Thomas Johnson

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Thomas Johnson, Tom Johnson or Tommy Johnson is a name shared by the following individuals:

Contents 1 Public officials 2 Sports personalities 3 Music professionals 4 Scholars and academics 5 Others 6 See also

[edit] 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
• 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)

[edit] Sports 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 1920s and 1930s) (1900–1973), English forward whose professional career lasted from 1919 to 1939
• 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 1990s and 2000s) (born 1971), English striker who began his professional career at Notts County in 1990
• Tom Johnson (football player) (born 1973), American defensive lineman/tackle drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 2006
• Thomas Johnson (football player) (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

[edit] 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
• Tom Johnson (musician) (born 1978), American composer, arranger, trombonist, audio engineer and producer
• Tommy Johnson, American musician; plays drums with Bobaflex, an alternative metal band established in West Virginia in 1988

[edit] Scholars 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 Johnson (geneticist) (born 1948), American geneticist at the University of Colorado, Boulder Institute for Behavioral Genetics

[edit] 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 (film sound) (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

[edit] See also

• People with the surname Johnson
• Johnston (surname)
• Thomas D. Johnston (1840–1902), American politician; Democrat from North Carolina; in U.S. Congress 1885–89
• Thomas Johnston (1882–1965), Scottish socialist politician; Labour MP 1922–31 and 1935–45; Scottish Secretary 1941–45
• Tom Johnston (footballer) (1918–1994), Scottish midfielder; playing career 1938–56; coaching and managerial career 1956–78
• Tommy Johnston (born 1927), Scottish footballer; striker whose career lasted from 1949 to 1961
• Tom Johnston (musician) (born 1948), American rock guitarist and vocalist who, in 1970, co-founded The Doobie Brothers
• Johnstone (surname)
• Thomas Lipton (1848–1931), Scottish merchant and personality; created Lipton tea brand; also known as Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton