Sir Thomas Charles Dunlop TD DL (4 February 1878 – 13 August 1960) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and administrator, newspaper proprietor, and British Army officer. The son of William Hamilton Dunlop, he was born at Ayr in February 1878. Dunlop was educated firstly at Bilton Grange and latterly at Eton College. In 1900, he succeeded his uncle, A. B. Gemmell, as the publisher of the Ayr Advertiser following his death, becoming the youngest newspaper proprietor in Scotland. In the same year that he inherited the Ayr Advertiser, he was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, with promotion to lieutenant coming in October 1907. A club cricketer for Ayr Cricket Club, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for