Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright may refer to:

Entertainment

• Thomas Wright (writer) (fl. 1604), English writer
• Thomas Wright (engraver) (1792–1849), British engraver and portrait painter
• Thomas Wright (antiquarian) (1810–1877), British antiquarian and writer
• Thomas Wright (social commentator) (1839–1909), English social commentator
• Thomas J. Wright, film and television director, active since 1986
• Thomas Lee Wright (born 1953), American writer and filmmaker
• Thomas M. Wright (born 1983), Australian actor/director

Politics

• Thomas Wright (lord mayor) (died 1798), Lord Mayor of London in 1785
• Thomas C. Wright (born 1948), American politician
• Thomas E. Wright (born 1955), North Carolina House of Representatives
• Thomas Wright (Utah politician), American politician

Science

• Thomas Wright (astronomer) (1711–1786), English astronomer and mathematician
• Thomas Wright (geologist) (1809–1884), Scottish surgeon and paleontologist
• Thomas Wright (mathematical instrument maker) (1693-1767), English mathematical instrument maker
• Thomas H. Wright (1873–1928), American teacher and electrician
• Thomas J. Wright (American scholar), international relations scholar

Sports

• Thomas Wright (cricketer, born 1842) (1842–?), English cricketer
• Thomas Wright (cricketer, born 1900) (1900–1962), English cricketer
• Thomas Wright (rugby) (1924–1990), Scottish rugby union and rugby league player

Other

• Thomas Wright (controversialist) (died 1624), English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist
• Thomas Wright (philanthropist) (1789–1875), British prison philanthropist
• Thomas Charles Wright (1799–?), Irish-born admiral, founding-father of Ecuadorian Navy
• Thomas Edward Wright, soldier and penal administrator, commandant at Norfolk Island 1827–28
• Thomas F. Wright (1830–1873), American Union Brevet brigadier general during Civil War
• Thomas Yates Wright (1869–1964), British planter, cricketer, and legislator in Ceylon
• Thomas A. Wright Sr. (1920–2014), American civil rights leader
• Thomas Guthrie Wright (1777–1849), Scottish lawyer and antiquarian
• Thomas Wright (surveyor general) (1740–1812), surveyor general for Prince Edward Island

See also

• Tom Wright (disambiguation)
• Tommy Wright (disambiguation)
• Wright