Thomas Nicholson was an English international rugby union player.
A three-quarter, Nicholson was a good runner and usually featured on a wing. He played for Whitley Bay club Rockcliff and represented Northumberland. In 1893, Nicholson gained his only England cap in a Home Nations match against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, playing alongside club teammates John Greenwell and Ernest Taylor.
Nicholson was a fruiterer by profession and lived in the town of Cullercoats in Northumberland.