Tommy

Tommy is a given name that is usually the English diminutive of Thomas. The name also could refer to:

People with the given name Tommy

• Tommy Alcedo (born 1976), Venezuelan road cyclist
• Tommy G. Armstrong (born 1941), Louisiana politician
• Tommy Boutwell (born 1946), American football player
• Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), prop comedian and magician
• Tommy DeBarge, American R'n'B musician formerly of the band Switch
• Tommy Cannon (born 1938), British comedian
• Tommy Docherty (born 1928), Scottish former footballer and football manager
• Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), father of universal healthcare in Canada
• Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era
• Tommy Ekblom (born 1959), Finnish long-distance runner
• Tommy Emmanuel (born 1955), Australian guitarist
• Thomas Gambino (born 1929), Italian American mobster
• Tommy Haas (born 1978), German tennis player
• Tommy Henry (born 1969), American football player
• Tommy Finke (born 1981), German singer/songwriter
• Tommy Hilfiger (born 1951), fashion designer
• Tommy Kahnle (born 1989), American baseball player
• Tommy Knight (born 1993), English child actor
• Tommy Lasorda (born 1927), American baseball player
• Tommy La Stella (born 1989), American baseball player
• Tommy Lee (born 1962), drummer for glam metal band Mötley Crüe
• Tommy Lee (footballer) (born 1986), football goalkeeper for Chesterfield F.C.
• Tommy Lee Jones (born 1946), American actor
• Tommy Lloyd (born 1974), American basketball coach
• Tommy Lynn Sells (1964–2014), American serial killer
• Tommy Makem (1932-2007) Irish-American musician
• Tommy Mercer (born 1985), American professional wrestler
• Tommy Northcott (1931–2008), English footballer
• Tommy Onehead, credited as producer of the 2014 album Urge for Offal by the band Half Man Half Biscuit
• Tommy Pangcoga (born 1972), writer and non-government organization worker based in Mindanao
• Tommy Ramone (1951-2014) Hungarian-American musician and record producer, founding member of The Ramones
• Tommy Robredo (born 1982), Spanish tennis player
• Tommy Sale (1910–1990), English footballer
• Tommy Shaw (born 1953), guitarist for the band Styx
• Tommy Simpson (1937–1967), British cyclist who died in the 1967 Tour de France
• Tommy Smith (footballer born 1945), English footballer
• Tommy Solomon (1884–1933), believed by most to have been the last true Moriori, the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands
• Tommy Sotomayor, American radio show host and YouTube personality
• Tommy Steele (born 1936), Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star
• Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. (born 1980), singer and keyboardist of heavy metal band Between the Buried and Me
• Tommy Thompson (born 1941), U.S. politician
• Tommy Tolleson (born 1943), American football player
• Tommy Walsh (builder) (born 1956), English celebrity builder
• Tommy Walsh (hurler) (born 1983), hurler with Kilkenny GAA
• Tommy Walsh (Kerry footballer), Gaelic footballer with Kerry GAA
• Tommy Walsh (Wicklow Gaelic footballer), Gaelic footballer with Wicklow GAA
• Tommy Wiseau, American film producer/director
• Tommy Whelan, American football player
• Tommy February6 and Tommy Heavenly6, the stage names for Japanese singer Tomoko Kawase

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Tommy (comics), former member of the Morlocks in the Marvel Comics universe
• Tommy Atkins, generic nickname for a British soldier (particularly in World War I) and immortalised in Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy"
• Tommy Dawkins, character from Big Wolf on Campus series
• Tommy Garvey, main character in HBO series The Leftovers played by Chris Zylka
• Tommy Gavin, lead character in the FX drama Rescue Me
• Tommy Oliver, one of the most famous characters from the Power Rangers television series portrayed by Jason David Frank
• Tommy Pickles, main character in the Rugrats and All Grown Up! TV series
• Tommy Solomon (3rd Rock from the Sun), one of the main characters from the sitcom
• Tommy Settergren, a Pippi Longstocking character
• Tommy Turnbull, fictional character in the TV series Robotboy
• Tommy Vercetti, protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Films

• Tommy (1931 film), a 1931 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov
• Tommy (1975 film), a 1975 film based on The Who's album Tommy
• Tommy (2015 film), a 2015 Indian film

Literature

• "Tommy" (Kipling poem), included in Rudyard Kipling's 1892 collection Barrack-Room Ballads

Music

• Tommy, 1965 Tommy Adderley album
• Tommy (album), a 1969 The Who album
  • Tommy (EP), a 1970 extended play of songs selected from the album Tommy by The Who
  • Tommy (London Symphony Orchestra album), 1972
  • Tommy (soundtrack), a 1975 soundtrack album by The Who
  • Tommy (original cast recording) 1993 album, redirects to The Who's Tommy, Broadway musical based on The Who's album Tommy
• Tommy (The Wedding Present album), early compilation album by The Wedding Present, 1988
• Tommy (Dosh album), 2010
• "Tommy Gun" (song), a song recorded in 1978 and released as a single by The Clash

Other uses

• British Rail Class 76, an electric locomotive built by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1940, known as "Tommy"
• Thompson submachine gun, also known as the "tommy gun"
• Thomson's gazelle, animals commonly referred to as "tommys"
• Tommy Shark, a name given to Great White Sharks after the wrecking of HMS Birkenhead (1845)
• Tommy's, a UK based charity that funds research into pregnancy problems and provides information to parents (based on the nickname for St Thomas' Hospital)
• Tommy's, California-based hamburger chain formally known as Original Tommy's Hamburgers

See also

• Thomas (name)
• Tommie
• TomEE - Apache TomEE (pronounced "Tommy"), the Java Enterprise Edition of Apache Tomcat