# Black Tom

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**Black Tom** may refer to:

- "Black Tom", nickname of [Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond](/source/Thomas_Butler,_10th_Earl_of_Ormond) (c.1531–1614), Irish peer and Lord Treasurer of Ireland in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
- "Black Tom", nickname of [Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron](/source/Thomas_Fairfax,_3rd_Lord_Fairfax_of_Cameron) (1612–1671), English Civil War Parliamentary general
- "Black Tom", an informal name of a neighborhood within the [Harpur](/source/Harpur) ward of Bedford, England, named after a notorious highwayman who operated in the area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- [Black Tom explosion](/source/Black_Tom_explosion) (30 July 1916), Jersey City, New Jersey; act of World War I sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent shipments to the Allies
- [Black Tom Cassidy](/source/Black_Tom_Cassidy) (created October 1976), a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men
- A game of tag; see [British Bulldog (game) § Black Tom](/source/British_Bulldog_(game)#Black_Tom)

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