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Simon Cousens
Simon Cousens is a British statistician and epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for stillbirth and newborn health research.
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell (born 1959), English record executive and TV producer, judge on Pop Idol and American Idol, creator of The X Factor and Got Talent formats, Syco founder, launched One Direction and Little Mix.
Simon Curtis (filmmaker)
Simon Curtis (born 1960, London) is a British film, TV, and theatre director, husband of Elizabeth McGovern, known for My Week with Marilyn, Woman in Gold, and the Downton Abbey films A New Era and The Grand Finale; distinct from Adam Curtis and the pop singer Simon Curtis.
Simon D. M. White
Simon D. M. White (西蒙·怀特), born in England in 1951, is a British and German astrophysicist who helped establish the cold dark matter theory of cosmic structure formation.
Simon Day
Simon Day (born 1962, London) is an English actor, writer and comedian, a principal performer on The Fast Show and creator of characters Billy Bleach, Dave Angel, Tommy Cockles, and Brian Pern; also a National Theatre actor and playwright, distinct from actor Simon Paisley Day.
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c. 1208–1265), French-born leader of the baronial revolt against Henry III; victor of Lewes 1264, summoner of the 1265 parliament of knights and burgesses, killed at Evesham.
Simón del Desierto
Simón del Desierto (Simon of the Desert) is Luis Buñuel's unfinished 1965 Mexican medium-length film about the ascetic Simeon Stylites, starring Claudio Brook and Silvia Pinal as the Devil, his last Mexican film.
Simon Dennis
Simon Dennis (born 1976, Henley-on-Thames) is a British rower, MBE, who won gold in the men's eight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; earlier bronze at the 1994 World Junior Championships; later a biology teacher and Imperial College coach.
Simon Desthieux
Simon Desthieux (born 1991, Belley) is a retired French biathlete, 2018 Olympic mixed relay gold medalist, 2022 relay silver medalist, 2020 world relay champion, with two World Cup wins in 2020/21; retired March 2022.
Simon Dominic
Simon Dominic (사이먼 도미닉, Jung Ki-seok, born 1984) is a South Korean rapper, formerly K-Outa and half of Supreme Team, co-CEO of AOMG 2014–2018, known for the 2015 chart-topping single "Simon Dominic," DARKROOM, and the 2026 album ONYX.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician, born in 1957, who won the 1986 Fields Medal for work on four-dimensional manifolds and holds a chair at Imperial College London.
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher, born 1970 in London, is a British neurogeneticist known for discovering FOXP2, the first gene found mutated in a speech and language disorder.
Simon Eder
Simon Eder (Sam), Austrian biathlete born 1983 in Zell am See, two Olympic relay silvers (2010, 2014), five World Championship medals, 560 World Cup starts, retired March 2026 at 43.
Simon Episcopius
Simon Episcopius, born Simon Bisschop (1583–1643), was a Dutch Arminian theologian who led the Remonstrants at the Synod of Dort, was banished in 1619, and later headed their Amsterdam seminary.
Simon Eriksson
Simon Eriksson (Simon Olof Eriksson, born 2006, Uppsala) is a Swedish goalkeeper, 1.95 m, who rose from Dalkurd and FC Stockholm via IF Elfsborg to Racing Santander, joining for about 2 million euros in January 2026 and winning promotion to La Liga that spring.
Simon Fairweather
Simon Fairweather (born 1969, Adelaide) is an Australian recurve archer, 1991 world champion and five-time Olympian who won men's individual gold at Sydney 2000, Australia's first and only Olympic archery title, beating Vic Wunderle 113-106.
Simon Farnaby
Simon Farnaby, born in 1973 in Darlington, is an English actor, writer, and comedian known for Horrible Histories and Ghosts and for co-writing Paddington 2 and Wonka.
Simon Ferry
Simon William Ferry, born 1988 in Dundee, is a Scottish former central midfielder who played for Celtic, Swindon Town, Portsmouth, Dundee, and Peterhead before retiring in 2022.
Simon Flexner
Simon Flexner (1863–1946) was an American pathologist and bacteriologist, first director of the Rockefeller Institute, who developed a meningitis serum and transmitted polio to monkeys.
Simon Franklin
Simon Franklin, born 1953, is Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies at Cambridge, known for The Emergence of Rus and studies of writing as a social technology.
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU), public research university in Burnaby, Surrey, and Vancouver, British Columbia, founded 1965, named for explorer Simon Fraser. Erickson/Massey-designed Burnaby Mountain campus; first Canadian research-intensive university accredited by NWCCU; new Stephens Family School of Medicine opens 2026.
Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), Scottish peer and British commando brigadier; led 1st Special Service Brigade ashore on Sword Beach on D-Day and linked up at Pegasus Bridge; DSO and MC.
Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller (born 1960, Hastings, England) is the British manager behind the Spice Girls, creator of the Idol TV franchise (Pop Idol, American Idol), founder of 19 Entertainment, sold to CKX in 2005, later XIX Entertainment.
Simon G. Thompson
Simon G. Thompson is a biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the MRC Biostatistics Unit and was Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge.
Simon Gagné
Simon Gagné, born 1980 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, is a Canadian former NHL left winger (Flyers, Lightning, Kings, Bruins; 601 points in 822 games) who won 2002 Olympic gold and the 2012 Stanley Cup, and is Quebec Remparts GM.
Simon Gallup
Simon Gallup, born Simon Johnathon Gallup, is an English bassist and the longest-serving member of The Cure after Robert Smith, playing bass since 1979 apart from a 1982 split.
Simon Gilchrist
Simon Gilchrist is an American economist and professor at New York University, known for the financial accelerator with Bernanke and Gertler and the Gilchrist–Zakrajšek credit spread index.
Simon Gilroy
Simon Gilroy is a British plant cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for calcium signaling research and plant experiments on the International Space Station.
Simon Gindikin
Simon Gindikin (Семен Григорьевич Гиндикин), born 1937, is a Moscow-school mathematician and Rutgers professor known for the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula and for rebuilding representation theory on integral geometry.
Simon Gotch
Simon Gotch, ring name of Seth Lesser (born 1982), American wrestler; formerly Ryan Drago; WWE 2013-2017 as half of The Vaudevillains with Aiden English, NXT Tag Team Champion 2015; later MLW, NOAH, indies.