Thomas Ford (died 28 May 1582), a Devonshire native, was a Catholic martyr executed during the reign of Elizabeth I.

He received a Masters of Arts at Trinity College, Oxford, on 24 July 1567, and became a fellow (although one source says president) there.

In 1570, he left for the English College, Douai, and was one of its first three students to be ordained, receiving his orders March 1573 in Brussels.

[3] On 17 July 1581, he was arrested by the government spy, George Eliot, along with Edmund Campion.

Ford was taken to court along with John Shert on 16 November with a faked charge of conspiracy.