Tom
Tom stands for:
- Short form of the first name Thomas
- in English-speaking countries a prefix for naming masculine individuals, see Tomboy # Etymology
- Short for Tomtom , a cylinder drum in a drum set
- Tom (lyre) , with the Schilluk in South Sudan a five-string lyre, a rainmaker dance and the drum used for it
Tom is the family name of the following people:
- Atir Thomas Tom (* 1987), South Sudanese football player
- Heather Tom (* 1975), American actress
- Kiana Tom (born 1965), American actress
- Lauren Tom (* 1961), Sino-American actress and voice actress
- Léon Tom (1888–?), Belgian fencer and bobsledder
- Logan Tom (* 1981), American volleyball player
- Nicholle Tom (* 1978), American actress
- Noah Nirmal Tom (* 1994), Indian sprinter
- Peter Tom-Petersen (1861–1926), Danish etcher and architectural draftsman
- Richard Tom (1920–2007), American weightlifter
- Vita Tom (1863–1937), traditional leader in Namibia
Tom is the stage name of the following person:
- Lady Tom (* 1978), Swiss techno DJ, music producer and model
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Tom is the name of the following fictional characters:
- by Tom Riddle , called Lord Voldemort, antagonist of Harry Potter
- by Tom Ripley , protagonist in five crime novels by Patricia Highsmith and numerous film adaptations
- by Tom Sawyer, fictional character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- of the protagonist from the children's series Tom and the strawberry jam bread with honey
- of the cat in the animated series Tom and Jerry
- of the dinosaur in a Spanish cartoon series, see Tom (cartoon series)
- of the official mascot of the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, see Vinicius and Tom
as well as from
- Major Tom in David Bowie's song Space Oddity
- Major Tom (completely detached) in the song by Peter Schilling
Tom means geographically:
- Tom (Georgia) , a place in the United States
- Tom (Ob) , a tributary of the Ob in Western Siberia (Russia)
- Tom (Oklahoma) , a location in the United States
- Tom (Seja) , a tributary of the Seja in the Far East of Russia
Tom. is the abbreviation of
- Tomus, Latin, historical name of a section, part or volume of a written work
TOM is an abbreviation for:
- Open mosque day
- T echnical and o rganizational M easures under Art. 32Data Protection Regulation(DS-GMO) (formerly § 9Federal Data Protection Act)
- territoires d'outre-mer , some French overseas territories
- Thomson Airways , British airline under the ICAO code
- Timbuktu ( French: Tombouctou, Mali) according to the IATA airport code
- T ranslocase of o uter mitochondrial m embrane , technical term from biology, see translocase
ToM is an abbreviation for:
- Sound archive of East Hessian dialects
- Theory of Mind , a technical term from psychology
See also:
