Thomas McLernon Greene (May 17, 1926 – June 23, 2003) was an American scholar of English literature.
He completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University in 1949, after serving in the Counterintelligence Corps.
Greene was named a full professor in 1966 and appointed the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of English and Comparative Literature in 1978, serving until retirement in 1996.
He continued to research and write until his death on June 23, 2003, in New Haven, Connecticut.
[1] Yale held a public memorial service for Greene on September 5, 2003.