Tom Sawyer is one of the main characters in Mark Twain's novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) and Tom Sawyer the Detective (1896); also a character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The character is also present in at least three unfinished works by Mark Twain - Schoolhouse Hill, Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy and Huck and Tom among the Indians. Huck and Tom Among the Indians). Although all three unfinished works were published after the death of the author, only "The Tom Sawyer Conspiracy" can boast of a finished plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works, having managed to finish only a few chapters.

The fictional character's name may have been taken from a real person named Tom Sawyer, whom Mark Twain met in San Francisco, California, where he worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Call. The writer says in the preface that the character of the character was copied from three boys with whom he was familiar as a child, but the opinions of literary scholars about who in fact was the prototype of the hero differ.

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