Thomas Michael Shelby, known as Tommy, is the fictional protagonist of the BBC period crime drama Peaky Blinders, which ran from 2013 to 2022. He is a Romani Birmingham man from Small Heath, the second son of Arthur Shelby Sr., and he leads the Peaky Blinders gang in the years after the First World War.

He served in the British Army with the Birmingham Rifles and rose to Sergeant Major, a service that left him with nightmares and lasting trauma. He grows the gang into the Shelby Company Limited