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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 ...

( fl. 1604), English writer * Thomas Wright (engraver) (1792–1849), British engraver and portrait painter *

Thomas Wright (antiquarian) Thomas Wright (23 April 181023 December 1877) was an English antiquarian and writer. Life Wright was born near Ludlow at Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire descended from a Quaker family formerly living at Bradford. He was educated at Ludlow Gram ...

(1810–1877), British antiquarian and writer * Thomas Wright (social commentator) (1839–1909), English social commentator *

Thomas J. Wright Thomas J. Wright is an American television director, film director, artist, and set designer. Wright has directed episodes of ''Smallville'', ''One Tree Hill'', ''Firefly'', and many other programs. He also worked extensively on Chris Carter's ' ...

, film and television director, active since 1986 *

Thomas Lee Wright Thomas Lee Wright is an American author, screenwriter and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. A Minnesota native, Wright attended Harvard University, writing and directing plays and earning a degree in English Literature with honors. He studie ...

, American writer and filmmaker * Thomas M. Wright (born 1983), Australian actor/director

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* 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 (born 1955), North Carolina House of Representatives

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Thomas Wright (astronomer) Thomas Wright (22 September 171125 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulæ were distant ...

(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) (1693-1767), English mathematical instrument maker * Thomas H. Wright (1873–1928), American teacher and electrician

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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 Thomas Forster Wright (November 5, 1830– April 26, 1873) was an officer during the American Civil War. Born at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, he was the son of General George Wright (general), George Wright. Wright served in the 2nd Regiment Cali ...

(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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