Thomas Anderson (born 1740)[1] was an extensive landowner in Perth, Scotland, in the 18th century.

[4] With his son-in-law Thomas Hay Marshall, he began the first steps towards creating Tay Street when, in the late 18th century, they laid out Atholl Crescent and Atholl Street in the north and Marshall Place in the south.

[2] Anderson was a trustee and commissioner of a project to build a new Tay bridge in 1765, employing the engineer John Smeaton.

[8][9] Anderson's daughter, Rosie, married Thomas Hay Marshall in 1792.

[10][11] She was later adulterous, resulting in Marshall divorcing her in 1803, after eleven years of marriage.