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Simone Giertz
Simone Giertz is a Swedish inventor and YouTuber known as the "Queen of Shitty Robots" and for Truckla, a Tesla Model 3 converted into a pickup.
Simone Hankin
Simone Hankin, now Simone Fountain, born 1973 in Sydney, is an Australian water polo centre forward who won gold at Sydney 2000, the first Olympic women's water polo tournament, despite a dislocated shoulder.
Simone Inzaghi
Simone Inzaghi, born Piacenza 1976, Italian coach and former striker, brother of Filippo. Lazio player (scudetto 2000), Lazio and Inter coach, six trophies with Inter, two Champions League finals, now Al Hilal head coach.
Simone Joy Jones
Simone Joy Jones (born 1999), also S!MONE, is an American actress and R&B singer; Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker (2010), Lisa Wilkes on Bel-Air (2022–2025), debut album Magnet (2024).
Simone Koot
Simone Koot (Simone Margareta Koot), born 1980 in Utrecht, is a Dutch water polo player who won gold with the Netherlands at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, beating the USA 9-8 in the final, and bronze at the 2010 European Championships in Zagreb.
Simone Laudehr
Simone Laudehr (born 1986, Regensburg) is a German former footballer, 103 caps, 26 goals. World champion 2007 (scored the 2-0 final goal vs Brazil), European champion 2009 and 2013, Olympic gold 2016, later a producer at EA.
Simone Lontani
Simone Lontani (born 2008, Cesena) is an Italian forward for Parma in Serie A, formerly of AC Milan youth; scored twice on his Coppa Italia debut and at the 2025 U17 World Cup.
Simone Manuel
Simone Manuel (Simone Ashley Manuel, born 1996, Houston) is an American swimmer, first Black woman to win individual Olympic swimming gold (100 m free, Rio 2016, tied with Oleksiak); 7 Olympic medals, 20 World Championship medals, Stanford and Alto Swim Club.
Simone Martini
Simone Martini, born in Siena around 1284 and died in Avignon in 1344, was an Italian painter of the Sienese school known for his 1333 Annunciation in the Uffizi.
Simone Missick
Simone Missick (born Simone Cook), American actress from Detroit; played Misty Knight in Marvel's Luke Cage, The Defenders, and Iron Fist, and Judge Lola Carmichael in All Rise on CBS and OWN.
Simone Moro
Simone Moro, born 1967, is an Italian alpinist from Bergamo who made the first winter ascents of four 8,000-meter peaks and is a helicopter rescue pilot.
Simone Perrotta
Simone Perrotta (born 1977, Ashton-under-Lyne, England) is an Italian former midfielder for Reggina, Juventus, Bari, Chievo, and Roma; 2006 World Cup winner with 48 Italy caps.
Simone Raineri
Simone Raineri (born 1977), Italian rower, stroke of the gold-medal quadruple sculls at Sydney 2000 and silver at Beijing 2008; four-time Olympian with Fiamme Gialle, later Pararowing federal coach.
Simone Sandier
Simone Sandier is a French health economist who spent her career at CREDES, studying physician payment, health spending, and rationing under French national health insurance.
Simone Sanna‐Cherchi
Simone Sanna-Cherchi is a nephrologist and associate professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who studies genetic causes of kidney disease, especially congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
Simone Schwarz-Bart, born Simone Brumant in 1938, is a Guadeloupean novelist and playwright known for Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972), a central work of Caribbean literature.
Simone Segouin
Simone Segouin, codename Nicole Minet (1925-2023), French Resistance fighter with the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans; famous 1944 Chartres photograph with captured MP-40, captured 24 Waffen-SS soldiers, Croix de guerre recipient.
Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (born Simone Kaminker, 1921–1985), French actress; Oscar winner for Room at the Top (1960), César winner for Madame Rosa (1977), star of Casque d'or and Les Diaboliques, wife of Yves Montand.
Simone Simons
Simone Simons (born 1985) is the Dutch lead vocalist of the symphonic metal band Epica, a role she has held since 2002, classically trained after hearing Tarja Turunen, who released her debut solo album Vermillion with Arjen Lucassen in 2024.
Simone Vanni
Simone Vanni (born 1979, Pisa) is an Italian foil fencer, 2004 Olympic team gold medalist and 2002 individual world champion, now head coach of Italy's Olympic foil team after coaching Paralympic foil from 2015.
Simone Veil
Simone Veil (née Jacob, 1927–2017), French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician; health minister who carried France's 1975 abortion law, and first president of the directly elected European Parliament (1979–1982), the first woman to head an EU institution.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil (1909–1943), French philosopher, mystic, and activist; author of The Need for Roots and The Iliad, or the Poem of Force. Known for her concepts of attention and affliction, her factory year, her Spanish Civil War service, and her posthumous fame.
Simone Zaza
Simone Zaza (born 1991, Policoro) is a retired Italian centre-forward; Sassuolo, Juventus (2015/16 treble), West Ham, Valencia, Torino; 18 Italy caps, 2 goals; famous for the Euro 2016 penalty miss vs Germany; recorded retired 1 January 2025.
Simone Zimmerman
Simone Zimmerman (born 1990) is an American Jewish activist, co-founder of IfNotNow and former J Street U president, briefly Bernie Sanders' 2016 Jewish outreach coordinator and subject of the documentary Israelism.
Simonelli (crater on Pluto)
Simonelli is a 286-km-wide impact crater on Pluto's non-encounter hemisphere, IAU-approved May 30, 2019 and named for Damon Simonelli (1959–2004), the Cornell astronomer who modeled Pluto and Charon's interiors; it shows a concentric ring-like structure and may be Pluto's largest crater.
Simonetta Stefanelli
Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian actress born 1954 in Rome, played Apollonia in The Godfather (1972) at 16, worked in 1970s Italian cinema, married Michele Placido, retired in 1992, and runs a Rome fashion business.
Simonetta Vespucci
Simonetta Vespucci (Simonetta Cattaneo, c. 1453–1476) was a Genoese noblewoman who married Marco Vespucci of Florence and was idealized by Lorenzo de' Medici's circle; documented by a burial register and one letter, not by verified Botticelli portraits.
Simonides (Mercurian crater)
Simonides is an impact crater on Mercury near 29.1°S, 44.9°W, IAU gazetteer feature ID 5541, with listed diameters of 87 and 95 km, in the size band where Mercury lacks craters relative to the Moon.
Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 – 468/7 BC) was a Greek poet from Iulis on Ceos, ranked with Pindar, whose epigrams commemorated Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea.
Simons Foundation
The Simons Foundation is a New York City private foundation established in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons that funds basic research in mathematics and the sciences.