Skip to content
Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB

EntityQ153289· pop 12· linked from 100 articles

Tom Robinson

Sign in to save

Also known as Thomas Augustus Robinson, Thomas Robinson

Bahamian sprinter (1938–2012)

Person · Open Library

Born
1964
Works
25

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1950-06-01
classic pop and rockhard rocknew wavepop rockpunk

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
30,764
Total plays
229,810

Tags

new wavefolk rockrocksinger-songwriterUK

Tom Robinson (b. 1st June 1950) is an English musician. Born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, Robinson was the founding member of the Tom Robinson Band, an overtly political band with several hits in the 1970s, such as "2-4-6-8 Motorway" and "Power in the Darkness". Robinson's other best known song is "Glad to be Gay", and he was an outspoken hero of the gay movement in the 1970s. In the 1980s he fronted Sector 27, another highly political rock band, which released one album and left Ro

via Last.fm · Tom Robinson

Sports profile

Sport
Rugby
Team
Blues Super Rugby
Position
Lock
Nationality
New Zealand

via TheSportsDB

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Thomas
Family name
Robinson
Gender
male
Citizenship
The Bahamas
Place of birth
Nassau
Place of death
Nassau
Occupation
sprinter
Participant in
1956 Summer Olympics
Country for sport
The Bahamas
Mass
82
Image
Tom Robinson (athlete).png
Height
180
Show 7 more facts
different from
Tom Robinson
date of birth
1938-03-16
Commons category
Tom Robinson (athlete)
date of death
2012-11-25
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
cancer
sports discipline competed in
sprinting
Sources (4)

via Wikidata · CC0