| Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), English poet and critic |
| David Swing (1830–1894), American clergyman |
| William Swinton (1833–1892), American historian |
| Saint Swithun (d. 862), Bishop of Winchester and patron saint of Winchester Cathedral |
| Syagrius (d. 487), last of the independent Roman administrators of Gaul |
| Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), German historian |
| Charles Edward Poulett Thomson, Baron Sydenham (1799–1841), British statesman |
| Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689), English physician |
| George Sydenham Clarke, Baron Sydenham of Combe (1848–1933), British soldier and administrator |
| Mark Sykes (1879–1919), English traveller and politician |
| Friedrich Sylburg (1536–1596), German classical scholar |
| Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916), author |
| James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), English mathematician |
| Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), English poet |
| James Syme (1799–1870), Scottish surgeon |
| Symeon Metaphrastes (fl. Tenth Century), most renowned of the Byzantine hagiographers |
| Symmachus, name of a celebrated Roman family |
| Symmachus (d. 514), Pope |
| John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), English critic and poet |
| William Samuel Symonds (1818–1887), English geologist |
| Arthur Symons (1865–1945), English poet and critic |
| George James Symons (1838–1900), English meteorologist |
| Symphosius, name given to the author of a collection of 100 riddles of uncertain date |
| Synesius (c. 373–c. 414), Bishop of Ptolemaïs |
| John Millington Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatic author |
| Syrianus (Fourth–Fifth Century?), Greek Neoplatonist philosopher |
| József Szabó (1822–1894), Hungarian geologist |
| László Szalay (1813–1864), Hungarian statesman and historian |
| István Széchenyi (1791–1860), Hungarian statesman |
| Kálmán Széll (1843–1915), Hungarian statesman |
| Ede Szigligeti (1814–1878), Hungarian dramatist |
| Dezső Szilágyi (1840–1901), Hungarian statesman and jurist |
| Eduard, Graf von Taaffe (1833–1895), Austrian statesman |
| Ṭabarī (838?–923), Arabian historian and theologian |
| Tabarin (c. 1584–1633), Parisian street charlatan |
| Tacitus (56–c. 120 A.D.), Roman historian |
| Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c. 200–276), Roman Emperor |
| Lorado Taft (1860–1936), American sculptor |
| William Howard Taft (1857–1930), twenty-seventh President of the United States |
| Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545–1599), Italian surgeon |
| Marie Taglioni (1804–1884), Italian ballet dancer |
| Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Indian poet and author |
| Saint-René Taillandier (1817–1879), French critic |
| Taillefer, surname of a bard and warrior of the 11th century |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828–1893), French critic and historian |
| Taishō (1843–1911), 122nd Emperor of Japan |
| Itagaki Taisuke (1837–1919), Japanese statesman |
| Archibald Campbell Tait (1811–1882), Anglican divine, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819–1905), American artist |
| Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901), Scottish physicist |
| Takhtsingji (1858–1896), Maharaja of Bhaunagar |
| Talbot, English aristocratic family |
| Charles, Baron Talbot (1685–1737), Lord Chancellor of England |
| John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (1383–1453), English soldier |
| Mary Anne Talbot (1778–1808), the “British Amazon” |
| William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), English discoverer in photography |
| Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), English judge and author |
| Taliesin (Sixth Century), British bard |
| Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (1619–1692), French author |
| Talleyrand (1754–1838), French diplomatist and statesman |
| Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767–1820), French Revolutionist |
| Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585), Justly styled “the father of English cathedral music” |
| François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), French actor |
| Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832–1902), American Presbyterian preacher |
| Talvj (1797–1870), German-American authoress |
| Jacob ben Meir Tam (c. 1100–1171), the most famous French glossator (ṭosafist) on the text of the Talmud |
| Manuel Tamayo y Baus (1829–1898), Spanish dramatist |
| Tanaquil, legendary Roman queen |
| Tancred (c. 1075–1112), one of the principal personages of the First Crusade |
| Tancred (d. 1194), King of Sicily |
| James Napper Tandy (1740–1803), Irish rebel |
| Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864), American jurist |
| Sir Richard Tangye (1833–1906), British manufacturer |
| Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), Scottish song-writer |
| Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), American artist, of negro descent |
| Thomas Tanner (1674–1735), English antiquary and prelate |
| Tannhäuser (Thirteenth Century), German Minnesinger |
| Ludwig Samson Arthur, Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen (1815–1881), Bavarian general |
| Arthur Tappan (1786–1865), American merchant and abolitionist |
| Viscounts and Barons Tara |
| Ṭarafah (Sixth Century), Arabian poet |
| Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862–1938), American artist |
| Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944), American authoress |
| Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), French sociologist |
| Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target (1733–1807), French lawyer and politician |
| Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), American writer |
| Sir Banastre Tarleton (1754–1833), English soldier |
| Richard Tarlton (d. 1588), English actor |
| Jan Tarnowski (1488–1561), Polish general |
| Tarpeia, Roman legendary woman |
| Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (d. 579 B.C.), fifth legendary King of Rome |
| Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (r. 534–510 B.C.), seventh and last legendary King of Rome |
| Niccoló Tartaglia (d. 1557), Italian mathematician |
| Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), Italian violinist, composer and musical theorist |
| Abel Janszoon Tasman (c. 1603–1659), greatest of Dutch navigators |
| James Tassie (1735–1799), Scottish gem-engraver and modeller |
| Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), Italian poet |
| Alessandro Tassoni (1565–1635), Italian poet |
| Jamsetji Nasarwanji Tata (1839–1904), Parsee merchant and philanthropist |
| Sir Ratan Tata (1871–1918), Parsee financier and philanthropist |
| Sir Henry Tate (1819–1899), English merchant and founder of the National Gallery of British Art |
| James Tate (1771–1843), English classical scholar and schoolmaster |
| Nahum Tate (1652–1715), English poet laureate and playwright |
| Ralph Tate (1840–1901), British geologist |
| Tatian (c. 120–173), Christian apologist, missionary and heretic |
| Titus Tatius, in Roman legend, the Sabine King of Cures |
| Tattersall, family that founded London horse auction mart |
| Josiah Tattnall (1795–1871), American naval officer |
| Tauchnitz, name of a family of German printers and publishers |
| Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361), German mystic |
| Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton (1798–1869), English politician |
| Nicolaus Taurellus (1547–1606), German philosopher and theologian |
| Hans Tausen (1494–1561), Protagonist of the Danish Reformation |
| Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), American economist |
| Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus (1807–1893), British novelist |
| Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689), French traveller and pioneer of trade with India |
| Ann (1782–1866) and Jane (1783–1824) Taylor, English writers for children |
| Bayard Taylor (1825–1878), American author |
| Brook Taylor (1685–1731), English mathematician |
| George Taylor (1716–1781), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886), English poet and political official |
| Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), English author |
| Isaac Taylor (1829–1901), English philologist |
| Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), English divine and author |
| John Taylor (1580–1653), English pamphleteer, commonly called the “Water-Poet” |
| John Taylor (1704–1766), English classical scholar |
| Joseph Taylor (c. 1586–c. 1653), English actor |
| Meadows Taylor (1808–1876), Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist |
| Michael Angelo Taylor (1757–1834), English politician |
| Nathaniel William Taylor (1786–1858), American Congregational theologian |
| Richard Taylor (1826–1879), American soldier |
| Rowland Taylor (d. 1555), English Protestant martyr |
| Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), English writer, generally called “the Platonist” |
| Tom Taylor (1817–1880), English dramatist and editor of Punch |
| William Taylor (1765–1836), English man of letters |
| William Mackergo Taylor (1829–1895), Scotch-American clergyman |
| Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), twelfth President of the United States |
| Nikolai Vasilievich Tchaikovsky (1851–1926), Russian revolutionary politician |
| Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer |
| Mikhail Grigoryevich Tchernaiev (1828–1898), Russian general |
| Edward Teach (d. 1718), English pirate, popularly known as Blackbeard |
| Tecumseh (1768–1813), American Shawnee chief |
| Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (1827–1871), Austrian admiral |
| Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846), Swedish writer |
| John Shore, Baron Teignmouth (1751–1834), Governor-general of India |
| Pierre-Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (1814–1892), French writer and politician |
| Kashinath Trimbak Telang (1850–1893), Indian judge and oriental scholar |
| Telesilla, Greek poetess |
| Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588), Italian philosopher and natural scientist |
| Telesphorus (d. c. 137), Bishop of Rome |
| Thomas Telford (1757–1834), British civil engineer |
| Charles de Téligny (c. 1535–1572), French soldier and diplomat |
| William Tell, hero of Swiss legend |
| Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734–1804), German Protestant divine |
| Pedro Téllez Girón, Duke of Osuna (1574–1624), Spanish viceroy of Sicily and Naples |
| Marie Tempest (1866–1942), English actress |
| Frederick Temple (1821–1902), English divine, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Sir Richard Temple (1826–1902), English administrator |
| Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl Temple (1711–1779), English statesman |
| Sir William Temple (1628–1699), English statesman, diplomatist, and author |
| Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749), French courtesan and author |
| Pierre Guérin de Tencin (1679–1758), French ecclesiastic, Archbishop of Embrun and Lyons, and Cardinal |
| Teniers, name of a family of Flemish artists |
| Thomas Tenison (1636–1715), English Archbishop |
| Charles Tennant (1768–1838), Scottish industrial chemist |
| Smithson Tennant (1761–1815), English chemist |
| William Tennant (1784–1848), Scottish scholar and poet |
| Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann (1761–1819), German historian of philosophy |
| Sir James Emerson Tennent (1804–1869), English politician and traveller |
| Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914), English humorous and satirical artist |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), English poet |
| Tenskwatawa (1775–1836?), American Indian prophet |
| Terence (c. 195/185–159 B.C.), celebrated Latin playwright |
| Terentianus Maurus (Second Century?), Latin grammarian and writer on prosody |
| Terpander (Seventh Century B.C.), Greek poet and musician |
| William Terriss (1847–1897), English actor |
| Alfred Howe Terry (1827–1890), American soldier |
| Edward O’Connor Terry (1844–1912), English actor |
| Ellen Terry (1847–1928), English actress |
| Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769), German religious writer |
| Tertullian (c. 160–c. 230), earliest and after Augustine the greatest of the ancient church writers of the West |
| Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Electrician and inventor |
| Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695–1770), Swedish statesman |
| Johann Tetzel (c. 1460–1519), preacher and salesman of papal indulgences |
| Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel (1820–1878), German classical scholar |
| Andrew Rutherford, Earl of Teviot (d. 1664), Scottish soldier |
| Tewfik Pasha (1852–1892), Khedive of Egypt |
| Tha’ālibī (961–1038), Arabian philologist |
| William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist |
| Thaïs (fl. Fourth Century B.C.), Greek courtesan |
| Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871), German pianist and composer |
| Thales of Miletus (c. 620–c. 546 B.C.), Greek physical philosopher |
| Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850–1934), American writer |
| Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894), American poet |
| Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), American painter and naturalist |
| Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), American musical critic and writer |
| James Bradley Thayer (1831–1902), American legal writer and educationist |
| Joseph Henry Thayer (1828–1901), American biblical scholar |
| William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) (1859–1923), American writer |
| George McCall Theal (1837–1919), British historiographer |
| Saint Thecla, one of the most celebrated saints in the Greek Church |
| Augustin Theiner (1804–1874), German scholar |
| Themistius (c. 317–c. 388), statesman, rhetorician and philosopher |
| Themistocles (c. 524–c. 459 B.C.), Athenian soldier and statesman |
| Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857), French chemist |
| Theobald (d. 1161), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), English man of letters, playwright and Shakespearian commentator |
| Theocritus (fl. Third Century B.C.), the creator of pastoral poetry |
| Theodectes (c. 380–340 B.C.), Greek rhetorician and tragic poet |
| Theodora (d. 548), Byzantine empress |
| Theodora (Ninth Century), Byzantine empress |
| Theodora (d. 1056), Byzantine empress |
| Theodore, name of two popes |
| Theodore, name of three tsars of Russia |
| Theodore (602–690), seventh Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Theodore I. Laskaris (1174/5–1221?), Emperor of Nicaea |
| Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350–428/9), early Christian theologian |
| Theodoret (c. 393–458), Bishop of Cyrrhus, an important writer in the domains of exegesis, dogmatic theology, church history and ascetic theology |
| Theodoric (454?–526), King of the Ostrogoths, the greatest ruler that the Gothic nation produced |
| Theodorus Studita (759–826), Greek theological writer |
| Theodosius, name of three Roman emperors of the East |
| Theodosius of Tripolis, Greek geometer and astronomer |
| Theodulf (c. 760–821), Bishop of Orléans |
| Theognis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.), of Megara, Greek poet |
| Aelius Theon (First Century A.D.?), Alexandrian sophist |
| Theon of Samos (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek painter |
| Saint Theophanes (d. c. 818), surnamed “the Confessor”, Greek ascetic and chronicler |
| Theophano (958–991), wife of the Roman Emperor Otto II. |
| Theophilus (d. 842), East Roman Emperor |
| Theophrastus (c. 371–287 B.C.), successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school |
| Theophylact (c. 1050–c. 1108), biblical commentator |
| Theopompus of Chios (b. c. 380 B.C.), Greek historian and rhetorician |
| Catherine Théot (1716–1794), French visionary |
| Theramenes (d. 404 B.C.), Athenian statesman |
| Saint Theresa (1515–1582), Spanish nun |
| Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817), Frenchwoman who was a striking figure in the Revolution |
| Thespis (Sixth Century B.C.), Greek poet |
| André Theuriet (1833–1907), French poet and novelist |
| Jean de Thévenot (1633–1667), French traveller in the East |
| Antoine-Clair, Comte Thibaudeau (1765–1854), French politician |
| Thibaut IV. (1201–1253), Count of Champagne and Brie, and King of Navarre, French poet |
| Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1774–1840), German jurist |
| Johann Adolf, Freiherr von Thielmann (1765–1824), Prussian cavalry soldier |
| Augustin Thierry (1795–1856), French historian |
| Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French statesman and historian |
| Friedrich Wilhelm von Thiersch (1784–1860), German classical scholar and educationist |
| Thietmar von Merseburg (975–1018), German chronicler |
| Thomas Thirlby (c. 1506–1570), English prelate |
| Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), English Bishop and historian |
| Arthur Thistlewood (1770–1820), principal instigator of the Cato Street conspiracy |
| Imre Thököly (1657–1705), Hungarian statesman |
| Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (1799–1877), German Protestant divine |
| Hans Thoma (1839–1924), German painter |
| Saint Thomas, one of the Twelve Apostles |
| Saint Thomas à Becket (1118?–1170), English chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471), German mystic |
| Thomas (d. 1100), Archbishop of York |
| Saint Thomas de Cantelupe (c. 1218–1282), English saint and prelate |
| Thomas de Wykes (fl. 1258–1293), English chronicler |
| Thomas of Elmham (1364–1440?), English chronicler |
| Thomas Magister (Thirteenth–Fourteenth Century), Byzantine scholar and grammarian |
| Thomas of Margā (fl. 850), Nestorian Bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac |
| Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397), English noble |
| Thomas the Rhymer (Thirteenth Century), poet and prophet in the legendary literature of Scotland |
| Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896), French musical composer |
| Annie Thomas (1838–1918), English novelist |
| Arthur Goring Thomas (1850–1892), English musical composer |
| Augustus Thomas (1857–1934), American playwright |
| Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925), American poetess |
| George Thomas (c. 1756–1802), British military adventurer in India |
| George Henry Thomas (1816–1870), American general |
| James Henry Thomas (1874?–1949), English Labour politician |
| Joseph Thomas (1811–1891), American lexicographer |
| Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831), American printer |
| Martha Carey Thomas (1857–1935), American educator |
| Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), British inventor |
| Theodore Thomas (1835–1905), American musician |
| William Thomas (d. 1554), English soldier and writer |
| William Cave Thomas (1820–1906), English artist |
| Christian Thomasius (1655–1728), German jurist and publicist |
| George Thomason (d. 1666), English book and tract collector |
| Earl and Marquess of Thomond |
| Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795–1868), American author |
| Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840–1929), English librarian and author |
| Francis Thompson (1859–1907), English poet |
| Sir Henry Thompson (1820–1904), English surgeon |
| John Reuben Thompson (1823–1873), American author |
| Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (1844–1894), Canadian jurist and statesman |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson (1819–1879), American author |
| Launt Thompson (1833–1894), American sculptor |
| Maurice Thompson (1844–1901), American author |
| Robert Ellis Thompson (1844–1924), American educator |
| Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809–1900), American public man |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851–1916), English physicist |
| Thomas Perronet Thompson (1783–1869), English political writer and mathematician |
| William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), English classical scholar and master of Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Grímur Thomsen (1820–1896), Icelandic poet and man of letters |
| Julius Thomsen (1826–1909), Danish chemist |
| Charles Thomson (1729–1824), American patriot |
| Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830–1882), Scottish naturalist |
| James Thomson (1700–1748), English poet, author of The Seasons |
| James Thomson (1822–1892), British physicist and engineer |
| James Thomson (1834–1882), British poet |
| John Thomson (1778–1840), Scottish landscape painter |
| Joseph Thomson (1858–1895), Scottish explorer in Africa |
| Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940), British physicist |
| Thomas Thomson (1773–1852), Scottish chemist |
| William Thomson (1819–1890), English divine, Archbishop of York |
| Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (1798–1872), Dutch statesman |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American recluse, naturalist and writer |
| Magdalene Thoresen (1819–1903), Norwegian novelist |
| Thorfinn Karlsefni (fl. 1002–1007), Scandinavian explorer |
| George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876), English author |
| Will Thorne (1857–1946), British Labour politician |
| Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734), English historical painter |
| Henry Thornton (1760–1815), English banker and economist |
| Matthew Thornton (1714?–1803), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| William Thomas Thornton (1813–1880), English economist |
| William Hamo Thornycroft (1850–1925), British sculptor |
| Jón Thóroddsen (1818–1868), Icelandic poet and novelist |
| Porvaldur Thóroddsen (1855–1921), Icelandic geographer |
| Robert Thoroton (1623–1678), English antiquary |
| Benjamin Thorpe (1782–1870), English Anglo-Saxon scholar |
| John Thorpe (fl. 1570–1618), English architect |
| Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), Danish sculptor |
| Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617), French historian |
| Jacques-Guillaume Thouret (1746–1794), French revolutionist |
| Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (First Century A.D.), Roman senator and Stoic philosopher |
| Thrasybulus (d. 388 B.C.), Athenian general |
| Thrasymedes (Fourth Century B.C.?), Greek sculptor |
| Edward Thring (1821–1887), English schoolmaster |
| Francis Throckmorton (1554–1584), English conspirator |
| Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515–1571), English diplomatist and politician |
| Thucydides (c. 460–c. 395 B.C.), Athenian historian |
| Franz Maria von Thugut (1736–1818), Austrian diplomatist |
| Moritz August von Thümmel (1738–1817), German humorist and satirical author |
| Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish naturalist |
| Thun-Hohenstein, Austrian noble family |
| Gustave Thuret (1817–1875), French botanist |
| John Thurloe (1616–1668), English politician |
| Edward, Lord Thurlow (1731–1806), English Lord Chancellor |
| Allen Granbery Thurman (1813–1895), American jurist and statesman |
| Thurstan (c. 1070–1140), Archbishop of York |
| Ernest Temple Thurston (1879–1933), English novelist |
| Robert Henry Thurston (1839–1903), American mechanical engineer |
| Tiberius (42 B.C.–37 A.D.), Roman Emperor |
| Tibullus (c. 55–19 B.C.), Latin elegiac poet |
| The Tichborne Claimant |
| Thomas Tickell (1686–1740), English poet and man of letters |
| George Ticknor (1791–1871), American educator and author
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