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Simon Rasmussen
Simon Rasmussen is a bioinformatician and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for VAMB, a deep-learning tool for reconstructing microbial genomes from metagenomic data.
Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle is a British conductor, born in 1955 in Liverpool, who led the Berliner Philharmoniker from 2002 to 2018 after eighteen years in Birmingham.
Simon Reeve (British TV presenter)
Simon Reeve (born 1972) is a British adventurer, author and BBC travel presenter of Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Mediterranean and Wilderness, who went from Sunday Times post boy to al-Qaeda author and award-winning broadcaster.
Simon Rex
Simon Rex (Simon Rex Cutright, born 1974) is an American actor, rapper, and comedian: MTV VJ from 1995, Dirt Nasty rap persona, Scary Movie 3–5, and Independent Spirit Award-winning star of Red Rocket (2021).
Simon Rich
Simon Rich (born 1984), American humorist and screenwriter, son of Frank Rich; youngest-ever SNL writer, Pixar's Inside Out, creator of Man Seeking Woman and Miracle Workers, author of Ant Farm through Glory Days, and writer of An American Pickle and Wonka.
Simon Rimmer
Simon Rimmer (born 1963, Wallasey) is an English chef and TV presenter, self-taught, founder of Manchester vegetarian restaurant Greens (1990/1992), co-host of Channel 4's Sunday Brunch with Tim Lovejoy since 2012, ex-Something for the Weekend, Strictly 2017, Gold Radio host.
Simon Rodbard
Simon Rodbard (1911–1975) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology, long at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and Director of Cardiology at the City of Hope from 1963.
Simón Rodríguez
Simón Rodríguez, born Simón Carreño, was a Venezuelan philosopher, educator, and political writer born in Caracas in 1771, remembered as the teacher of Simón Bolívar.
Simon Rogerson
Simon Rogerson is a British entrepreneur who co-founded London-based Octopus Group in 2000 and has led it as chief executive; its Octopus Energy became the UK's largest energy supplier in 2025.
Simon Russell Beale
Sir Simon Russell Beale (born 1961, Penang) is an English stage and screen actor, three-time Olivier winner, Tony winner for The Lehman Trilogy, knighted 2019, famed for Hamlet, Lear, and The Death of Stalin.
Simon Says
Simon Says is a children's game in which players must obey only commands preceded by "Simon says"; anyone caught following an unmarked command is out.
Simon Schaffer
Simon Schaffer is a British historian of science and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, co-author with Steven Shapin of Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985).
Simon Schama
Simon Schama (born 1945) is a British historian and art historian, University Professor at Columbia, author of Citizens, Landscape and Memory, and the A History of Britain trilogy, and a BBC television presenter.
Simon Scheuring
Simon Scheuring is a Swiss and French biophysicist at Weill Cornell Medicine who develops high-speed atomic force microscopy to watch single membrane proteins at work.
Simon Schmincke
Simon Schmincke is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Creandum's Berlin office, leading its fintech vertical and investments including N26, Taxfix, and Billie, after cofounding startups under Rocket Internet.
Simon Schurch
Simon Schürch (born 1990, Rothrist, Switzerland) is a Swiss lightweight rower of Seeclub Sursee; Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four at Rio 2016 with Tramèr, Niepmann, and Gyr, fifth at London 2012, 2015 world and European champion.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British historian and novelist of Russian and Middle Eastern history, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Young Stalin, Jerusalem: The Biography, The Romanovs, The World, and The Cauldron.
Simon Shorvon
Simon David Shorvon is a British neurologist and emeritus professor of clinical neurology at UCL, known for epilepsy research and prize-winning histories of epilepsy, receiving the ILAE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.
Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek (سيمون سنيك) is a British-born author and speaker on leadership whose 2009 TEDx talk introduced the Golden Circle and whose book Start With Why sold over 1 million copies.
Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag (born 1984) is a Swedish artist and author of the narrative art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, and The Electric State, self-taught digital paintings of alternate-history Sweden adapted into a 2020 Amazon series and 2025 Netflix film.
Simon Stewart (cardiovascular nurse scientist)
Simon Stewart is an Australian cardiovascular nurse scientist and health services researcher known for home-based heart failure care, including a 1999 Lancet trial and the Heart of Soweto Study.
Simon Stock
Simon Stock (c. 1165 – 1265) was an English Carmelite prior general remembered in tradition as the recipient of the Brown Scapular from the Virgin Mary.
Simon Stuart (conservation biologist)
Simon Stuart is a conservation biologist who developed the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, led the Global Amphibian Assessment, and chaired the IUCN Species Survival Commission from 2008 to 2016.
Simon Sudbury
Simon Sudbury, born Simon Theobald around 1316, was an English cleric who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor until rebels beheaded him in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
Simon task
The Simon task is a conflict paradigm in psychology in which responses are faster when a stimulus's irrelevant location matches the required left or right response.
Simon Tavaré
Simon Tavaré is a statistician and computational biologist known for coalescent theory and cancer evolution, and Founding Director of Columbia's Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics since 2018.
Simon Taylor (planter)
Simon Taylor (1739–1813) was a Jamaican sugar planter, slave owner, and politician who claimed ownership over 2,248 enslaved people and was among the richest men in the British empire.
Simon Temstrup Michelet
Simon Temstrup Michelet (1863–1942) was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian who held the Old Testament chair at the University of Kristiania from 1896 to 1933 and introduced historical-critical biblical scholarship in Norway.
Simon the Musician
Simon the Musician (Сымон-музыка) is a lyrical-epic poem in six parts by Yakub Kolas, written from 1911 to 1925, about a self-taught violinist from a poor peasant family.
Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer is a 1993 comedy point-and-click adventure game by the British studio Adventure Soft, in which a teenager is sent to a fairytale world against the wizard Sordid.