All articles starting with S

Simon Kinberg

Simon David Kinberg (born 1973, London) is a British-American screenwriter, producer, and director, architect of Fox's X-Men films, producer of The Martian, co-creator of Star Wars Rebels, and writer-producer of Lucasfilm's new Star Wars trilogy announced in 2024.

Simon Kirke

Simon Kirke, English rock drummer, founding member of Free (1968) and Bad Company (1973), the only continuous member of Bad Company, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, solo artist.

Simon Kjær

Simon Thorup Kjær (born 1989, Horsens) is a Danish former centre-back and national captain, 132 caps, AC Milan 2020–2024, Serie A champion 2022, saved Christian Eriksen at EURO 2020, retired January 2025.

Simon Kuznets

Simon Kuznets (1901–1985) was an American economist and Harvard professor who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work on economic growth and standardized gross national product.

Oct 10, 2026

Simon Langham

Simon Langham was an English Benedictine monk who rose from Abbot of Westminster to Bishop of Ely, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury, and cardinal, dying at Avignon in 1376.

Simon Le Bon

Simon Le Bon is an English singer and lyricist, best known as the lead vocalist of the Birmingham new wave band Duran Duran, which he has fronted since 1980.

Oct 10, 2026

Simon Le Moyne

Simon Le Moyne (1604–1665) was a French Jesuit missionary to the Hurons in New France who made six peace journeys into Iroquois country between 1654 and 1662.

Simon Levene

Simon Levene, born 1971, is a London-based venture capitalist who cofounded Mosaic Ventures in 2014 and is known for early investments in Etsy, Squarespace, and Veriff.

Simon Leviev (שמעון יהודה חיוט)

Simon Leviev (Shimon Yehuda Hayut), Israeli con man who posed as diamond heir Lev Leviev's son to defraud Tinder matches; subject of 2022 Netflix film The Tinder Swindler; convicted in Israel 2019, arrested in Georgia 2025.

Simon Levy case

Simon Levy case: 2026 Old Bailey prosecution of Simon Levy (born 1985), Tottenham serial sex offender, for murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and raping a third woman; whole life order, with admitted police and CPS failings.

Sep 27, 2026

Simon Lightwood

Simon Lightwood is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been MP for Wakefield and Rothwell since 2024 and serves as a UK transport and equalities minister.

Simon Lin

Simon Lin, born Lin Hsien-ming (林宪铭) in 1952, is a Taiwanese business executive who has led Wistron since leading its 2001 spin-off from Acer, where he was once president.

Simon Litsyn

Simon Litsyn is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University who co-founded the fast-charging battery company StoreDot in 2012, serving as its Chief Strategy Officer.

Simon Loong

Simon Loong (龍沛智) is a Hong Kong fintech entrepreneur, born in 1977, who founded the lending and digital-banking group WeLab in January 2013 and remains its Group CEO.

Simon M. Helfgott

Simon M. Helfgott is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for the NEJM Case Records.

Simon MacCorkindale

Simon MacCorkindale (1952–2010), British actor also known as Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale; played Simon Doyle in Death on the Nile, Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest, and Dr Harry Harper in Casualty; died of bowel cancer in London.

Simon Magus

Simon Magus, also called Simon of Gitta, is a first-century Samaritan magician in Acts 8 who offered Peter money to buy the Holy Spirit's power.

Simon Mann

Simon Mann (1952-2025), British ex-SAS officer and mercenary, co-founder of Executive Outcomes and Sandline, led the failed 2004 Wonga Coup against Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang, was jailed in Zimbabwe and Malabo, pardoned in 2009.

Simon Marlin

Simon Marlin is a British DJ and record producer, founder of the West London house act The Shapeshifters, whose debut single "Lola's Theme" reached number 1 in 2004.

Oct 21, 2026

Simon Martirosyan

Simon Martirosyan (Սիմոն Մարտիրոսյան), born 1997, is an Armenian weightlifter who took Olympic silver at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 and held 109 kg world records.

Simon Mathews (baseball)

Simon Mathews (Simon Ambrose Mathews, born 1995) is an American baseball coach, Washington Nationals MLB pitching coach since November 2025; former Angels minor league pitcher, Georgetown standout, and Cincinnati Reds assistant pitching coach.

Simon Mayo

Simon Mayo (born 1958) is an English radio presenter and author, known for BBC Radio 1 Breakfast, 5 Live, Radio 2 Drivetime, Kermode and Mayo's Take, and the Itch novels; distinct from Judge Simon Peter Mayo QC.

Simon McBurney

Simon McBurney (born 1957, Cambridge) is an English actor, writer, director, and co-founder of Complicité, known for Mnemonic, A Disappearing Number, The Encounter, opera work, and the Yomiuri and Konrad Wolf prizes.

Simon McCoy

Simon McCoy (born 1961) is a British news presenter of ITV, TV-am, Sky News (Royal Correspondent), 18 years at BBC News, and a brief 2021 stint at GB News, known for deadpan viral clips.

Simon Mead

Simon Mead is a British consultant neurologist, Clinical Lead of the UK National Prion Clinic and Deputy Director of the MRC Prion Unit at University College London.

Simón Méndez‐Ferrer

Simón Méndez-Ferrer is a Spanish hematology researcher, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature finding that circadian rhythms regulate blood stem cell release.

Oct 10, 2026

Simon Mepham

Simon Mepham, also Meopham (c. 1275 to 1333), was a Kent-born Oxford doctor of theology who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1327 until his death in 1333.

Simon Michel

Simon Michel, born 1977, is a Swiss business executive who has led the medical-technology group Ypsomed since 2014 and sits in the Swiss National Council for the FDP.

Simon Middelhoek

Simon Middelhoek is a Dutch electrical engineer who studied thin magnetic films at IBM Zurich and, from 1969, led silicon sensor research as professor of electronic instrumentation at TU Delft.