David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 - January 8, 2002) was an American restaurateur and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002-more than any other person in television history.

David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Dundas, Ontario with his family where he attended elementary and secondary school. He attended Dundas District high school and graduated with honours from McMaster University in nearby Hamilton, Ontario.

The Dave Thomas Comedy Show (later simply Dave Thomas) was a sketch-based, half-hour, five-week summer replacement series, which aired on CBS in the summer of 1990. The show starred Canadian comedian Dave Thomas.

Also featured were Anson Downes, Teresa Ganzel, Don Lake, Fran Ryan, Julie Fulton and David Wiley. Dave had a lot of his friends and The Second City colleagues on the show, with each show featuring a big name guest star. These were John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara. Also included were Valerie Bromfield and Rick Overton. The series debuted May 28, 1990.

Dave Thomas is a physicist and mathematician, mostly known for his writings and research on the paranormal (such as UFO sightings in Roswell, New Mexico and Aztec, New Mexico, as well as finding codings in other texts that dispute the credibility of the Bible Code).

Thomas is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and a masters degree in mathematics. He is known for his work blank">debunking the _Bible code.

Thomas is currently president of blank">New Mexicans for Science and Reason and a past president of the New Mexico Academy of Science, and is also a Fellow of the _Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby.

Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote the The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company.

Dave Thomas lives in Dallas, Texas. He moved to the United States from England in 1994.

Dave has also coined the phrase 'Code Kata'.

Dave Thomas, born October 5, 1950 in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, England is a former professional footballer and England international who played as a midfielder.

He had a long and successful playing career, playing for almost 20 years and totalling over 450 league appearances whilst playing for Burnley, QPR, Everton, Vancouver Whitecaps, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He won 8 England caps overall whilst at Queens Park Rangers. His first England cap was given to him by manager Don Revie on October 30, 1974 in a 3-0 win against Czechoslovakia. He set up the first goal in the game.

He now works as a PE teacher at the Bishop Luffa School in Chichester.

Dave Thomas (born 16 August 1934) is a Welsh professional golfer.

Dave Thomas was one of Britain's foremost golfers of the 1950s and 1960s, winning over a dozen tournaments in Britain and Europe, and twice finishing second in Open Championship. In 1958, he tied with Peter Thomson at Lytham before narrowly losing the playoff, and in 1966, finished just one shot behind Jack Nicklaus. He represented Great Britain in the Ryder Cup in 1959, 1963, 1965 and 1967, accumulating a 3-10-5 win-loss-half record, but was only once beaten in five singles matches. He was renowned for his long, straight, driving, once hitting a drive at Hoylake onto the green at the 420-yard second hole. After retiring he set up a golf course design business. His dozens of original designs include the Brabazon, Derby and PGA National courses at Ryder Cup venue The Belfry, and his redesigns include the Open Championship venue Turnberry.

Dave G. Thomas (born August 25, 1968 in Miami, Florida) is a former professional American football defensive back who played nine seasons in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars, and the New York Giants. Before his NFL career, he played for the University of Tennessee and was drafted by the Cowboys in the 8th round of the 1993 NFL Draft.

David Watkin John "Dave" Thomas (born Stepney, 6 July 1917, died Dovercourt, 30 March 1991) was an English professional football (soccer) player. His clubs included Watford and Gillingham. He made over 250 Football League appearances in his career.

Dave Thomas (born December 4, 1976 in Canada) is an Canadian professional basketball player currently playing in Australia's National Basketball League for the Melbourne Tigers.

Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Dave was the eldest son of John and Moreen Thomas. John Thomas (deceased) was a PHD in Philosophy (Duke), noted medical ethicist, head of Philosophy Department at McMaster University, and author of several books including: "Matters of Life and Death," "Well and Good," "Medical Ethic and Human Life." Moreen Thomas (living) was a church organist for 30 years and noted composer of church music. Brother, Ian Thomas (I) is a noted Canadian musician and composer whose songs have been covered by bands like America (II), Chicago, Air Supply (Russell Hitchcock & Graham Russell (I)), Bette Midler, and Manfred Mann. Starting his career at ad agency McCann Erickson, after one year, Dave became the head writer of the Coca-Cola account. He then moved from the Toronto office to New York at the request of agency client Coca-Cola. Dave left advertising after three years to work at Second City Company in Toronto with Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Gilda Radner, and Eugene Levy. He subsequently co-founded NBC's critically acclaimed comedy series "Second City TV" (1976), along with co-stars Harold Ramis (I), Catherine O'Hara (I), Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin (I), and John Candy. During the show's five-year run, Dave won an Emmy Award, 4 Emmy nominations for his comedy writing, an ACTRA Award for Best Variety Performer and the Earl Grey Award in 1993. With Rick Moranis, Dave co-created the infamous McKenzie Brothers and co-starred in the cult hit comedy film Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, The (1983) (MGM). Strange Brew won the Golden Reel Award for the highest box office grossing movie in Canada in 1983. The duo won Gold and Platinum Albums and a Grammy nomination. Since the film's release in 1982, the McKenzie Brothers have become a 20-year-plus enduring franchise, and Thomas and Moranis have licensed the characters to the following companies -- NBC, CBC, Polygram, MGM, Pizza Hut, Mr. Lubbe, Miller Brewing, Molsons Brewing, Todd McFarlane Toys and Disney. Dave has written, directed, produced, and co-starred in television shows for all the major networks -- most notably "Dave Thomas Comedy Show, The" (1990) (CBS) and "Grace Under Fire" (1993) (ABC). He was co-creator and co-executive producer of "America's Funniest People" (1990) (ABC). He wrote and directed the M.O.W. Ghost Mom (1993) (TV) (Fox) starring Jean Stapleton and Geraint Wyn Davies and starred in the M.O.W.'s Kids in the Woods (Disney) and Picture Perfect (1995) (TV) (ABC). He has voiced animated shows like "Simpsons, The" (1989), Duckman, Catdog, Dilbert, Animaniacs, Justice League of America for Warners and Tarzan for Disney. He has appeared in numerous feature films, including Stripes with Bill Murray (I) and Harold Ramis (I), Spies Like Us (1985) (Dave was also co-writer with Aykroyd) with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, Experts, The (1989) (Dave directed) starring John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Boris & Natasha with Sally Kellerman, Coneheads with Dan Aykroyd, and most recently Rat Race with John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cuba Gooding Jr.. In 2001, Dave played a featured role in the theatrical features Who's Your Daddy and Call Me Irresponsible (Norstar). Dave is currently voicing a major role along with Joaquin Phoenix and Rick Moranis in the upcoming full-length Disney animated feature Bears due for theatrical release in 2004. In 1996, Mr. Thomas wrote a book, "SCTV Behind the Scenes". It is currently in its second printing. Mr. Thomas' production company, Maple Palm Productions, produced an Ace nominated comedy special for Showtime entitled The Time Travels of Henry Osgood starring Bronson Pinchot, Catherine O'Hara (I), John Candy, Martin Short (I), and Joe Flaherty (I), a special for CBS in 1990 entitled "Standup at Forty" starring Gary Shandling, Bonnie Hunt, Martin Short, George Plimpton and Richard Belzer. In 1992 Maple Palm produced another comedy special, this time for ABC entitled "Inside American's Unsolved Mysteries". In 1994, Maple Palm produced a reality pilot for ABC entitled "Family Challenge" (1995). ABC elected not to pick up the series, so Maple Palm produced 130 hour-long episodes of "Family Challenge" (1995) for the Family Channel with Woody Fraser. In 1999, Maple Palm Productions and Dave Thomas produced Ambushed (1998) a movie for HBO, starring Courtney B. Vance, Virginia Madsen, and David Keith (I), directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. Ambushed (1998) was the highest rated television show in its time slot when it first aired in 1999. Currently, Dave is a partner in Animax Interactive, an online production company creating sponsored interactive content and designing Web Pages for such companies as Ford, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers and Verizon. Dave lives in Malibu, California with his wife Kim and three children John, Emily and Harry.

Dave Thomas is a founding partner and President of Animax Entertainment, an animation company based in Culver City with an office in Toronto. Animax does a lot of work for Disney, won a broadband animation Emmy for "Off Mikes" (ESPN) in 2006. Animax animates a show called "Slacker Cats" for ABC Family and another show for BET entitled "Bufu". The company has 60 writers and artists working for clients like Kodak, AOL, Sesame, Warner Brothers, National Geographic, and MGM.