Tom Bell (1825-October 4, 1856) was a western outlaw and physician known as the "Outlaw Doc".

Born Thomas J. Hodges in Rome, Tennessee he saw action in the Mexican-American War as a surgeon. Following the war he traveled to California during the California Gold Rush yet was unsuccessful as a prospector later drifting around California as a gambler and as a doctor at times for several years. In 1855 he was serving time in Angel Island Prison for robbery when he met Bill Gristy and successfully escaped several weeks later. With Gristy, Bell formed an outlaw gang of five men and began robbing stages for several months.

However on August 12, 1856 the gang attempted to rob a Camptonville-Maryville stage carrying $100,000 worth of gold bullion in which a woman passenger was killed and two male passengers were wounded before being driven off by the stagecoach guards. The robbery, particularly the death of a women passenger, caused a large scale manhunt for the gang including posses of lawmen and vigilantes alike in a massive search for the gang. By late September Gristy had been captured and, under threat of turning him over to the irate lynch mob outside the jail, confessed the location of Bell. The Sheriff of Stockton raced to arrest him but found Bell hanged near Firebaugh's Ferry on October 4, 1856 by an impromptu posse commanded by Judge George Belt, a Merced River rancher.

Tom Bell (August 2 1933 - October 4 2006) was an English actor on stage, film and television. He was dark-haired, lean, and in his later years often played characters having a sinister side to their nature.

Tom Bell (born 8 January 1981) is an English comedian.

Born in Nottingham and raised in nearby Kegworth, Tom studied History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. As an alternative to studying he began to perform comedy and in 2002 Tom became Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights.

Following his performance in "Today Of All Days" at the Pleasance Theatre, during the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tom was signed to Avalon Management and began pursuing his love of comedy in earnest.

Since then he has performed in two further Edinburgh Fringe Shows: "The Comedy Zone" at the Pleasance Theatre (2004) and "The Last Show Around" at the Cafe Royal (2005).

Now based in London, his stand up has been seen across the UK and within a year of starting out he was to be found supporting the likes of Lee Mack and Chris Addison as well as being asked to perform at De Blaue Montag, Berlin (2004)

Tom's unique style of comedy has marked him out as a rising star in what is still loosely termed the world of alternative comedy and he garnered international praise for his show "Tom Bell Presents" which ran for 4 months on Resonance FM. The show returned for a second run late in 2006.

Tom Bell (1882 - 19 April 1944) was a Scottish socialist politician and trade unionist.

Born in Parkhead, Glasgow, Bell became an steelworker and committed atheist. Committed to educating himself, he attended Andersonian College and the Academy of Literature, and soon lectured for the Plebs League.

Bell joined the Independent Labour Party in 1900, then moved in 1903 to the Marxist Social Democratic Federation. However, within months, he joined with other dissident members to form the Glasgow Socialist Society, soon renamed the Socialist Labour Party (SLP). He became a leading figure in the party, but was expelled in 1907 for arguing that the SLP should not favour the Industrial Workers of the World. He was able to rejoin the following year, convincing the majority of the party to form the Advocates of Industrial Unionism.

Generally continuing to work in the metal trades, Bell briefly joined the Singer Company to organise for the Industrial Workers of Great Britain, but was sacked following the failure of a strike in 1911.

In 1916, Bell was elected to the Clyde Workers Committee, within which he promoted the SLP's policy of industrial unionism. In 1917, he led a successful national strike of engineers and foundry workers. Again prominent in 1919, he was elected President of the Scottish Ironmoulders Union, Secretary of the SLP and editor of its newspaper, The Socialist. He sat on a unity committee, intending to negotiate for a single communist party with leaders of the British Socialist Party, Workers Socialist Federation and other socialist groups, but their proposals were repudiated by the SLP. Resigning as Secretary, he helped found the Communist Unity Group, which became an original constituent of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

Employed by the CPGB, he was initially National Organiser. He then attended the third congress of the Comintern, visiting Moscow for five months, despite the British Government denying him a visa. He was elected to the Comintern's Executive Committee, and returned for the fourth congress, remaining in the city as a CPGB representative and reporter, until the end of 1922.

Bell held various posts within the party, including the editorship of Communist Review. In 1925, he was one of twelve CPGB leaders gaoled for seditious libel and incitement to mutiny, spending six months inside.

The next few years were spent between Britain and Russia. In 1930, he became the Secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, and in 1937 he wrote a history of the CPGB.

Tom Bell was one of the UK's finest actors but he never achieved the star billing or recognition he so richly deserved. His career spanned some 50 years. Time and time again, Bell gave memorable performances. From the able seaman ordered to be flogged by a sadistic officer, played by Dirk Bogarde, in the film, "HMS Defiant" (AKA "Damn the Defiant") to Sergeant Otley in the ITV TV productions, "Prime Suspect" to the vengeful character of Frank Ross in the Euston Films mini-series, "Out". Bell was the consummate professional and he never ever gave a bad performance. When the kitchen sink dramas became fashionable in the 1960s and floods of angry young men emerged onto the scene, he was in good company along with Albert Finney and Tom Courtney to name just a couple. However, in his younger days, he had a British working class rebellious streak which stood in the way of any success he might have had in the UK or US film industry even though he never created problems when working on a production. One incident in the early 1960s probably damaged his career more than any other. A little the worse for drink, he stood up at an awards function and asked Prince Phillip to, "Tell us a joke!" In fact, so the story goes, Prince Phillip handled the problem well by replying, "If you want jokes, you should get a comedian". At the time, Bell was seated at the table of the Producer and Director of, "The L-Shaped Room", namely Richard Attenbourgh and Brian Forbes who, probably seeing their future chances of knighthoods slipping away, urged him to sit down and keep quiet. It was reported that Leslie Caron, who starred with Bell in "The L-Shaped Room", later talked to Prince Phillip who said he was amused by the actor's remarks, even if Attenbourough and Forbes were not. From then on, though not being totally "blacklisted", his reputation as a trouble maker followed him for several years. From the 1970s until he died on October 4th 2006, Bell came into his own with a long list of impressive TV credits. His one venture into Hollywood, was when he appeared in an episode of "The Virginian" and a "B" movie, "In Enemy Country". Bell gave, as usual excellent performances in both productions but Hollywood left him unimpressed and he returned to the UK.