Thomas "Tom" McKinney (31 December 1926 – 10 November 1999) was a Northern Irish rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Jed-Forest RFC, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Other Nationalities, British Empire XIII, Rugby League XIII, and Combined Nationalitiess, and at club level for Salford (twice), Warrington, and St. Helens, as a Prop, Hooker, i.e. number 8 or 10, or 9, during the era of contested scrums.