Tom Palmer is an English Rugby Union footballer. He started playing mini rugby at age five with the Barnet club but and spent his early years in Kenya.. After his A levels Tom deferred his place at the Leeds University for a year while he went to New Zealand. He spent 18 months at Otago Boys' High School, where he played for New Zealand Schoolboys before returning to the UK to start a degree course in physics at Leeds University.

Tom’s First Professional club where the Leeds Tykes, he went on to become the Tykes first England international and the club's second longest serving player before joining London Wasps in the summer of 2006. With Wasps he won the Heineken Cup and the Guinness Premiership titles.  

In the summer of 2003 he was selected for England’s summer tour to New Zealand and then joined up with the Churchill Cup squad in Canada.

Away from the pitch Tom enjoys walking his dogs, mountain biking, reading and relaxing at the cinema.

Tom became a Right To Play ambassador in 2009.