Tom Fletcher is an English musician from the United Kingdom, born in 1985 in Harrow, London. He is best known as a founding member of McFly, where he performs as a lead vocalist, guitarist and sometimes pianist, and writes much of the band’s material. McFly’s other members are Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd.

Fletcher names the band after Marty McFly, the character from Back to the Future. Before McFly forms, he auditions for Busted and misses out on a place when the group is reduced from four members to three. He is briefly considered part of the band for about 24 hours, then is brought into Busted’s songwriting team by the record label Island, working with James Bourne. He says Bourne teaches him how to structure songs and write pop melodies.

While working on Busted’s second album A Present for Everyone, Fletcher is asked to film auditions for a new band called V, where he meets Danny Jones for the first time. Impressed by Jones, he invites him to write with him and Bourne. When the Busted work ends, Fletcher and Jones begin developing their own band and spend two months in the InterContinental Hotel in London writing together. Bassist Dougie Poynter and drummer Harry Judd are later recruited through a classified advert in NME; both turn up at the same audition and connect over their shared interest in The Starting Line. McFly later enters the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest band to have a debut album go straight to number one.

Fletcher writes the majority of McFly’s songs with Jones and Poynter, with occasional contributions from Judd, while James Bourne also assists on some songs. McFly releases five studio albums and one greatest hits album by 2010, and Fletcher is also linked with McBusted and Me & Mrs F.

As a child, Fletcher appears in Oliver! at the London Palladium, playing the main role alongside Jim Dale as Fagin. He also makes a documentary about HIV for schools.