Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988), better known as his drag persona Conchita Wurst, is an Austrian singer. In the role of Conchita Wurst, he will represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Before taking up a drag persona, Tom Neuwirth, worked as a shop window decorator. Competing under his birth name, he made it to the final of the 2007 version of Starmania.

He first appeared in public in an advertisement in 2006, then entered the 2007 Austrian casting show Starmania, after which he disappeared until 2011. He returned to television in drag as 'Conchita Wurst'. More recently, Conchita Wurst participated in the ORF production The hardest jobs of Austria, where she worked in a fish factory, and in Wild Girls, where a group of candidates had to survive in the deserts of Namibia together with native tribes.

Tom Neuwirth graduated from the Graz School of Fashion in 2011, and has lived in various locations in Vienna.