Tom Sawyer

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Tom Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The name may also refer to:

Film adaptations of the novel

Tom Sawyer, a 1907 silent film produced by Kalem Studios
Tom Sawyer, a 1930 film starring Jackie Coogan as Tom
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), a 1938 film featuring Walter Brennan in a major supporting role as Muff Potter
Tom Sawyer, a 1973 musical film in which Jodie Foster appeared
Tom Sawyer, a different 1973 film in which Buddy Ebsen appeared
Tom and Huck, a 1995 film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro
Tom Sawyer, an animated film made in 2000 that featured anthropomorphic animal characters
''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001 Broadway Musical), a two-act Broadway musical written by Ken Ludwig and composed by Don Schlitz
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) featured a dramatically different version of the Tom Sawyer character. In this adaption, Sawyer is portrayed as having grown up to become a government agent embittered over the loss of his friend and fellow agent Huck Finn (In "behind the scenes" footage contained on the DVD release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen the writers tell of Sawyer's depiction as a detective in some later Twain novels, notably, Tom Sawyer, Detective as the inspiration for this character's outline). The comic version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" did not feature this character.
Tom Sawyer no Boken, a 1980 cartoon by Nippon Animation Co, Meisaku and WMT.

Tom Sawyer, a song by the Canadian band Rush
Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer, a British politician and trade unionist
Tom Sawyer Island is part of Frontierland in Disneyland
Thomas C. Sawyer, a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Ohio from 1987 to 2003
Tom Sawyer (Kansas politician).
"Tom" Sawyer State Park is a state park in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Thomas Sawyer is the name of an Internet vigilante who got revenge against Amir Massoud Tofangsazan after allegedly being defrauded via eBay.