- As a boy, his Sunday school teacher was future actress and 1920's nightclub queen Texas Guinan.
- He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1752 Vine Street and for Motion Pictures at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- In the major motion Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Arthur Kennedy's portrayal of Newspaper Reporter & Film Maker, Jackson Bentley is a fictionalized name for Mr. Lowell Thomas; who both "discovered" T.E. Lawrence, coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and made his exploits known to the world in his book and film, With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (1919).
- In the major motion Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Arthur Kennedy's portrayal of Newspaper Reporter & Film Maker, Jackson Bentley is a fictionalized name for Mr. Lowell Thomas; who both "discovered" T.E. Lawrence, coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and made his exploits known to the world in his book and film, With Lawrence in Arabia (1919).
- He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
- Raised in the small town of Victor, Colorado, there is a Lowell Thomas Museum in this former mining town to this day.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 786-788. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
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