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War
  • Thomas King (astronomer) (1858–1916), New Zealand astronomer
  • Thomas King (botanist) (1834–1896), Scottish botanist
  • Thomas Joseph King (1921–2000), American biologist
  • Thomas J. King Jr. (1925–1994), American educator and Shakespearean scholar
  • Thomas M. King (1929–2009), American Jesuit priest and scholar of theology and philosophy at Georgetown University
  • Thomas King (merchant), British merchant and privateer
  • Thomas King (novelist) (born 1943), Canadian novelist and broadcaster
  • Thomas King (slave trader), British slave-trader
  • Thomas Wilkinson King (1809–1847), English pathologist and anatomist
  • Tom King (musician) (1942–2011), songwriter, founding member of the 1960s rock band The Outsiders
  • Tom King (writer) (born 1978), novelist and comic book writer
  • Harry Balk or Tom King (1925–2016), American record producer and songwriter

Fictional people

  • Tom King (Emmerdale), a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale
  • Thomas King (Emmerdale), a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale

Locations

  • Tom King Bayou
  • Tom King Bayou Bridge