Thom Yorke (Thomas Edward Yorke) was born on October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the band Radiohead.

He has also recorded as a solo artist; he released his debut album, The Eraser, in July 2006, and has collaborated with many other artists.

Yorke mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions). Yorke is also an electronic musician, and The Eraser was heavily influenced by electronic music.

In 2005, Yorke, along with his manager Nate Jackson, became spokesmen for Friends of the Earth and their campaign to reduce carbon emissions. He has one brother, Andy, ex-vocalist of the band the Unbelievable Truth.

Yorke currently lives in central Oxford with his partner, Rachel Owen, a printmaker who holds a doctorate in art history, and their two children, Noah, born in 2001 (to whom the Radiohead album Amnesiac was dedicated) and Agnes, born 2004 (to whom Yorke dedicated The Eraser).