Tom DeLonge

Tom DeLonge is one of those guys who could've coasted forever on the goodwill of Enema of the State alone — and honestly, nobody would've blamed him. But that's never been his style. He co-founded Blink-182 out of Poway, California in the early '90s and helped turn pop-punk into a mainstream phenomenon, writing anthems that basically soundtracked an entire generation's adolescence. Then he left, started Angels & Airwaves, got deep into UFO research (like, genuinely seriously deep — he founded To the Stars Academy and ended up briefing government officials), and somehow made it all feel coherent. His 2022 return to Blink-182 with the original lineup, including the reunion with Mark Hoppus after Mark's cancer battle, was one of the more genuinely moving comebacks in rock. Equal parts goofball and true believer, Tom DeLonge is a weirder, more interesting figure than his pop-punk origins suggest — and I mean that as the highest compliment.

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Name (English)

Tom DeLonge

Name (Japanese)

トム・デロング

Reading

とむ・でろんぐ

Born

December 13, 1975 (age 50)

Origin

Poway, California, United States

Occupation

guitarist / singer / songwriter / singer-songwriter / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

High school

Rancho Bernardo High School

• Official sitehttps://blink182.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tomdelonge/
• Xhttps://x.com/tomdelonge
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20DeLonge
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4270

Tags

• California
• guitarist
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.