Thomas Watson

Thomas Watson may refer to:

Bishops

• Thomas Watson (bishop of Lincoln) (1515–1584)
• Thomas Watson (bishop of St David's) (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

• Tom Watson (golfer) (born 1949), American golfer
• Tommy Watson (footballer born 1943), Scottish former footballer
• Tommy Watson (footballer born 1969), English former footballer
• Tom Watson (footballer born 1902) (1902–1978), Ireland international footballer
• Tom Watson (footballer born 1870) (1870–1902), English football goalkeeper for Small Heath
• Tom Watson (football manager) (1859–1915), English football manager
• Tom Watson (fighter) (born 1982), mixed martial artist

Politicians

• Thomas Watson (Ilkeston MP) (1823–1887), British politician; MP for Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1885-1887)
• Tom Watson (politician) (born 1967), British politician; MP for West Bromwich East
• Thomas E. Watson (1856–1922), American politician; U.S. Senator from Georgia
• Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham (1715–1746), English nobleman and politician; MP for Canterbury
• Thomas Watson (Berwick-upon-Tweed MP) (died 1766), British politician; MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1754–1765

Business leaders

• Thomas A. Watson (1854–1934), inventor and assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone
• Thomas J. Watson (1874–1956), president of IBM
• Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914–1993), another president of IBM and son of IBM President Thomas J. Watson

Others

• Thomas E. Watson (USMC) (1892–1966), U.S. Marine Corps general
• Thomas Watson (surveyor), early Western Australian surveyor
• Yannima Tommy Watson, Australian artist
• Tom Watson (actor) (1932–2001), Scottish-born stage, television and film actor
• Thomas Lennox Watson (1850–1920), Scottish architect and interior designer
• Thomas Colclough Watson (1867–1917), VC