Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

During a radio interview in Birmingham to promote a British tour of Tom Stoppard's play Dirty Linen in the early 1980s, Cleveland confided an embarrassing incident in dress rehearsal.

Despite Port Vale being Matthews ' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion ; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £ 1 a week.

In the summer of 1950, Tom Rolt wrote a letter to the Birmingham Post newspaper suggesting that a rescue of the Talyllyn be undertaken.

Tom Watson was campaign organiser for the Labour Party in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election in July 2004, in which he retained the seat in difficult political times for the party, in the wake of the Iraq War.

One of the few the pro veterans signed center Tom Banks ( a Birmingham native ), who spent ten seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals.

He is the son of Tom York, a longtime television personality from Birmingham, Alabama.

In April and May 2008, Lawrence took the lead role in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and later at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in which she was a secret spymaster given the task of exposing a traitor who is leaking vital information to the Russians.

Lawrence appeared as Madame Ranevskaya in a new version of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, translated by Tom Stoppard, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in autumn 2010.

In recognition of its centenary in December 2009, local MPs Tom Watson, Khalid Mahmood and Richard Burden raised a motion in the House of Commons stating that the House " recognises the value of independent cinemas to the cultural and social life of local communities ; celebrates the continued success of Britain's oldest working cinema, The Electric in Birmingham ; notes that on 2 December 2009 a centenary celebration is taking place for the cinema that started life as a silent movie theatre, became a news theatre during the Second World War and succumbed to dereliction in 2003 ".

* Tom White ( footballer born 1896 ) ( 1896 – 1960 ), English football full-back for Birmingham and Newport County

Its graduates included two future Commissioners, Sir Joseph Simpson and Sir John Waldron ( both 1934 – 1935 ), three Deputy Commissioners, Sir Ranulph Bacon ( 1934 – 1935 ), Douglas Webb ( 1935 – 1936 ) and Sir John Hill ( who later also became HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary ; 1938 – 1939 ), and two Assistant Commissioners, Tom Mahir and Andrew Way ( both 1935 – 1936 ), as well as a number of Chief Constables of provincial forces, including Sir Edward Dodd ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Birmingham, Sir Eric St Johnston ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Oxfordshire, Durham, and Lancashire, and Sir John McKay ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Manchester, all three later HM Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Bernard Bebbington ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Cambridge and John Gaskain ( 1936 – 1937 ) of Cumberland and Westmorland, both later HM Inspectors of Constabulary, Alec Muir ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Durham, Albert Wilcox ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Hertfordshire, Sir Douglas Osmond ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Shropshire and Hampshire, Sir Derrick Capper ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Birmingham and the West Midlands, John Gott ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams ( 1938 – 1939 ) of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, West Sussex, and Sussex, and David Holdsworth ( 1939 ) of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley.

Gannon then brought in Romaine Sawyers and Kayelden Brown on loan from West Bromwich Albion, Jay O ' Shea on loan from Birmingham City, Exodus Geohaghon on loan from Peterborough United, and striker Tom Pope on loan from Rotherham United.

The series features well known performers including Josh Brolin, Gary Busey, Michael Spears, Tonantzin Carmelo, Skeet Ulrich, Steve Reevis, Rachael Leigh Cook, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, Alan Tudyk, Christian Kane, Russell Means, Jay Tavare, David Midthunder, Keri Russell, Graham Greene, Tom Berenger, Gil Birmingham, David Paymer, Raoul Trujillo, Eric Schweig, Lance Henriksen, Simon R. Baker, Tyler Christopher, Tatanka Means, Tokala Clifford, Gordon Tootoosis, Sheila Tousey, and Will Patton.

Tom York ( born 1925 in Holland, Missouri ) is an American television personality, who worked from 1957 to 1989 for WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.

* Tom Evans ( footballer born 1896 ) ( 1896 – after 1926 ), English-born football wing half for Birmingham and Brighton & Hove Albion

Tom Wright is the voice of brum and is an aspiring actor from Birmingham, who still attends High School.

Major was born at the St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major and former Music Hall performer Tom Major-Ball ( né Abraham Thomas Ball ), who was 64 years old when John was born.

* 1980 – Laura Jane Grace ( born Tom Gabel ), American punk rock musician ( Against Me!

As of March 2011, nine former Premiers are alive, the oldest being Tom Lewis ( 1975 – 76, born 1922 ).

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

* May 24 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer ( born 1821 )

* April 21 – Tom O ' Brien, American major league baseball player ( born 1860 )

** Tom Dempsey, who was born with a deformed right foot and right hand, set a National Football League record by kicking a 63-yard field goal to lift the New Orleans Saints to a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.

His second wife is Polish model Nathalie Dyszkiewicz, with whom he has a son, Tom ( born January 10, 1996 ), and a daughter, Serena ( born June 28, 1998 ).

One of those early pioneers was Tom Sims, a devotee of skateboarding ( a sport born in the 1950s when kids attached roller skate wheels to small boards that they steered by shifting their weight ).

* Tom Watson ( born 8 January 1967 ), is the Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for West Bromwich East.

* Hoxton Tom McCourt ( musician / face, born in Hoxton )

Thomas Jeffrey " Tom " Hanks ( born July 9, 1956 ) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director.

Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE ( born 7 June 1940 ), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

Tom Jones was born Thomas John Woodward, at 57 Kingsland Terrace, Treforest, Pontypridd in South Wales.

Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa Collins ( née Bessant ), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins ( died 1988 ), an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, the Beatles and Tom Jones.

* Tom Springfield ( born 1934 ), musician, songwriter, record producer, brother of Dusty ( born Dion O ' Brien )

Thomas Earl " Tom " Petty ( born October 20, 1950 ) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and attended Gainesville High School.

* Tom Sherman ( American football ) ( born 1950 ), American football quarterback

* Tom Howard ( wrestler ) ( born 1969 ), American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, kickboxer and actor

David was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, to Tom and Emma Byrne.

* 1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer

* 1949 – Tom Verlaine, American singer and guitarist ( Television )

* 1949 – Tom Emanski, American baseball player

* 1949 – Tom Joyner, American radio personality

* 1949 – Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster ( d. 1996 )

In early 1949, the first American transcontinental two-way RTTY QSO was accomplished on 11 meters using AFSK between Tom McMullen ( W1QVF ) operating at W1AW and Johnny Agalsoff, W6PSW.

* March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver ( b. 1949 )

In 1949, Tom C. Clark placed the IWW on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations in the category of " organizations seeking to change the government by unconstitutional means " under Executive Order 9835 ( revoked in 1953 ), which offers no means of appeal, and which excludes all IWW members from Federal employment and even federally subsidized housing.

* Tom Howard ( politician ) ( 1880 – 1949 ), Australian politician

The golf-course architect was Tom Bendelow, who also designed Medinah Country Club's Course # 3 in Chicago, a 7, 508-yard ( 7, 385 m ) golf course which has hosted three U. S. Opens ( 1949, 1975, 1990 ) and two PGA Championships ( 1999, 2006 ).

* Tom Brennan ( born 1949 ), radio and television sportscaster and former men's basketball head coach, most notably at the University of Vermont.

* Tom Paulin ( born 1949 ) — poet

* Tom Colbert ( b. 1949 ), Oklahoma State Supreme Court Justice

* Tom Sawyer-California Overture ( 1949 )

In 1949, Tom Tyler played Frank James in the film I Shot Jesse James, an account from Robert Ford's viewpoint, and the first western directed by Samuel Fuller.

* Tom Brown ( pitcher ) ( born 1949 ), American baseball pitcher

* Trigger John's Son ( 1949 ), Tom Robinson, author

By 1949, he was Preston's club captain but had lost his place in the first team, which was struggling against relegation despite having the great Tom Finney in the side.

Tom Berenger ( born Thomas Michael Moore ; May 31, 1949 ) is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated American television and motion picture actor.

Tom Singh OBE ( born 1949 ) is the founder of the New Look chain of high street fashion stores in the United Kingdom.

Thomas " Tom " Joyner ( born November 23, 1949 ) is an American radio host, host of the nationally syndicated The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and also founder of REACH Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb. com.