Thomas or Tom Lea may refer to: *

Sir Thomas Lea, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Lea, 1st Baronet (17 January 1841 – 9 January 1902) was an English carpet manufacturer from Kidderminster, and a Liberal Party politician. Family history Thomas Lea was born at The Larches, near Kidderminster, in 1841, the eldest so ...

(1841–1902), English carpet manufacturer from Kidderminster and politician * Thomas Calloway Lea Jr. (1877–1945), mayor of El Paso, Texas, 1915–17 *

Thomas C. Lea III Thomas Calloway Lea III (July 11, 1907 – January 29, 2001) was an American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian. The bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his Worl ...

(1907–2001), son of Thomas C. Lea, Jr., muralist, artist, illustrator, author, ''LIFE'' war artist and correspondent * Thomas Gibson Lea (1785–1844), American botanist * Tom Lea (footballer), English footballer * Thomas Lea (miller) (1757–1794), member of a prominent flour milling family in Wilmington, Delaware * Massa Tom Lea, slave owner and ancestor of Alex Haley in ''

Roots: The Saga of an American Family ''Roots: The Saga of an American Family'' is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America; it follows h ...

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