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Simon B. Kochen
Simon B. Kochen is a mathematician who taught at Cornell and Princeton, known for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics and the Ax–Kochen theorem in number theory.
Simon Baker
Simon Baker (born 1969), also known as Simon Baker-Denny, is an Australian actor and director known for playing Patrick Jane on the CBS crime drama The Mentalist (2008–15).
Simon bar Kokhba
Simon bar Kokhba (Simeon bar Kosevah), leader of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome, 132–135 CE; titled nasi of Israel, hailed as messiah by Rabbi Akiva, died at the fall of Betar in 135; his state minted overstruck coins before Rome devastated Judea.
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen, British cognitive neuroscientist, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre; known for mindblindness, empathizing–systemizing, and extreme male brain theories of autism, the AQ screening questionnaire, and a 2021 knighthood.
Simon Berrow
Simon Berrow is an Irish marine biologist who founded the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group in 1990 and leads research on the basking shark, the world's second-largest fish.
Simon Birch
Simon Birch is a 1998 American comedy-drama and coming-of-age film, the directorial debut of Mark Steven Johnson, starring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, and Ashley Judd.
Simon Bird
Simon Bird (born 1984) is an English actor, comedian and director, known as Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners and Adam Goodman in Friday Night Dinner, later directing Days of the Bagnold Summer and Such Brave Girls.
Simon Black
Simon Black (born 1979, Mount Isa) is a former Brisbane Lions AFL midfielder, 322-game club record holder, triple premiership player 2001-03, 2002 Brownlow and 2003 Norm Smith medallist, later Lions assistant coach and 2020 AFL Hall of Fame inductee.
Simón Bolívar
Simón Bolívar, El Libertador (1783–1830), Venezuelan-born leader of Spanish American independence who liberated Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, founded Gran Colombia, and wrote the Carta de Jamaica and Discurso de Angostura.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886-1945), American Army general, son of the Confederate general and Kentucky governor of the same name; built Alaska's WWII defenses, commanded Tenth Army at Okinawa, and was the highest-ranking U.S. officer killed by enemy action in the war.
Simón Bolívar International Airport (Venezuela)
Simón Bolívar International Airport, also known as Maiquetía International Airport, is Venezuela's principal international airport, located in Maiquetía about 20 kilometers north of Caracas, which it serves.
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela is the flagship orchestra of El Sistema, founded in 1978 by José Antonio Abreu and long led by Gustavo Dudamel.
Simón Borrero
Simón Borrero is a Colombian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Rappi, the delivery and fintech super app founded in Bogotá in 2015, which reached profitability in 2024.
Simon Boulton
Simon J. Boulton is a biologist who studies DNA repair and genome stability, leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, and co-founded the cancer-drug company Artios Pharma.
Simon Brendle
Simon Brendle is a differential geometer and professor of mathematics at Columbia University, known for the differentiable sphere theorem, the Lawson conjecture, and the 2024 Breakthrough Prize.
Simon Brodkin
Simon Brodkin (born 1977, Sheffield), also known as Lee Nelson, is a British comedian, doctor-turned-comedian, and prankster. Known for the P45 handed to Theresa May, banknotes thrown at FIFA's Sepp Blatter, and his own-name stand-up shows 100% Simon Brodkin, Screwed Up, and Unleashed.
Simon Cadell
Simon Cadell (1950–1996), English actor best known as Jeffrey Fairbrother in the first five series of BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!; Olivier Award winner for Travels with My Aunt; married Rebecca Croft, daughter of David Croft.
Simon Callow
Simon Callow (born 1949) is an English actor, director, and writer, CBE, known for creating Mozart in the 1979 National Theatre Amadeus, films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, and biographies of Welles, Dickens, and others.
Simon Capewell
Simon Capewell is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist and the first Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, appointed in 1999, known for the IMPACT model of coronary heart disease deaths.
Simon Carette
Simon Carette is a Canadian rheumatologist known for New England Journal of Medicine trials on corticosteroid injections for back pain, then a Toronto career centered on systemic vasculitis.
Simon Carmiggelt
Simon Carmiggelt (1913–1987) was a Dutch writer and journalist known for his Kronkel columns in Het Parool, which gave the newspaper column literary standing in the Netherlands.
Simon Case
Simon Case (Lord Case CVO) is a British civil servant, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service from September 2020 to December 2024 under Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and Starmer; former Prince William private secretary, stood down on health grounds.
Simon Cauchemez
Simon Cauchemez, born 1978, is an epidemiologist and mathematical modeller of infectious diseases who heads the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, and advised the French government on COVID-19.
Simon City Royals
Simon City Royals: Chicago street and prison gang founded 1971 from the 1956 Simon City club; Folk Nation ally of the Gangster Disciples; now centered in Mississippi prisons and the target of major federal RICO convictions.
Simon Claussen
Simon Claussen (Simon Kolstad Claussen, born 1991) is a Norwegian rifle shooter from Setskog, shooting for Kisen MSL and Høland/Bjørkelangen. He won three golds at the 2022 Cairo World Championships, including 300m rifle prone with 599, plus 2019 European 300m titles.
Simon Collins
Simon Collins (born 1976) is a British-Canadian drummer, singer, and producer, son of Phil Collins; former Sound of Contact frontman (Dimensionaut, 2013), solo albums All of Who You Are and Becoming Human, and eMolecule duo.
Simon Collins-Laflamme
Simon Collins-Laflamme, co-founder of the Hypixel Minecraft server (2013) and Hypixel Studios, creator of Hytale; reacquired Hytale from Riot Games in November 2025 and launched early access January 13, 2026.
Simon Commission
Simon Commission (Indian Statutory Commission), 1927 all-British royal commission under Sir John Simon reviewing the 1919 reforms; boycotted as 'Simon Go Back', answered by the Nehru Report, leading to the 1930 report and GoI Act 1935.
Simon Commission protests
The Simon Commission protests (साइमन कमीशन विरोध) were boycotts and demonstrations across British India from 1928 against the all-British Simon Commission, whose Lahore lathi charge fatally injured Lala Lajpat Rai.
Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris, born 1951, is a British palaeobiologist, emeritus professor at Cambridge, known for reinterpreting the Burgess Shale fauna and for arguing evolution is predictable, winning the 2026 Templeton Prize.