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Thomas Wright (writer) Thomas Wright (1561-1624) was an English recusant and early emotion theorist. Wright is known for his work ''The Passions of the Minde in generall.'' Wright is a possible candidate for the priest Ben Jonson referenced during the trials for th ...

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1604), English writer *

Thomas Wright (engraver) Thomas Wright (2 March 1792, Birmingham – 30 March 1849, London) was an engraver and portrait-painter. Biography He served as an apprentice to Henry Hoppner Meyer, Henry Meyer, and worked for four years as assistant to William Thomas Fry, fo ...

(1792–1849), British engraver and portrait painter * Thomas Wright (antiquarian) (1810–1877), British antiquarian and writer *

Thomas Wright (social commentator) Thomas Wright (12 April 1839 – 19 February 1909) was an English social commentator.Alastair J. Reid, �Wright, Thomas (1839–1909)��, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online edn, Oxford University Press, Oct 2006. Retrieved 18 April ...

(1839–1909), English social commentator * Thomas J. Wright, film and television director, active since 1986 * Thomas Lee Wright, American writer and filmmaker *

Thomas M. Wright Thomas Michael Wright (born 22 June 1983) is an Australian actor, writer, film director and producer. He is the co-founder (2006) and director of theatre company Black Lung and director of the feature film '' Acute Misfortune'' (2019). As an a ...

(born 1983), Australian actor/director

Politics

* Thomas Wright (Lord Mayor) (died 1798), Lord Mayor of London in 1785 *

Thomas C. Wright Thomas C. "Tommy" Wright, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is an American politician. Since 2001 he has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 61st district in the Southside Virginia counties of Amelia, Cumberland, Mecklenburg an ...

(born 1948), American politician *

Thomas E. Wright Thomas Edward Wright (born August 7, 1955) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who represented the state's eighteenth district, including constituents in New Hanover and Pender counties, from 1992 to 2008. A ...

(born 1955), North Carolina House of Representatives

Science

* Thomas Wright (astronomer) (1711–1786), English astronomer and mathematician *

Thomas Wright (geologist) Dr Thomas Wright FRS FRSE FGS (9 November 180917 November 1884) was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist. Wright published a number of papers on the fossils which he had collected in the Cotswolds and elsewhere, including ''Lias Ammonites ...

(1809–1884), Scottish surgeon and paleontologist *

Thomas Wright (mathematical instrument maker) For other uses, see Thomas Wright (disambiguation). Thomas Wright (1693-1767) was a British mathematical instrument maker working in London in the early 18th century. He was appointed "Mathematical Instrument Maker" to the Prince of Wales from 17 ...

(1693-1767), English mathematical instrument maker *

Thomas H. Wright Thomas H. Wright (October 24, 1873 – June 4, 1928) was a teacher and electrician. While working for Portland General Electric, he designed the electrical lighting for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon. Early life ...

(1873–1928), American teacher and electrician

Sports

Thomas Wright (cricketer, born 1842) Thomas Wright (29 April 1842 – date of death unknown) was an English cricketer. Wright was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm slow-medium. He was born at Willington, Derbyshire. Wright made his first-class debut for ...

(1842–?), English cricketer *

Thomas Wright (cricketer, born 1900) Thomas John Wright (5 March 1900 – 7 November 1962) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1919. Born in North Ormesby, near Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, Wright was 19 ...

(1900–1962), English cricketer *

Thomas Wright (rugby) Thomas Wright (18 December 1924 – 2 May 1990) was a Scottish rugby union and rugby league footballer. Rugby union Wright was born in Hawick. He was capped once for in 1947. He also played for Hawick RFC. Rugby league Wright transferred to Le ...

(1924–1990), Scottish rugby union and rugby league player

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Thomas Wright (controversialist) Thomas Wright (d. 1624?), was an English Roman Catholic controversialist, who was ordained priest in the reign of Queen Mary, and became one of the readers of divinity in the English College, Douai at the time of its foundation in 1569. Life ...

(died 1624), English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist *

Thomas Wright (philanthropist) Thomas Wright (1789–1875) was a prison philanthropist. Biography He received his education at a Wesleyan Sunday school, and when fifteen years old was apprenticed to an ironfounder, ultimately becoming foreman of the foundry at £3.10s. a week. ...

(1789–1875), British prison philanthropist *

Thomas Charles Wright Thomas Charles Wright (1799–1868) was an Irish-born naval admiral. He was the founding-father of the Ecuadorian Navy, and a general in Simón Bolívar's army. He is regarded as a leading militarist in Ecuador's and other South American cou ...

(1799–?), Irish-born admiral, founding-father of Ecuadorian Navy *

Thomas Edward Wright Captain Thomas Edward Wright, soldier and penal administrator, of the 39th Regiment was the third commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from August 1827 to 1828. He is reported, by Aaron Price, a convict turned Constab ...

, soldier and penal administrator, commandant at Norfolk Island 1827–28 * Thomas F. Wright (1830–1873), American Union Brevet brigadier general during Civil War *

Thomas Yates Wright Colonel Thomas Yates Wright, MBE, VD (1869–1964) was a British planter, who was a cricketer and legislator in Ceylon. He was a tea planter and served in the Legislative Council of Ceylon and the Senate of Ceylon. Born in Lancashire, Wright we ...

(1869–1964), British planter, cricketer, and legislator in Ceylon

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