Thomas Wilson Meade CBE FRS FRCP (21 January 1936 – 24 October 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He was a pioneer in epidemiology—in particular, in the role blood clotting factors have in cardiovascular disease.^[2]

Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.^[3]

In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,^[4] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.^[5] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.^[3]

Meade held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.^[5]

Meade was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Science",^[6] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996^[3][7] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.^[1]

Tom Meade was a Quaker, attending Hampstead Friends Meeting. He had a son and two daughters, and eight grandchildren.^[8] Meade's son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.^[9] One of his daughters runs the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, Sussex, the other is a NHS medical doctor in London.

Meade died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 86.^[10]