Thomas Ryan was a Third Class steward of the Titanic. He died in the sinking. James Cameron invented a fictional passenger named Thomas "Tommy" Ryan for his 1997 Film Titanic, but that character is based on Patrick Ryan, not Thomas. He was the son of John Ryan (b. 1854) and Emma Jane Manning (b. 1858). His father was originally from St Martin's, Jersey and his mother from Somerset, England. He had seven known siblings: William (b. 1879), James (b. 1881), Emma (b. 1887), Matthew (b. 1890), Mary (b. 1893), Charles (b. 1896) and Florence (b. 1889).