Thomas Watson may refer to:

Bishops

  • Thomas Watson (bishop of Lincoln) (1515–1584), Catholic bishop
  • Thomas Watson (bishop of St Davids) (1637–1717), English clergyman

Writers

  • Thomas Watson (poet) (c. 1557–1592), English poet and translator
  • Thomas Watson (Puritan) (c. 1620–1686), nonconformist preacher and writer
  • Tom Watson (journalist) (born 1962), journalist and author

Sportsmen

Association Football

  • Tom Watson (football manager) (1859–1915), English football manager
  • Tom Watson (footballer, born 1860s) (1868 or 1869 – 1902), English football goalkeeper for Small Heath
  • Tom Watson (Australian footballer) (1874–1920), Australian rules footballer
  • Tom Watson (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1978), Ireland international football player
  • Tom Watson (footballer, born 1904) (1904–1979), footballer for Rochdale
  • Gordon Watson (footballer, born 1914) (Thomas Gordon Watson, 1914–2001), English footballer for Everton
  • Tommy Watson (footballer, born 1943), Scottish football winger
  • Tommy Watson (footballer, born 1969), English football player
  • Tommy Watson (footballer, born 2006), footballer for Brighton & Hove Albion

Cricket

  • Thomas Watson (cricketer, born 1880) (1880–1944), English clergyman and cricketer
  • Thomas Watson (Scottish cricketer) (1896–1974)
  • Thomas Watson (cricketer, born 1913) (1913–1994), English cricketer and educator

Other Sports

  • Tommy Watson (boxer) (1908–1971), English boxer
  • Tom Watson (golfer) (born 1949), American golfer
  • Tom Watson (fighter) (born 1982), mixed martial artist

Politicians

  • Thomas Watson (silk spinner) (1823–1887), British politician; MP for Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1885–1887
  • Thomas E. Watson (1856–1922), American politician; Populist leader; U.S. senator from Georgia
  • Thomas Philip Watson (1933–2015), American politician; Oklahoma state senator
  • Thomas R. Watson (born 1947), American politician; Maine state representative
  • Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham (1715–1746), English nobleman and politician; MP for Canterbury
  • Thomas Watson (Berwick-upon-Tweed MP) (c. 1701–1766), British politician; MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1754–1765
  • J. Thomas Watson (1885–1954), Florida attorney general
  • Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest (born 1967), British politician; former deputy leader of the Labour Party; and former MP for West Bromwich East
  • Thomas Watson (died before 1621) English member of parliament

Businesspeople

  • Thomas J. Watson (1874–1956), first president of IBM
  • Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914–1993), second president of IBM and son of Thomas J. Watson

Artists

  • Thomas Watson (engraver) (1750–1781), fine engraver
  • T. H. Watson (Thomas Henry Watson, 1839–1913), British architect
  • Thomas Lennox Watson (1850–1920), Scottish architect and interior designer
  • Tom Watson (actor) (1932–2001), Scottish-born stage, television and film actor
  • Yannima Tommy Watson (c. 1935–2017), Australian artist

Others

  • Thomas A. Watson (1854–1934), inventor and assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone
  • Tom Watson (musician) (born 1962), American guitarist
  • Thomas E. Watson (USMC) (1892–1966), U.S. Marine Corps general
  • Thomas Watson (surveyor), early Western Australian surveyor
  • Thomas Watson (trade unionist) (1860–1921), British trade union leader
  • Thomas Colclough Watson (1867–1917), British recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet (1792–1882), British physician and president of the Royal College of Physicians, 1862–66
  • Thomas Watson (Royal Navy officer) (died 1744), British navy captain