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Simon the Zealot
Simon the Zealot, also called Simon the Canaanite or Simon Zelotes, is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, always listed beside Jude Thaddeus; the New Testament records nothing else about him.
Simon Tolkien
Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien, born in 1959, is an English novelist and former criminal barrister, grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien and a director of the Tolkien Estate.
Simon Travis
Simon P.L. Travis, born 1958, is a British gastroenterologist at Oxford known for the UCEIS index, the Oxford index for acute severe colitis, and the EARNEST trial.
Simon Turner (isotope geochemist)
Simon P. Turner is an Australian isotope geochemist and Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, known for Tibetan uplift timing and a 2025 Nature paper on Earth's first crust.
Simon Ushakov
Simon Ushakov (Симон Ушаков), 1626–1686, was a Russian icon painter and royal isographer of Moscow who headed the tsar's icon-painting workshop from 1664 and was the first to adopt West European painting devices.
Simon van Creveld
Simon van Creveld (1894–1971) was a Dutch pediatrician at the University of Amsterdam who co-described Ellis–van Creveld syndrome and opened the world's first hemophilia clinic in 1964.
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer (1925–2011) was a Dutch accelerator physicist at CERN who invented stochastic cooling, enabling the discovery of the W and Z bosons, and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia.
Simon Vance
Simon Vance (born 1955, Brighton) is a British audiobook narrator and actor, formerly a BBC Radio 4 newsreader, with over 1,000 recorded books, 17 Audie Awards, 77 Earphone Awards, and Audible and APA Hall of Fame membership.
Simon Vestdijk
Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and essayist who gave up medicine in 1932 and wrote about two hundred books, including De koperen tuin.
Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (1590–1649) was a French Baroque painter who trained in Rome and, as first painter to Louis XIII from 1627, reshaped Parisian painting; his pupils included Charles Le Brun.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) is Becky Albertalli's debut YA novel about closeted teen Simon Spier, his anonymous pen pal Blue, blackmail by Martin, the 2016 Morris Award, and the 2018 film Love, Simon.
Simon W M John
Simon W M John is an American glaucoma geneticist at Columbia University known for the DBA/2J mouse model and showing vitamin B3 prevents glaucoma in mice.
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton is a British biogeochemist holding the Chair in Biogeochemistry and Earth History at the University of Leeds, known for work on Earth's oxygenation history.
Simon Wain–Hobson
Simon Wain-Hobson is a virologist who led the Molecular Retrovirology Unit at the Pasteur Institute, sequenced the AIDS virus LAV in 1985, and retired in 2021.
Simon Ward
Simon Ward (1941–2012), British stage and screen actor; played young Winston Churchill in Attenborough's Young Winston (1972), the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers, and Bishop Gardiner in The Tudors; career interrupted by a 1987 assault.
Simon Webbe
Simon Webbe (Simon Solomon Webbe, born 1979, Manchester) is an English singer-songwriter, member of Blue, and solo artist whose albums Sanctuary and Grace produced the UK top-five hits Lay Your Hands and No Worries.
Simon Wessely
Simon Wessely is a British psychiatrist and epidemiologist, Professor of Psychological Medicine at King's College London and, since 2017, the first Regius Professor of Psychiatry in the United Kingdom.
Simon West
Simon West (born 1961) is a British film director and producer of Con Air, The General's Daughter, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Expendables 2, and Skyfire, who began as a BBC film editor and commercial director.
Simon Weston
Simon Weston (born 1961, Caerphilly) is a Welsh Falklands War veteran, Welsh Guardsman, and CBE who survived the 1982 bombing of RFA Sir Galahad with 46% burns, later becoming a charity founder, author, and motivational speaker.
Simon Whitfield
Simon Whitfield (born 1975, Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian retired triathlete, first Olympic men's triathlon champion at Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 silver medalist; four-time Olympian, retired 2013.
Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock, "The Wizard" (born 1969, Cessnock, Australia), Australian darts player; BDO world finalist 2008, PDC world finalist 2010, 2012 European Championship winner, and 2022 World Cup of Darts champion with Damon Heta.
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005), Austrian Holocaust survivor and architectural engineer, founded documentation centers in Linz and Vienna and provided leads on Nazi criminals including Eichmann, Stangl, Silberbauer, and Braunsteiner Ryan.
Simon Wigg
Simon Wigg (1960–2000), "Wiggy", English speedway, longtrack, and grasstrack rider; five-time World Longtrack Champion (1985, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994), British Champion 1988–89, 1989 Speedway World Championship runner-up, first GB Hall of Fame inductee.
Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur
Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur (1779–1839) was a French-born Sulpician priest, spiritual director of Elizabeth Ann Seton, and first Bishop of Vincennes from 1834 until his death.
Simon Williams (actor)
Simon Williams (born 1946, Windsor) is a British actor and writer, not the Marvel character, known for James Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs, Justin Elliott in The Archers since 2014, and plays such as Nobody's Perfect.
Simon Wimmer
Simon Wimmer is a German engineer who co-founded the payments company Augustus, founded as Ivy in Berlin in 2022, and serves as its chief technology officer.
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, British-born journalist, geologist, and author of The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, and Land; former Guardian and Sunday Times foreign correspondent, OBE 2006, living in New York.
Simon Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford
Simon Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford (born 1961), British campaigner, co-founder and director of Operation Black Vote (1996-2021), Race Disparity Unit chair, crossbench life peer (2019), and since 2021 Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, the first Black head of an Oxbridge college.
Simon Wright (musician)
Simon Wright (born 1963, Oldham, England), hard-rock drummer who replaced Phil Rudd in AC/DC (1983–1989), recorded four Dio studio albums, and plays with Dio Disciples; also Rhino Bucket and UFO.
Simon Yam (任达华)
Simon Yam Tat-wah (任達華), Hong Kong actor, model, and producer born 1955; TVB's CID (1976) start, breakthrough in Bullet in the Head (1990), Johnnie To collaborations PTU and Election, and 2010 Hong Kong Film Award Best Actor for Echoes of the Rainbow.