Thomas Watson may refer to:
Bishops Thomas Watson (bishop of Lincoln) (1515–1584), Catholic bishop Thomas Watson (bishop of St Davids) (1637–1717), English clergyman
Writers Thomas Watson (poet) (1555–1592), English poet and translator Thomas Watson (Puritan) (–1686), nonconformist preacher and writer Tom Watson (journalist) (born 1962), journalist and author
Sportsmen
Association Football Tom Watson (football manager) (1859–1915), English football manager Tom Watson (footballer, born 1860s) (1868 or 1869 – 1902), English football goalkeeper for Small Heath Tom Watson (Australian footballer) (1874–1920), Australian rules footballer Tom Watson (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1978), Ireland international football player Tom Watson (footballer, born 1904) (1904–1979), footballer for Rochdale Gordon Watson (footballer, born 1914) (Thomas Gordon Watson, 1914–2001), English footballer for Everton Tommy Watson (footballer, born 1943), Scottish football winger Tommy Watson (footballer, born 1969), English football player Tommy Watson (footballer, born 2006), footballer for Brighton & Hove Albion
Cricket Thomas Watson (cricketer, born 1880) (1880–1944), English clergyman and cricketer Thomas Watson (Scottish cricketer) (1896–1974) Thomas Watson (cricketer, born 1913) (1913–1994), English cricketer and educator Other Sports Tommy Watson (boxer) (1908–1971), English boxer Tom Watson (golfer) (born 1949), American golfer Tom Watson (fighter) (born 1982), mixed martial artist
Politicians Thomas Watson (silk spinner) (1823–1887), British politician; MP for Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1885–1887 Thomas E. Watson (1856–1922), American politician; Populist leader; U.S. senator from Georgia Thomas Philip Watson (1933–2015), American politician; Oklahoma state senator Thomas R. Watson (born 1947), American politician; Maine state representative Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham (1715–1746), English nobleman and politician; MP for Canterbury Thomas Watson (Berwick-upon-Tweed MP) (–1766), British politician; MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1754–1765 J. Thomas Watson (1885–1954), Florida attorney general Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest (born 1967), British politician; former deputy leader of the Labour Party; and former MP for West Bromwich East Thomas Watson (died before 1621) English member of parliament
Businesspeople Thomas J. Watson (1874–1956), first president of IBM Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914–1993), second president of IBM and son of Thomas J. Watson
Artists Thomas Watson (engraver) (1750–1781), fine engraver T. H. Watson (Thomas Henry Watson, 1839–1913), British architect Thomas Lennox Watson (1850–1920), Scottish architect and interior designer Tom Watson (actor) (1932–2001), Scottish-born stage, television and film actor Yannima Tommy Watson (–2017), Australian artist
Others Thomas A. Watson (1854–1934), inventor and assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone Tom Watson (musician) (born 1962), American guitarist Thomas E. Watson (USMC) (1892–1966), U.S. Marine Corps general Thomas Watson (surveyor), early Western Australian surveyor Thomas Watson (trade unionist) (1860–1921), British trade union leader Thomas Colclough Watson (1867–1917), British recipient of the Victoria Cross Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet (1792–1882), British physician and president of the Royal College of Physicians, 1862–66 Thomas Watson (Royal Navy officer) (died 1744), British navy captain