Thomas Samuel Ashe was a U.S. Congressman and judge from North Carolina.

Thomas Ashe (1885 - 1917) born in Lispole, County Kerry, Ireland, was an Irish patriot. He took part in the Easter Rising of 1916, commanding the Fingal battalion of the Irish Volunteers, which during the rising captured Ashbourne, County Meath. For his involvement in the Easter Rising, he was sentenced to life imprisionment and was imprisioned in Lewes Gaol. In August 1917 we was transferred to Mountjoy Jail in Dublin, where on September 25 1917 he died on hunger strike after being force-fed by prision authorities. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.