Thomas Gallaudet (June 3, 1822 – August 27, 1902),[1] an American Episcopal priest,[2] was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Gallaudet accepted a teaching position at the New York Institution for Deaf-mutes, where he met and married a deaf woman, Elizabeth Budd.

He was most certainly named after the man his father brought back from France to help start his deaf-mute school, Laurent Clerc.

Gallaudet was also instrumental in the work of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd, a group of women engaged in urban ministry in and around New York City.

One of Gallaudet's students, Henry Winter Syle, became the first deaf person to be ordained by the Episcopal Church.