Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) was an English painter.

Thomas or Tom Phillips may also refer to:

Business

  • Thomas L. Phillips Jr., businessman, co-founder of Spy magazine
  • Tom Phillips, former chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Motors Australia
  • Thomas L. Phillips, chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon

Arts and entertainment

  • Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips (1884–1969), Nigerian organist, conductor, composer and teacher
  • Thomas Hal Phillips (1922–2007), American actor and screenwriter
  • Tom Phillips (artist) (1937–2022), English artist
  • Tom Phillips (Australian artist), Australian painter, winner of the 2022 Guildhouse Fellowship
  • Tom Phillips (musician), American musician in the band While Heaven Wept
  • Tom Phillips, Australian film producer, producer of Lesbian Space Princess (2024)
  • Tom Phillips, author of 2018 non-fiction book Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

Law

  • Thomas Hawthorne Phillips (1914–1975), Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
  • Thomas W. Phillips (judge) (born 1943), federal judge, District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
  • Thomas R. Phillips (born 1949), Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court

Politics

  • Thomas Phillips (Irish adventurer) (1560–1633), founder of Limavady, governor of the county of Coleraine, first license to distil whiskey
  • Thomas Phillips (mayor) (1801–1867), Welsh lawyer, politician and businessman
  • Thomas Wharton Phillips (1835–1912), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. (1874–1956), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Thomas Williams Phillips (1883–1966), British civil servant
  • Tom Phillips (diplomat) (born 1950), British diplomat
  • Tom Phillips (Kansas politician) (born 1956), Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives
  • Thomas Phillips (MP for Hastings) (died 1626), MP for Hastings
  • Sir Thomas Phelipps, 1st Baronet or Thomas Phillips, MP for Winchester
  • Thomas Phelips or Phillips, MP for Poole and Wareham

Sports

  • Tommy Phillips (1883–1923), Canadian ice hockey star and war hero
  • Tom Phillips (baseball) (1889–1929), American baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians
  • Tom Phillips (racing driver) (born 1962), American race car driver
  • Tom Hannifan (born 1989), American wrestling commentator better known as Tom Phillips in WWE
  • Tom Phillips (Australian footballer) (born 1996), for the Hawthorn Football Club
  • Tom Phillips (rugby union) (born 1996), Welsh rugby player
  • Thomas Phillips (rower), American rower who won gold medal at the 1979 World Rowing Championships

Other people

  • Thomas Phelippes (1556–1625), English intelligence agent, also known as Thomas Phillips
  • Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), British antiquary and book collector
  • Thomas Phillips (educational benefactor) (1760–1851), founder of Llandovery College in Wales
  • Thomas Phillips (engineer) (died 1693), English military engineer
  • Thomas Phillips (priest) (1708–1774), English Jesuit biographer
  • Thomas Benbow Phillips (1829–1915), pioneer of the Welsh settlements in Brazil
  • Thomas G. Phillips (1937–2022), English physicist and astronomer
  • Thomas Jodrell Phillips (1807–1897), English philanthropist, changed his name to Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell in 1868
  • Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer) (1888–1941), British admiral
  • Tom Phillips (1987–2025), New Zealand father involved in the 2021 Phillips family disappearances

See also

  • Thomas Phelpes, MP
  • Thomas Philips (disambiguation)