Tom or Thomas Knight may refer to:
Politicians
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Thomas Knight (Australian politician) (born 1935), Australian politician
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Thomas Knight (MP for Shrewsbury) (c. 1475–1518/20), English politician
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Thomas Knight (MP for Kent)
Thomas Knight (15 May 1735 – 23 October 1794) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1761 and 1780.
Knight was the son of Thomas Knight (previously known as Brodnax and May) of Godmersham and his wife ...
(1735–1794), English politician
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Thomas Knight (MP for Canterbury)
Thomas Knight (ca. 1701 – 26 February 1781) previously Thomas Brodnax (1701–1726) and Thomas May (1727–1738), of Godmersham Park, Kent, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741.
Early l ...
(c. 1701–1781), English politician
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Thomas E. Knight
Thomas E. Knight, Jr. (June 19, 1898 – May 17, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from 1935 to 1937, as well as the 19th Attorney General of Alabama from 1931 to 1935. He was a n ...
(1898–1937), American lawyer and politician
Sports
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Tommy Knight (footballer) (1865–?), English footballer
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Tom Knight (cricketer) (born 1993), Derbyshire cricket player
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Tom Knight (American football)
Thomas Knight (born December 29, 1974) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He also played for the Baltimore Ravens.
Knight pla ...
(born 1974), former American football cornerback
Actors
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Thomas Knight (actor)
Thomas Knight (died 1820), actor and dramatist, was born in Dorset of a family of no great wealth.
Early career
He was intended for the legal profession, and received from Charles Macklin, the actor, lessons in elocution. A favourite with Mackl ...
(died 1820), English actor and dramatist
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Tom Knight (actor), played Mr Granger in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''
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Tommy Knight (born 1993), child actor, best known for playing Luke Smith in ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''
Others
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Thomas Andrew Knight (1759–1838), horticulturalist and botanist
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Tom Knight (scientist)
Tom Knight is an American synthetic biologist and computer engineer, who was formerly a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a part of the MIT School of Engineering. He now works at the sy ...
, American computer scientist
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Thomas Knight (murderer)
Thomas Otis Knight (February 4, 1951 – January 7, 2014) was an American fugitive who was executed in Florida for murder. In 1974, Knight murdered a Miami couple after forcing them to withdraw $50,000 USD from a bank. While awaiting trial, Knight ...
(1951–2014), American serial killer
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