Simons
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Simons is a surname, and may refer to
- Col. Arthur D. SimonsArthur D. SimonsColonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons was a US Army Special Forces officer, best known for leading the Son Tay raid, an attempted rescue of American prisoners of war from a North Vietnamese prison at Son Tay.-Early life:Arthur David Simons was born in New York City, moving to Missouri in his youth...
(1918 - 1979), U.S. Army Special Forces officer - Barbara SimonsBarbara SimonsBarbara Simons is a computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery . She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s ; she is founder and former Chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee...
(born 1941), American computer scientist - Billy SimonsBilly SimonsBilly Simons is an American singer-songwriter originally from Ludlow, Massachusetts. His music is often described as acoustic pop, rock, and folk...
(born 1983), American singer - Carlos SimonsCarlos SimonsCarlos W. Simons is a prominent lawyer from the Turks and Caicos Islands. He served on a four-member interim Advisory Council from July 1986 to 3 March 1988 after two previous Chief Ministers were forced to resign and ministerial government in the territory was suspended.Ministerial government...
(born 1954), Turks and Caicos Islands lawyer - Charles-Mathias SimonsCharles-Mathias SimonsCharles-Mathias Simons was a Luxembourgian politician and jurist. He was the third Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for seven years, from 1853 until 1860.-Ezternal links:...
(1802 - 1874), Luxembourg politician - Eric SimonsEric SimonsEric Owen Simons is a former South African cricketer. He was an all-rounder, and he played 23 One Day Internationals but no Tests for South Africa in the 1990s...
(born 1962), former South African cricketer - Heintje SimonsHeintje SimonsHendrik Nikolaas Theodoor Simons, known as Heintje and later on as Hein Simons, , is a Dutch singer and actor....
(born 1955), Dutch singer and actor - Henry Calvert SimonsHenry Calvert SimonsHenry Calvert Simons was an American economist at the University of Chicago. His anti-trust and monetarist models influenced the Chicago school of economics....
(1899 - 1948), American economist - Howard SimonsHoward SimonsHoward Simons was the managing editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal, and later curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University....
(1929 - 1989), American journalist - Howard L. Simons, economist
- James Harris SimonsJames Harris SimonsJames Harris "Jim" Simons is an American hedge fund manager, mathematician, and philanthropist.In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies, a private investment firm based in New York with over $15 billion under management; Simons is still at the helm, as CEO, of what is now one of the...
(born 1938), American mathematician and fund-manager - Jim SimonsJim Simons (golfer)James Bradley Simons was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and 1980s....
(1950 - 2005), American professional golfer - Menno SimonsMenno SimonsMenno Simons was an Anabaptist religious leader from the Friesland region of the Low Countries. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and his followers became known as Mennonites...
(1496 - 1561), Dutch Anabaptist - Moisés SimonsMoisés SimonsMoisés Simons , was a leading Cuban composer, pianist and orchestra leader. He was the composer of the Peanut Vendor, possibly the most famous piece of music created by a Cuban musician...
(1889 - 1945), Cuban composer - Nicholas SimonsNicholas SimonsNicholas Simons is a Canadian politician. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and member of the New Democratic Party. He represents the riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast.-Politics:...
, Canadian politician - Paullina SimonsPaullina SimonsPaullina Simons is the international best-selling author of the novels Tully, Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Lily and The Summer Garden.-Background:...
(born 1953), Russian author - Peter SimonsPeter SimonsPeter Simons, FBA, is a professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.He studied at the University of Manchester, and has held teaching posts at the University of Bolton, the University of Salzburg, where he is Honorary Professor of Philosophy, and the University of Leeds...
(born 1950), British philosopher - Rachel SimonsRachel SimonsRachel Simons was a South African communist and trade unionist who helped draft the Women's Charter.She was born in Latvia as Rachel Alexander and immigrated to Cape Town in 1929...
(1914 - 2004), South African communist and trade unionist - Raf SimonsRaf SimonsRaf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer. He studied Industrial design, but after a few years of self-study, he became a menswear designer in 1995...
(born 1968), Belgian fashion designer - Richard D. SimonsRichard D. SimonsRichard Duncan Simons is an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Acting Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1992 to 1993-Life:...
(born 1927), New York judge - Simone SimonsSimone SimonsSimone Johanna Maria Simons is a Dutch coloratura mezzo-soprano singer who is the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band Epica.-Biography:...
(born 1985), Dutch mezzo-soprano - Timmy SimonsTimmy SimonsTimmy Simons is a Belgian football central defender and defensive midfielder who plays for FC Nuremberg in the German Bundesliga. Simons' former clubs include Lommel, Club Brugge, and PSV Eindhoven. He won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 2002 while playing for Club Brugge.In the summer 2005 he decided...
(born 1976), Belgian footballer - Walter SimonsWalter SimonsWalter Simons was a German lawyer and politician. He served as president of the Reichsgericht from 1922 to 1929.-Biography:Walter Simons was a student of the jurist Rudolph Sohm, and was influenced by Humanism and Lutheran Pietism...
(1861 - 1937), German lawyer and politician
See also
- La Maison SimonsLa Maison SimonsLa Maison Simons, commonly known as Simons, is a fashion retailer in Quebec, Canada.-History:La Maison Simons was founded by the Simons family in 1840 in Quebec City, and is headquartered in that city. The store began operations as Simons House, where retail operations began in 1889...
- FitzsimmonsFitzsimmonsFitzsimons is a Irish surname of Norman origin.The name "FitzSymons" and its pre-standardization variants is not a clan name, but rather an individual patronymic passed down through various families which arrived at different times in Irish history...
- Simon (surname)Simon (surname)-A:* Abbey Simon , Jewish-American pianist* André Simon , French wine expert* André Simon , former French racing car driver* Anne Simon, American science advisor on the TV series The X-Files-B:...
, SimonSimonSimon is a common name, from Hebrew meaning "He who has heard/hears [the word of God]".Simon may also refer to:-Names:* Simon , including a list of people with the given name Simon... - SimoneSimoneSimone is a female given name derived from Simon, Hebrew Simeon, meaning "one who hears". It first appears in Iberia from the 10th century, as Jimena, Ximena, feminine eponym of Jimeno II of Pamplona, founder of the Jiménez dynasty...
- SimmonsSimmons-People:* Adelma Simmons , American author and herbalist* Al Simmons , American baseball player* Allan Simmons , British scrabble player and author* Andrew Simmons , British wrestler...
- SimmondsSimmondsSimmonds as a surname may refer to:* Kaleb Simmonds, Canadian singer, Canadian Idol contestant* Kennedy Simmonds, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician* Kim Simmonds, Welsh guitarist* Megan Simmonds, Jamaican Youth Olympian* Mark Simmonds, British politician...
- SymondsSymonds-People:*Alan Symonds , American theatre technical director*Andrew Symonds , Australian cricketer*Charles Symonds , English neurologist*Chas Symonds , English boxer*Craig Symonds , American historian...
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