Tom Newman (born Tom Pratt, 1894; died 1943) was an English professional player of snooker and English billiards.

He established himself as one of the best billiards players of the 1920s, appearing in every World Professional Billiards Championship final between 1921 and 1930, and winning the title six times.

Newman was a great break builder at billards, and was a master of the cannon shot. His first century break at the "three ball game" came when he was just 11 years of age; and in the 1930-31 season he made over 30 breaks of 1000.

Like so many players of that era he regarded snooker as the less "serious" of the two sports, but nevertheless he made an officially recognized record snooker break of 89 in 1919, and in 1934 reached the World Championship final. He met the legendary Joe Davis in that final - a predictable clash, since they were the only two contestants.

That same year he met Davis in the United Kingdom Billiards final and again Newman came out second best. He met Davis in six World finals, the honours being equally distributed overall at three wins each.

Newman died in 1943, just short of his 50th birthday.

Tom Newman (born 1943) is an English record producer and musician (Rhythm guitar). Tom Newman was born in Perivale. In 1968 he played in a band called "July" whose only album, also called "July" (Major Minor) is one of the most valuable UK psychedelic albums.

In 1970, he began working with Richard Branson and helped building the The Manor Studio in Oxford. He met there the 18-year old Mike Oldfield, who lent him a rough demo tape of what should become a famous recording of the 1970s, Tubular Bells.

Tom Newman released some albums as a solo musician and produced several albums for other artists, most notably with Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells, Tubular Bells II, Heaven's Open).

Tom Newman, a graduate student at Stanford University in 1985, was one of the two people to solve one of a pair of challenges put forth by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman at the annual meeting of the Americal Physical Society in 1959, in a talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". Gribbin, John. "Richard Feynman: A Life in Science" Dutton 1997, pg 170.

In December of that year, Feynman offered two challenges at the meeting, held that year in Caltech, offering a $1000 prize to the first person to solve each of them. Both challenges involved nanotechnology, and the first prize was won by William McLellan.

The second challenge was for anyone who could find a way to write small enough to get the entire Encyclopædia Britannica on the head of a pin, a reduction of 25,000 times from its standard print.

Newman claimed the prize when he wrote the first page of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, at the required scale, on the head of a pin with a beam of electrons. The main problem he had before he could claim the prize was finding the text after he had written it; the head of the pin was a huge empty space compared with the text inscribed on it.