| Last name | Gallaudet |
| First name | Thomas |
| Middle name | H. |
| Display name | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet |
| Birth date | 1787 |
| Death date | 1851 |
| Birth place | phila |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | review |
| Bio notes | American pioneer in the education of the deaf. When his school opened in 1817 in Hartford, it was called the "Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons," but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf. Trained in the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary. |