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British jockey

Thomas Richard Dunwoody MBE (born 18 January 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a retired British National Hunt jockey. He was a three time British Champion Jockey. He was the only jockey of his generation to win the Grand National, Cheltenham Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle. Despite this Dunwoody still became national hunt champion jockey at the end of the 1993/94 season.

On 18 January 2008, it was reported that Dunwoody and American explorer Doug Stoup had reached the South Pole following a 48 day trek raising money for charity. Their route followed one which had previously been attempted by Ernest Shackleton and was both the first successful completion of that route on foot as well the first successfully completed new route to the South Pole in ten years. On 29 May 2009, Dunwoody started a 1000 Mile Challenge for charity and walked the same mile 1000 consecutive times in Newmarket for 1000 consecutive hours with the last mile up the home straight of Newmarket racecourse just before the Bunbury Cup on 10 July 2009. On 26 February 2017, Dunwoody embarked on a walk across Japan, covering a distance of 2,000 miles, to raise money for Sarcoma UK cancer charity. His trek, from Cape Sata on the southern tip of Kyushu to Cape Soya, the northernmost part of Hokkaido, took 101 days.

On 25 August 2009 it was announced that he would take part in Series 7 of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing partnering Lilia Kopylova. The couple were eliminated on the second week.

Dunwoody was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1993 Birthday Honours for services to horse racing. Dunwoody's autobiography is called Obsessed and was published, after his retirement, in the year 2000. He published a second autobiography called Method in My Madness: 10 Years Out of the Saddle in 2009. He is a motivational speaker. In January 2014, he hosted his debut photographic exhibition at St Martin in the Fields featuring images taken in Pakistan, India, Guatemala and Egypt for the charity Brooke Hospital for Animals. His daughter was born in 2015.