Thomas Michael "Tom" Kettle (9 February 1880 - 9 September 1916) was an Irish journalist, barrister, writer, poet and economist. As nationalist, Home Rule politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, he represented East Tyrone as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1906-1910. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in an Irish regiment where in 1916 he met his death on the Western Front.