title: Thomas Robinson
text: # Thomas Robinson
  
  Thomas, Tom or Tommy Robinson may refer to:
  
  ## Artists
  
  * Thomas Robinson (composer) (c. 1560 – after 1609), English composer and music teacher
  * Thomas Heath Robinson (1869–1954), British book illustrator
  
  ## Politicians
  
  * Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham (c. 1695–1770), English diplomat and politician
  * Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (1738–1786), English politician and statesman
  * Thomas Robinson Jr. (1800–1843), United States Representative from Delaware
  * Thomas Robinson (Gloucester MP) (1827–1897), English corn merchant and Liberal politician, MP for Gloucester 1880–95
  * Thomas H. Robinson (Maryland politician) (1859–1930), American politician and lawyer
  * Sir Thomas Robinson (Stretford MP) (1864–1953), English politician, MP for Stretford, 1918–1931
  * Thomas J. B. Robinson (1868–1958), United States Representative from Iowa
  * Tommy F. Robinson (born 1942), American politician from Arkansas
  * Thomas Robinson (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1950 or 1951), Unionist politician from Northern Ireland
  
  ## Sportsmen
  
  * Thomas Robinson (cricketer) (1837–1910), English cricketer
  * Thomas Robinson (footballer) (1893–1951), English footballer
  * Tommy Robinson (footballer) (1909–1982), English footballer of the 1930s
  * Tom Robinson (athlete) (1937–2012), Bahamian sprinter
  * Thomas Robinson (basketball) (born 1991), basketball player
  * Tom Robinson (rugby union) (born 1994), New Zealand rugby union player
  
  ## Other people
  
  * Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet (1703–1777), English architect and collector; Governor of Barbados, 1742–1747
  * Thomas Robinson (1749–1813), English cleric in Leicester
  * Thomas Robinson (orientalist) (1790–1873), English cleric and academic
  * Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), Irish astronomer and physicist
  * Thomas Robinson (Medal of Honor) (1837–1915), United States Navy sailor
  * Sir Thomas B. Robinson (1853–1939), Australian businessman and diplomat
  * Tom Robinson (born 1950), English singer-songwriter and broadcaster
  * Tom Robinson (priest), Church of England military archdeacon
  * Tommy Robinson (activist) (born 1982), pseudonym used by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, former leader of the English Defence League
  * Tommy Robinson (hooligan), British football hooligan
  * Tommy Robinson, British actor who played Albert Briggs in the 1980s children's programme Jonny Briggs
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Tom Robinson (Oz), character on the HBO series Oz
  * Tom Robinson, a character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird
  