- U.S. author and editor.
- U.S. jurist and statesman.
- U.S. patriot and writer on government and religion, born in England.
- Thomas. 1737–1809, American political pamphleteer, born in England. His works include the pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and Crisis (1776–83), supporting the American colonists' fight for independence; The Rights of Man (1791–92), a justification of the French Revolution; and The Age of Reason (1794–96), a defence of deism
