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Simon Mongey
Simon Mongey is an Australian-born economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis who works on macroeconomics and labor economics, and won the 2026 Frisch Medal.
Simon Monjack
Simon Monjack (1970–2010), British screenwriter, director and producer of Two Days, Nine Lives and credited on Factory Girl; husband of actress Brittany Murphy, whose 2009 death he did not survive, dying in 2010 of pneumonia and anemia.
Simon Moroney
Simon Moroney, born 1959, is a German-New Zealander chemist who co-founded the biotech company MorphoSys in Germany in 1992 and led it as chief executive until 2019.
Simon Myers
Simon R. Myers is a University of Oxford professor of mathematical genomics known for mapping recombination hotspots in the human genome and dating admixture from modern DNA.
Simon N. Patten
Simon N. Patten, also known as Simon Nelson Patten, was an American economist at the Wharton School who theorized a shift from a pain economy to a pleasure economy.
Simon N. Wood
Simon N. Wood is a statistician holding the Chair of Computational Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, known for the R package mgcv and for introducing synthetic likelihood.
Simon Navagattegama
Simon Navagattegama (සයිමන් නවගත්තේගම, 1940–2005) was a Sri Lankan Sinhala novelist, playwright, and actor whose "hunter stories", beginning with Sansaranyaye Dadayakkaraya in 1981, pioneered surrealist fiction.
Simon Neil
Simon Alexander Neil (born 1979, Irvine, Scotland) is the Scottish vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of Biffy Clyro, also of Marmaduke Duke and Empire State Bastard, known for Stratocaster-plus-Metal Zone tones and ten albums through Futique (2025).
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) was a Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician in the United States Navy whose astronomical constants and ephemerides remained the international standard until 1984.
Simon Newstead
Simon Newstead (born 1979) is a British structural biologist and David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford, known for crystallographic and cryo-EM structures of SLC membrane transport proteins.
Simon Niepmann
Simon Niepmann (born 1985) is a Swiss rower who won Olympic gold in the lightweight men's coxless four at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Simon O'Brien (presenter)
Simon O'Brien (born 1965, Garston, Liverpool) is an English actor and presenter, the original Damon Grant in Brookside (1982–1987), later host of property shows Find It, Fix It, Flog It and The Great House Giveaway, and Liverpool's first cycling champion.
Simon Oakland
Simon Oakland (born Simon Weiss, 1915 or 1922–1983), American character actor and former concert violinist; played Dr. Richmond in Psycho, Lt. Schrank in West Side Story, and Tony Vincenzo in Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
Simon of Cyrene
Simon of Cyrene is the man the Synoptic Gospels name as compelled by soldiers to carry Jesus' cross on the way to Golgotha, coming from Cyrene in modern Libya.
Simon of Kéza
Simon of Kéza (Kézai Simon) was a 13th-century Hungarian chronicler and court cleric of King Ladislaus IV, author of the Gesta Hungarorum, written between 1282 and 1285.
Simon of the Desert
Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto) is Luis Buñuel's 1965 Mexican satirical short feature about the pillar ascetic Simeon Stylites, starring Claudio Brook and Silvia Pinal as the Devil; his last Mexican film, a Venice prize winner.
Simon Osindero
Simon Osindero is a machine learning researcher and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, credited by the 2024 Nobel Committee for the 2006 deep learning pre-training breakthrough.
Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky, American journalist and PBS NewsHour Special Correspondent; former VICE News reporter behind Russian Roulette and Selfie Soldiers; abducted in Sloviansk 2014; duPont and Emmy winner.
Simon P. Norton
Simon P. Norton, or Simon Phillips Norton, was a British mathematician at Cambridge who co-discovered the Harada–Norton group and co-authored the ATLAS of Finite Groups.
Simon P. Ringer
Simon P. Ringer is an Australian materials scientist and microscopist known for atom probe tomography and physical metallurgy, and a University of Sydney professor since 2001 who became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) in December 2022.
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham, 1970) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter, co-creator of Spaced and the Cornetto Trilogy, and star of Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and Ice Age.
Simon Phillips (drummer)
Simon Phillips is a London-born English drummer who played with Toto from 1992 to 2014, toured with The Who in 1989, and leads the jazz-rock group Protocol.
Simon Plouffe
Simon Plouffe is a Canadian mathematician, born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec, who co-discovered the BBP formula for pi in 1995 and co-authored The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences with Neil Sloane.
Simon Porte Jacquemus
Simon Porte Jacquemus, French designer born in Salon-de-Provence, founded the Jacquemus label in Paris in 2009 at 19, naming it for his late mother's maiden name; 2023 sales near $280 million with L'Oréal holding 10% since 2025.
Simon Portegies Zwart
Simon Portegies Zwart, born 1965 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch computational astrophysicist and professor at Leiden Observatory, known for the AMUSE software and intermediate-mass black hole research.
Simon Prast
Simon Prast (born 1962) is a New Zealand actor and director, founder and founding Artistic Director of Auckland Theatre Company (1992–2003). Not to be confused with Simon Proust, the French conductor.
Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, founded by Melvin Simon and his brothers in 1960, is an American real estate investment trust owning malls and Premium Outlets that went public in 1993.
Simon Pryce
Simon Pryce (Simon James Pryce, born 1972) is an Australian singer, actor, and the Red Wiggle of The Wiggles since 2013, replacing Murray Cook after joining the group in 2002 as a voice artist.
Simon Pytlick
Simon Pytlick (Simon Bogetoft Pytlick, born 2000), Danish handball left back for SG Flensburg-Handewitt; world champion 2023 and 2025, Olympic gold 2024, Euro gold 2026, first EHF Excellence Awards MVP.
Simon Ramo
Simon Ramo (1913–2016) was an American engineer and physicist, chief scientist of the US ICBM program from 1954 to 1958 and co-founder of Ramo-Wooldridge, the predecessor of TRW.