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Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), Scottish peer and British commando brigadier; led 1st Special Service Brigade ashore on Sword Beach on D-Day and linked up at Pegasus Bridge; DSO and MC.
Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller (born 1960, Hastings, England) is the British manager behind the Spice Girls, creator of the Idol TV franchise (Pop Idol, American Idol), founder of 19 Entertainment, sold to CKX in 2005, later XIX Entertainment.
Simon G. Thompson
Simon G. Thompson is a biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the MRC Biostatistics Unit and was Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge.
Simon Gagné
Simon Gagné, born 1980 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, is a Canadian former NHL left winger (Flyers, Lightning, Kings, Bruins; 601 points in 822 games) who won 2002 Olympic gold and the 2012 Stanley Cup, and is Quebec Remparts GM.
Simon Gallup
Simon Gallup, born Simon Johnathon Gallup, is an English bassist and the longest-serving member of The Cure after Robert Smith, playing bass since 1979 apart from a 1982 split.
Simon Gilchrist
Simon Gilchrist is an American economist and professor at New York University, known for the financial accelerator with Bernanke and Gertler and the Gilchrist–Zakrajšek credit spread index.
Simon Gilroy
Simon Gilroy is a British plant cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for calcium signaling research and plant experiments on the International Space Station.
Simon Gindikin
Simon Gindikin (Семен Григорьевич Гиндикин), born 1937, is a Moscow-school mathematician and Rutgers professor known for the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula and for rebuilding representation theory on integral geometry.
Simon Gotch
Simon Gotch, ring name of Seth Lesser (born 1982), American wrestler; formerly Ryan Drago; WWE 2013-2017 as half of The Vaudevillains with Aiden English, NXT Tag Team Champion 2015; later MLW, NOAH, indies.
Simon Gougnard
Simon Gougnard, Belgian field hockey midfielder (Red Lions), born 1991 in Nivelles; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020, silver Rio 2016, 2018 world and 2019 European champion; retired internationally 2023; Deloitte consultant and LSM graduate.
Simon Gray
Simon Gray, full name Simon James Holliday Gray (1936–2008), was an English playwright and diarist whose comic plays include Butley and Otherwise Engaged, alongside The Smoking Diaries.
Simon Grayson
Simon Grayson (born 1969, Ripon) is an English football manager and former player who won four promotions from League One with Blackpool, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Preston North End, later managing Sunderland, Bengaluru FC, and Hartlepool United.
Simon Gregorčič
Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906) was a Slovenian poet and Catholic priest, nicknamed the nightingale of Gorica, whose four volumes of verse, including the ode "Soči", made him Slovenia's most musical poet.
Simon Gregson
Simon Gregson, born Simon Gregory in 1974 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, is an English actor who has played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street since December 1989, cast at 14 with no acting experience, and is a Trearddur Bay RNLI shore crew volunteer.
Simon Groot
Simon Nanne Groot (1934–2025) was a Dutch seed breeder, a sixth-generation seedsman who founded East-West Seed in the Philippines in 1982 and won the 2019 World Food Prize.
Simon Hald
Simon Hald (Simon Hald Jensen, born 1994, Aalborg) is a Danish handball line player for Aalborg Håndbold and Denmark: four world titles (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025), Paris 2024 Olympic gold, and 2026 European gold.
Simon Hamilton (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir Simon Peter Hamilton, KBE, is a British Army officer and Deputy Chief of the General Staff since April 2026, formerly interim CEO and Director General Land at Defence Equipment & Support.
Simon Harris (politician)
Simon Harris (born 1986) is Ireland's Tánaiste, Minister for Finance, and Fine Gael leader; Taoiseach from April 2024 as the youngest ever, now set to resume the role in November 2027.
Simon Helberg
Simon Helberg (born 1980, Los Angeles) is an American actor, comedian, and pianist, known as Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory and as Golden Globe-nominated pianist Cosme McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Simon Heller
Simon R. Heller is a British diabetologist, Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, known for research on hypoglycemia and for developing the DAFNE education program.
Simon I of Kartli
Simon I of Kartli (Georgian: სიმონ I; 1537–1611) was a Bagrationi king who ruled Kartli in two periods, 1556–1569 and 1578–1599, resisting Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Empire.
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay is an infectious disease epidemiologist who co-founded the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor and Director of Research Strategy at IHME in Seattle.
Simon Ingersoll
Simon Ingersoll (1818–1894) was an American inventor from Stanwich, Connecticut, who received the basic 1871 patent for the tripod-mounted rock drill; his name survives in Ingersoll Rand.
Simon Islip
Simon Islip (c. 1300–1366) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1349 until his death, elevated after the Black Death killed his two predecessors-elect; he founded Canterbury College, Oxford.
Simon J. Davis
Simon J. Davis is a British immunologist and Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford, best known for the kinetic-segregation model of T-cell receptor activation.
Simon J. Draper
Simon J. Draper is a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford whose group developed the RH5.1 blood-stage malaria vaccine, 55% effective in a Burkina Faso trial.
Simon J. L. Billinge
Simon J. L. Billinge is an American materials scientist known for developing the atomic pair distribution function method; he became Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara in 2026.
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz, born 1941 at McCarty's, New Mexico, is an Acoma Pueblo poet known for From Sand Creek and Woven Stone, major works of the Native American Renaissance.
Simon Jäger
Simon Jäger is a labor economist who studies labor markets and inequality. He moved from MIT to Princeton in 2025 and won the Gustav Stolper Award in 2024.
Simon Johnson (economist)
Simon Johnson (Simon Henry Roberts Johnson), born 1963 in Sheffield, is an MIT economist who shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize for studies of how institutions affect prosperity.