Tom Spillane (born 1962) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Templenoe and the Kerry county team[1] in the 1980s.

He was — along with his brothers Pat and Mick — destined to become a key member of the successful Kerry Gaelic football teams of the 1980s.

Spillane won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (MFC) medal in 1980 before first breaking into the county panel in 1981.

Himself and Ger Lynch — assigned to mark Tommy Conroy and Barney Rock during the 1984 All-Ireland SFC final — began their efforts during the national anthem, which they sang with aplomb.

[3] Spillane, quoted in the book Princes of Pigskin, said of this tactic later: "There was no belting but the plot was to sing the National Anthem as loud as we could into their ears to put the fear of God into them.