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Simon Jones (actor)
Simon Jones is an English actor born in 1950. He is best known for playing Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Lord Brideshead in Brideshead Revisited.
Simon Jones (cricketer)
Simon Philip Jones (born 1978, Morriston, Wales), Welsh fast bowler, son of Jeff Jones; 18 Tests for England 2002-2005, 59 wickets; 18 wickets at 21 in the 2005 Ashes; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006; retired 2013.
Simon Jordan
Simon Jordan, English businessman and talkSPORT broadcaster, owned and chaired Crystal Palace FC 2000-2010 after selling Pocket Phone Shop; promotion in 2004, administration in 2010, then a media career.
Simon Kaggwa Njala
Simon Kaggwa Njala (born 1976, Jinja, Uganda) is a Ugandan journalist and NBS TV talk-show host of Morning Breeze and Frontline, famous for the 2012 'Why are you gay?' interview with Pepe Julian Onziema that became a global meme; he lost the 2016 Busiro South parliamentary race to Peter Sematimba.
Simon Kainzwaldner
Simon Kainzwaldner (born 1994, Bolzano) is an Italian doubles luger. Racing with Emanuel Rieder since 2018, he won men's doubles gold and team relay bronze at Cortina 2026, after 2012 Youth Olympic gold with Florian Gruber.
Simon Kapwepwe
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe (1922 to 1980) was a Zambian anti-colonialist, politician, and author, a childhood friend of Kenneth Kaunda, who served as Zambia's second vice-president from 1967 to 1970.
Simon Karpatkin
Simon Karpatkin was an American hematologist and Director of Hematology at NYU School of Medicine who established platelet heterogeneity and platelets' role in tumor metastasis.
Simon Katich
Simon Matthew Katich (born 1975) is an Australian former Test opener who scored 4,188 runs at 45.03 in 56 Tests and later coached RCB, SRH, Manchester Originals, and Mumbai Indians Cape Town.
Simon Kimbangu
Simon Kimbangu (circa 1889 to 1951) was a Congolese religious leader and Baptist catechist whose brief 1921 ministry inspired central Africa's most important independent Christian movement.
Simon Kinberg
Simon David Kinberg (born 1973, London) is a British-American screenwriter, producer, and director, architect of Fox's X-Men films, producer of The Martian, co-creator of Star Wars Rebels, and writer-producer of Lucasfilm's new Star Wars trilogy announced in 2024.
Simon Kirke
Simon Kirke, English rock drummer, founding member of Free (1968) and Bad Company (1973), the only continuous member of Bad Company, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, solo artist.
Simon Kjær
Simon Thorup Kjær (born 1989, Horsens) is a Danish former centre-back and national captain, 132 caps, AC Milan 2020–2024, Serie A champion 2022, saved Christian Eriksen at EURO 2020, retired January 2025.
Simon Kuznets
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985) was an American economist and Harvard professor who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work on economic growth and standardized gross national product.
Simon Langham
Simon Langham was an English Benedictine monk who rose from Abbot of Westminster to Bishop of Ely, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury, and cardinal, dying at Avignon in 1376.
Simon Le Bon
Simon Le Bon is an English singer and lyricist, best known as the lead vocalist of the Birmingham new wave band Duran Duran, which he has fronted since 1980.
Simon Le Moyne
Simon Le Moyne (1604–1665) was a French Jesuit missionary to the Hurons in New France who made six peace journeys into Iroquois country between 1654 and 1662.
Simon Levene
Simon Levene, born 1971, is a London-based venture capitalist who cofounded Mosaic Ventures in 2014 and is known for early investments in Etsy, Squarespace, and Veriff.
Simon Leviev (שמעון יהודה חיוט)
Simon Leviev (Shimon Yehuda Hayut), Israeli con man who posed as diamond heir Lev Leviev's son to defraud Tinder matches; subject of 2022 Netflix film The Tinder Swindler; convicted in Israel 2019, arrested in Georgia 2025.
Simon Levy case
Simon Levy case: 2026 Old Bailey prosecution of Simon Levy (born 1985), Tottenham serial sex offender, for murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and raping a third woman; whole life order, with admitted police and CPS failings.
Simon Lightwood
Simon Lightwood is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been MP for Wakefield and Rothwell since 2024 and serves as a UK transport and equalities minister.
Simon Lin
Simon Lin, born Lin Hsien-ming (林宪铭) in 1952, is a Taiwanese business executive who has led Wistron since leading its 2001 spin-off from Acer, where he was once president.
Simon Litsyn
Simon Litsyn is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University who co-founded the fast-charging battery company StoreDot in 2012, serving as its Chief Strategy Officer.
Simon Loong
Simon Loong (龍沛智) is a Hong Kong fintech entrepreneur, born in 1977, who founded the lending and digital-banking group WeLab in January 2013 and remains its Group CEO.
Simon M. Helfgott
Simon M. Helfgott is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for the NEJM Case Records.
Simon MacCorkindale
Simon MacCorkindale (1952–2010), British actor also known as Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale; played Simon Doyle in Death on the Nile, Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest, and Dr Harry Harper in Casualty; died of bowel cancer in London.
Simon Magus
Simon Magus, also called Simon of Gitta, is a first-century Samaritan magician in Acts 8 who offered Peter money to buy the Holy Spirit's power.
Simon Mann
Simon Mann (1952-2025), British ex-SAS officer and mercenary, co-founder of Executive Outcomes and Sandline, led the failed 2004 Wonga Coup against Equatorial Guinea's President Obiang, was jailed in Zimbabwe and Malabo, pardoned in 2009.
Simon Marlin
Simon Marlin is a British DJ and record producer, founder of the West London house act The Shapeshifters, whose debut single "Lola's Theme" reached number 1 in 2004.
Simon Martirosyan
Simon Martirosyan (Սիմոն Մարտիրոսյան), born 1997, is an Armenian weightlifter who took Olympic silver at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 and held 109 kg world records.
Simon Mathews (baseball)
Simon Mathews (Simon Ambrose Mathews, born 1995) is an American baseball coach, Washington Nationals MLB pitching coach since November 2025; former Angels minor league pitcher, Georgetown standout, and Cincinnati Reds assistant pitching coach.