title: Tomes
text: # Tomes
  
  Tomes is a surname, derived from Thomas. It may refer to
  
  * Alan Tomes (born 1951), Scottish rugby player
  * Josef Tomeš (born 1954), Czech historian
  * Kimberly Tomes (born 1956), American beauty queen
  * Margot Tomes (1917–1991), American children's book illustrator
  * Robert Tomes (1817–1882), American physician, diplomat and writer
  * Robert Fisher Tomes (1823–1904), English zoologist
  * Sean Tomes, British rugby player
  
  ## Other
  
  * Tomes's process, a histologic landmark on ameloblasts, cells associated with tooth development
  * Tomes's sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina aurita), a bat species from South and Central America
  * Tomes's rice rat (Nephelomys albigularis), a rat species from South and Central America
  