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Thomas Stevens

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7794191
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Thomas, Tom Stevens or Thomas, Tom Stephens may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Thomas Stevens (weaver) (1828–1888), English silk weaver

Thomas E. Stephens (artist) (1884–1966), Welsh-born portrait painter

Terry-Thomas or Thomas Stevens (1911–1990), English comedian and character actor

Thomas Stevens (trumpeter) (1938–2018), American trumpeter, composer, and author

Tom Stevens (musician) (born 1956), American bassist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter

Tom Stevens (actor) (born 1987), Canadian actor, producer, and musician

Rogers Stevens (born Thomas Rogers Stevens, 1970), American guitarist

T. M. Stevens (Thomas Michael Stevens), American bass guitarist

Thomas Wood Stevens, American artist, poet, writer, and theatre director

Military

Thomas Holdup Stevens (1795–1841), American naval commander in the War of 1812

Thomas Stephens (Wisconsin pioneer) (1815–1871), Union Army cavalry officer

Thomas H. Stevens Jr. (1819–1896), admiral of the United States Navy who fought in the American Civil War

Law and politics

Thomas Stevens (MP for Gloucester), MP for Gloucester, 1420–1442

Thomas G. Stephens (1818–?), Wisconsin legislator

Thomas Blacket Stephens (1819–1877), mayor of Brisbane

Thomas J. Stevens (1848–1900), member of the Utah State legislature

Thomas E. Stephens (politician) (1904–1988), American politician

Tom Stephens (born 1951), Australian politician, member of the Parliament of Western Australia 1982 to 2013

Tom Stevens (Objectivist Party politician) (1956–2019), American politician, 2008 and 2012 presidential nominee of the Objectivist Party

Tom Stevens (Vermont politician), member of the Vermont House of Representatives

Religion

Thomas Stevens (monk) (c. 1490–1550), abbot of Netley Abbey and Beaulieu Abbey, English renaissance clergyman and Cistercian monk

Thomas Stephens (Jesuit) (c. 1549–1619), early writer in Konkani

Thomas Stevens (bishop) (1841–1920), inaugural bishop of Barking

Sports

Thomas Stevens (cyclist) (1854–1935), first man to cycle around the world

Thomas Stevens (motorcyclist), AMA Superbike Champion 1991

Thomas Stephens (American football) (1935–2018), professional American football player

Thomas Stephens (boxer) (born 1969), Liberian Olympic boxer

Others

Thomas Stephens Davies (c. 1794–1851), British mathematician

Thomas Stevens (c.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1828, 1888, 1884, 1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Thomas, Stevens and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Thomas Stevens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.