Thomas Gatch

• Thomas Benton Gatch, Confederate Army officer in the American Civil War and post-war politician and businessman
• Thomas M. Gatch, president of Willamette University, Oregon Agricultural College, and the University of Washington
• Thomas Leigh Gatch, American vice admiral, judge advocate general of the Navy and attorney, grandson of Thomas M. Gatch
• Thomas Leigh Gatch, Jr., son of the vice admiral, disappeared while attempting to make the first Transatlantic crossing by a balloon