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Simon Stock

Simon Stock (c. 1165 – 1265) was an English Carmelite prior general remembered in tradition as the recipient of the Brown Scapular from the Virgin Mary.

Simon Stuart (conservation biologist)

Simon Stuart is a conservation biologist who developed the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, led the Global Amphibian Assessment, and chaired the IUCN Species Survival Commission from 2008 to 2016.

Simon Sudbury

Simon Sudbury, born Simon Theobald around 1316, was an English cleric who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor until rebels beheaded him in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

Simon task

The Simon task is a conflict paradigm in psychology in which responses are faster when a stimulus's irrelevant location matches the required left or right response.

Simon Tavaré

Simon Tavaré is a statistician and computational biologist known for coalescent theory and cancer evolution, and Founding Director of Columbia's Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics since 2018.

Simon Taylor (planter)

Simon Taylor (1739–1813) was a Jamaican sugar planter, slave owner, and politician who claimed ownership over 2,248 enslaved people and was among the richest men in the British empire.

Simon Temstrup Michelet

Simon Temstrup Michelet (1863–1942) was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian who held the Old Testament chair at the University of Kristiania from 1896 to 1933 and introduced historical-critical biblical scholarship in Norway.

Simon the Musician

Simon the Musician (Сымон-музыка) is a lyrical-epic poem in six parts by Yakub Kolas, written from 1911 to 1925, about a self-taught violinist from a poor peasant family.

Simon the Sorcerer

Simon the Sorcerer is a 1993 comedy point-and-click adventure game by the British studio Adventure Soft, in which a teenager is sent to a fairytale world against the wizard Sordid.

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.