Thomasina
Thomasina, 'Thomasine, or Thomasena is the feminine form of the given name Thomas, which means "twin". Thomasina is often shortened to Tamsin. Tamsin can be used as a name in itself; variants of Tamsin include Tamsyn, Tamzin, Tamsen, Tamzen, Tammi, Tamzie and Tamasin'. The version "Tamsin" is especially popular in Cornwall and Wales. Along with Tamara it is the ancestor of "Tammy".
People named Thomasina (and variants)
Tammi
- Tammi Patterson, Australian tennis player
- Tammi Terrell, American recording artist
Tammie
- Tammie Jo Shults, American commercial airline captain, author, and retired naval aviator
Tamsen
- Tamsen Donner, third wife of George Donner of the Donner Party
- Tamsen Fadal, American journalist, news anchor, author and host/executive producer
- Tamsen McGarry, Irish alpine skier
- Emil Tamsen, South African philatelist
Tamsin
- Tamsin Blanchard, British fashion journalist
- Tamsin Carroll, Australian actress
- Tamsin Cook, Australian swimmer
- Tamsin Dunwoody, sometimes known as Tamsin Dunwoody-Kneafsey, British politician
- Tamsin Edwards, British climate scientist
- Tamsin Egerton, British actress
- Tamsin Ford, British psychiatrist specialising in children's mental health
- Tamsin Greenway, English netball player
- Tamsin Greig, British actress
- Tamsin Heatley, British actress and voice artist
- Tamsin Hinchley, Australian volleyball player
- Tamsin Mather, British Professor of Earth Sciences
- Tamsin Pickeral, British author and art historian
- Tamsin West, Australian actress and singer
Tamsyn
- Tamsyn Challenger, Cornish artist
- Dame Tamsyn Imison, British educator
- Tamsyn Leevey New Zealand squash player
- Tamsyn Manou, Australian athlete and middle-distance runner
- Tamsyn Muir, New Zealand author of fantasy, science fiction and horror genres
- Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow, British Labour politician
Tamzin
- Tamzin Malleson, British actress
- Tamzin Merchant, British actress
- Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
- Tamzin Thomas, South African sprinter
Thomasin
- Thomasin von Zirclaere or Tommasino Di Cerclaria, Italian Middle High German lyric poet.
- Thomasin McKenzie, New Zealand actress
Thomasina
- Thomasina Jordan, American Indian activist who became the first American Indian to serve in the United States Electoral College
- Thomasina Miers, British chef
- Thomasina Pidgeon, Canadian rock climber
- Thomasina Winslow, American blues musician
- Thomazina Muliercula, English jester at the court of Elizabeth I
Thomasine
- Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish author
- Thomasine, Lady Percival, Cornish benefactress
- Thomas(ine) Hall, an intersex individual in British America
- Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, Danish courtier
Fictional Thomasinas
- Beatrix Potter's Thomasina Tittlemouse.
- Tamsin Yeobright from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. Her name is given alternately as Tamsin or Thomasin throughout the book.
- Thomasina, the feline heroine of the 1957 book Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was God by Paul Gallico and The Three Lives of Thomasina, a 1964 Disney film based on the book.
- Thomasina, a character in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
- Thomasina, a character in the television series Kings.
- "Thomasina", a song by The Besnard Lakes.
- Tamsin, a character in the television series Lost Girl.
- Thomasin, a character in Robert Eggers' 2015 film The Witch.
- Tamasin Reedbourne, a character in C. J. Sansom's Shardlake book series.
- Thomasina Tuckerton, a character in Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse.