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Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo (born 1958) is an English radio presenter and author, known for BBC Radio 1 Breakfast, 5 Live, Radio 2 Drivetime, Kermode and Mayo's Take, and the Itch novels; distinct from Judge Simon Peter Mayo QC.
Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney (born 1957, Cambridge) is an English actor, writer, director, and co-founder of Complicité, known for Mnemonic, A Disappearing Number, The Encounter, opera work, and the Yomiuri and Konrad Wolf prizes.
Simon McCoy
Simon McCoy (born 1961) is a British news presenter of ITV, TV-am, Sky News (Royal Correspondent), 18 years at BBC News, and a brief 2021 stint at GB News, known for deadpan viral clips.
Simon Mead
Simon Mead is a British consultant neurologist, Clinical Lead of the UK National Prion Clinic and Deputy Director of the MRC Prion Unit at University College London.
Simón Méndez‐Ferrer
Simón Méndez-Ferrer is a Spanish hematology researcher, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature finding that circadian rhythms regulate blood stem cell release.
Simon Mepham
Simon Mepham, also Meopham (c. 1275 to 1333), was a Kent-born Oxford doctor of theology who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1327 until his death in 1333.
Simon Michel
Simon Michel, born 1977, is a Swiss business executive who has led the medical-technology group Ypsomed since 2014 and sits in the Swiss National Council for the FDP.
Simon Middelhoek
Simon Middelhoek is a Dutch electrical engineer who studied thin magnetic films at IBM Zurich and, from 1969, led silicon sensor research as professor of electronic instrumentation at TU Delft.
Simon Mignolet
Simon Mignolet (born 1988, Sint-Truiden) is a Belgian goalkeeper who played for Sunderland, Liverpool (204 games, 2019 Champions League winner), and Club Brugge (four Belgian titles), with 35 Belgium caps; retiring in 2026.
Simon Mongey
Simon Mongey is an Australian-born economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis who works on macroeconomics and labor economics, and won the 2026 Frisch Medal.
Simon Monjack
Simon Monjack (1970–2010), British screenwriter, director and producer of Two Days, Nine Lives and credited on Factory Girl; husband of actress Brittany Murphy, whose 2009 death he did not survive, dying in 2010 of pneumonia and anemia.
Simon Moroney
Simon Moroney, born 1959, is a German-New Zealander chemist who co-founded the biotech company MorphoSys in Germany in 1992 and led it as chief executive until 2019.
Simon Myers
Simon R. Myers is a University of Oxford professor of mathematical genomics known for mapping recombination hotspots in the human genome and dating admixture from modern DNA.
Simon N. Patten
Simon N. Patten, also known as Simon Nelson Patten, was an American economist at the Wharton School who theorized a shift from a pain economy to a pleasure economy.
Simon N. Wood
Simon N. Wood is a statistician holding the Chair of Computational Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, known for the R package mgcv and for introducing synthetic likelihood.
Simon Navagattegama
Simon Navagattegama (සයිමන් නවගත්තේගම, 1940–2005) was a Sri Lankan Sinhala novelist, playwright, and actor whose "hunter stories", beginning with Sansaranyaye Dadayakkaraya in 1981, pioneered surrealist fiction.
Simon Neil
Simon Alexander Neil (born 1979, Irvine, Scotland) is the Scottish vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of Biffy Clyro, also of Marmaduke Duke and Empire State Bastard, known for Stratocaster-plus-Metal Zone tones and ten albums through Futique (2025).
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) was a Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician in the United States Navy whose astronomical constants and ephemerides remained the international standard until 1984.
Simon Newstead
Simon Newstead (born 1979) is a British structural biologist and David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford, known for crystallographic and cryo-EM structures of SLC membrane transport proteins.
Simon Niepmann
Simon Niepmann (born 1985) is a Swiss rower who won Olympic gold in the lightweight men's coxless four at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Simon O'Brien (presenter)
Simon O'Brien (born 1965, Garston, Liverpool) is an English actor and presenter, the original Damon Grant in Brookside (1982–1987), later host of property shows Find It, Fix It, Flog It and The Great House Giveaway, and Liverpool's first cycling champion.
Simon Oakland
Simon Oakland (born Simon Weiss, 1915 or 1922–1983), American character actor and former concert violinist; played Dr. Richmond in Psycho, Lt. Schrank in West Side Story, and Tony Vincenzo in Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
Simon of Cyrene
Simon of Cyrene is the man the Synoptic Gospels name as compelled by soldiers to carry Jesus' cross on the way to Golgotha, coming from Cyrene in modern Libya.
Simon of Kéza
Simon of Kéza (Kézai Simon) was a 13th-century Hungarian chronicler and court cleric of King Ladislaus IV, author of the Gesta Hungarorum, written between 1282 and 1285.
Simon of the Desert
Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto) is Luis Buñuel's 1965 Mexican satirical short feature about the pillar ascetic Simeon Stylites, starring Claudio Brook and Silvia Pinal as the Devil; his last Mexican film, a Venice prize winner.
Simon Osindero
Simon Osindero is a machine learning researcher and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, credited by the 2024 Nobel Committee for the 2006 deep learning pre-training breakthrough.
Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky, American journalist and PBS NewsHour Special Correspondent; former VICE News reporter behind Russian Roulette and Selfie Soldiers; abducted in Sloviansk 2014; duPont and Emmy winner.
Simon P. Norton
Simon P. Norton, or Simon Phillips Norton, was a British mathematician at Cambridge who co-discovered the Harada–Norton group and co-authored the ATLAS of Finite Groups.
Simon P. Ringer
Simon P. Ringer is an Australian materials scientist and microscopist known for atom probe tomography and physical metallurgy, and a University of Sydney professor since 2001 who became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) in December 2022.
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham, 1970) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter, co-creator of Spaced and the Cornetto Trilogy, and star of Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and Ice Age.