Thomas Day Goodrich

Thomas Day Goodrich (1927 – November 5, 2015) was an American historian of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life Tom Goodrich was the son of the prominent sinologist Luther Carrington Goodrich who took him to live in China from the ages of 3 to 5. The family then moved back to the United States, where Goodrich attended school and did his military service.

In 1953, he received his master's degree from Columbia University. He wanted to teach overseas, so he accepted a position in Turkey at a middle school for boys, where he taught for four years. He then spent an additional year in Turkey teaching at a high school for girls in İzmir.

Goodrich went on to bring to light several little-known Ottoman maps and to become an expert on Piri Reis. In the early 1990s, he was invited by the Topkapı Palace Museum Library to prepare a catalogue for their map collection, which he published in Imago Mundi.