Tom of a 1939 novel

• "The Grapes of Wrath" name
• Bruce Springsteen "The Ghost of Tom ___"
• Subject of a Woody Guthrie ballad
• Steinbeck's Tom
• Fonda's "The Grapes of Wrath" role
• Tom, Ma or Pa, in "The Grapes of Wrath"
• Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield
• Role for which Fonda was nominated Best Actor
• Maiden name of the Steinbeck character Rose of Sharon Casy

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Joad is a surname: C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), a British philosopher Tom Joad , a fictional character from the 1939 John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath and the 1940 movie of the same name