My Tom Brady Blog

For the past year I have been compiling a list of famous men and women. These are all noted individuals, but who are the most famous?Today let us count down the most famous men named Tom.

The most famous Toms (based on online chatter) are:

10 Tom Riddle - Character in the Harry Potter books and movies who becomes Lord Voldemort

9 Tom Watson - PGA Golfer (Eight Major Championships)

8 Tom Welling - actor (Smallville, Cheaper by the Dozen)

7 Tom Green - actor and comedian (Charlie's Angels, Freddy Got Fingered, Stealing Harvard s)

6 Tom Sawyer - Title character in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer novel s

Tom Brady - NFL Quarterback of the New England Patriots

4 Tom Petty - Musician (Learning to Fly, don't Come Around Here No More, Don ' t Do Me Like That)

3 Tom Jones - Musician (why It's Not Unusual, What of New Pussycat?, She ' s A Lady)

2 Tom Hanks - actor (Cast Away, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia)

.. .and the most famous is...

1 Tom Cruise - actor (Risky Business, Mission: Impossible, Jerry Maguire)

Not making the top 10 were T. Baker - actor (Dr Who), T. Bosley - actor (Happy Days, Murder She Wrote), T. Brokaw - Television Journalist (NBC Nightly News), T. Carvel - Founder of Carvell Ice Cream, T. Colicchio - Chef and TV Panel Judge (Top Chef), T. Daschle - Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, T. Kenny - actor (SpongeBob SquarePants), T. Kite - PGA Golfer (One U.S. Open Championship), T. Landry - Former NFL Coach of the Dallas Cowboys, T. Robbins - Author (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume), T. Selleck - actor (Magnum IP, Friends), T. Sharpe - Author (The Gropes, Wilt Omnibus, Porterhouse Blue), T. Snyder - Former Talk Show Host (The Tomorrow Show, The Late Late Show, T. Stoppard - Playwright and Screenwriter (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Brazil, Shakespeare in Love), T. Wilkinson - actor (Recount, John Adams, Michael Clayton), and Tom Wolfe - Author (The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, The Right Stuff).

An excellent mix of occupations for the top ten with two fictional characters (Sawyer and Riddle), two professional athletes (Brady and Watson), two musicians (Jones and Petty), and four actors (Cruise, Hanks, Green, and Welling).

I compiled this list by searching for each person on a number of search engines and rank them by the number of web pages, discussion forums, photos, videos, etc that are available online.