Thomas More (1478–1535) was an English humanist, statesman, and chancellor of England who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
More is the author of Utopia (1516), a book that describes a pagan and communism city-state whose institutions and policies are governed entirely by reason. He coined the term utopia from the Greek ou-topos (“no place”).