Famous Toms

19th century American inventor widely credited with inventing the phonograph and the electric lightbulb

Prolific American actor who won the 1993 and 1994 Academy Awards for Best Actor for his respective starring roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump

Third President of the United States, widely recognised as the primary author of the 1776 Declaration of Independence

English statesman and social philosopher who wrote "Utopia"

Diminutive American actor whose myriad on-screen credits include Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible films, Charlie Babbit in Rain Man, and Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July

Among this English writer's most famous works are "Far from the Madding Crowd", "Tess of the d'Urbevilles" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge"

This philosopher and author of "Leviathan" argued for government by an all-powerful sovereign monarch

Author of "The Hunt for Red October" famed for his enduring literary protagonist Jack Ryan

According to this humorist, satire died the day Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Between 2001 and 2019, this man played as quarterback for the New England Patriots

Marxist revolutionary who served as Burkina Faso's first president from 1983 until his assassination in 1987

Lead singer of Radiohead

Moustachioed actor best known for his starring role in Magnum P.I.

American singer-songwriter who was the lead singer of The Heartbreakers

This actor starred as the scarf-wearing fourth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who

The career of English lawyer and chief minister to Henry VIII was depicted in Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" fiction trilogy

In 2015, this British actor was cast as Peter Parker in the Spider-Man movies

Social philosopher and author of "The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason" whose ideas influenced both the French and American Revolutions

"What's New Pussycat?", asked this Welsh crooner

Poet of "The Hollow Men", "The Wasteland" and, latterly,"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"

Former lead singer of Credence Clearwater Revival

"Turbulent" Archbishop of Canterbury whose murder was allegedly sanctioned by Henry II

Thriller writer famed for creating the cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter

American actor who starred as Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes in Platoon

During the First World War, this British Army officer had a leading role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire