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Also Known As Thomas the Twin • Judas Thomas
Born Galilee? • Israel
Died 53 • Chennai • India

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Saint Thomas
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Lucy Whitehead McGill Waterbury Peabody
American missionary
William Carey.
William Carey
British missionary
Amanda Smith
American religious leader
Giovanni da Montecorvino
Franciscan missionary
Duff, Alexander
Alexander Duff
Scottish minister
T.F. Middleton.
T.F. Middleton
British missionary
Jean-Antoine Dubois, detail of a lithograph by F.-S. Delpech
Jean-Antoine Dubois
French missionary
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian leader
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
prime minister of India
Amit Shah
Amit Shah
Indian politician
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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Lord Curzon
Lord Curzon
British foreign secretary
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Pakistani governor-general
Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi
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Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator
Parkash Singh Badal
Parkash Singh Badal
Indian politician
Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
prime minister of India
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
prime minister of United Kingdom