Thomas Frederick Hope OBE CEng (22 March 1919 – 19 May 1996) was a Sierra Leonean civil engineer, businessman, and scholar who was the general manager and chief engineer of the Guma Valley Water Company and president of the Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce.

Thomas Frederick Hope was born on 22 March 1919 in Freetown, Sierra Leone to Creole parents, Thomas George Frederick Hope, a mechanic, and Lottie Fanny, née Elba, of Jamaican Maroon, Liberated African, and distant English descent and possibly with partial origins in Wellington Village.

Hope was initially attached to the General Clerical Service of the Colonial Secretary's Office and was subsequently awarded a three-year scholarship to Achimota College for the purpose of undertaking an engineering qualification to take up the role of assistant water works engineer to the Freetown City Council.

He served as general manager and Chief Engineer of the Guma Valley Water Company from 1963 until his retirement in May 1976.

Hope also served as chairman and director on the boards of several well-known multi-national companies operating in Sierra Leone and West Africa more broadly.