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Tom Sawyer (born 1833?) is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels published by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).

Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works had been posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer Conspiracy boasts a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after only finishing a few chapters.

The name may also refer to:

• Tom Sawyer, a 1907 silent film produced by Kalem Studios
• Tom Sawyer, a 1917 silent produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by William Desmond Taylor, and starring Jack Pickford.
• Tom Sawyer, a 1930 film starring Jackie Coogan as Tom
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), a 1938 film featuring Walter Brennan in a major supporting role as Muff Potter. The first Technicolor film version of a Mark Twain novel.
• Tom Sawyer, a 1973 musical film in which Jodie Foster appeared
• Tom Sawyer, a different 1973 film in which Buddy Ebsen appeared
• Tom and Huck, a 1995 film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro
• Tom Sawyer, an animated film made in 2000 that featured anthropomorphic animal characters

• "Tom Sawyer", a popular song of the band Rush from their Moving Pictures album.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) featured a dramatically different version of the Tom Sawyer character, portrayed by Shane West. In this adaptation, Sawyer is portrayed as having grown up to become a government agent embittered over the loss of his friend and fellow agent Huck Finn (In "behind the scenes" footage contained on the DVD release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen the writers tell of Sawyer's depiction as a detective in some later Twain novels, notably, Tom Sawyer, Detective as the inspiration for this character's outline). He is taught how to hit targets at a great distance by Allan Quatermain, and develops feelings for Mina Harker, which it is hinted may be reciprocated. The comic version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" did not feature this character.
• Tom Sawyer no Boken, a 1980 cartoon by Nippon Animation Co, Meisaku and WMT.

• List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series