Famous People with Name Sima

Sima Guang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sima Guang: was a Chinese historian, scholar, and high chancellor of the Song Dynasty.

Sima Qian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sima Qian: was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (???) of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian (??), an overview of the history of China covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Han Wudi (???). His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese historiography.

Sima Xiangru            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sima Xiangru: was a Chinese writer. He was a minor official of the Western Han Dynasty but was better known for his poetic skills, jiu business, and controversial marriage to the widow Zhuo Wenjun after both eloped. One of his most famous works is the Chang Men Fu (literally "Ode of the Wide Gate"), written in the style fu, of rhymed prose under commission from a former Empress.

Sima Zhen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sima Zhen: , was a Chinese historian born in what is now Jiaozuo, Henan during the Tang Dynasty.Sima Zhen was one of the most important commentators on the Shiji.[1] His commentary is known as the Shiji Suoyin (????), which means "Seeking the Obscure in the Grand Scribe's Records".[2]

Sima Bina            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Sima Bina: a master of Persian classical music and Iran's top researcher, composer, singer and song-writer of Iranian folk music. She is currently living in Cologne, Germany.After graduating from Tehran University in 1969 with a major in Arts, Sima Bina continued and completed her studies with master Abdollah Davami, one of the most learned authorities on Persian music.Her main focus is Iranian folk music. Bina has been able to gather and revive a collection of almost forgotten Iranian folk songs and melodies. A captivating vocalist, Sima Bina is one of the leading exponents of the traditional music of Khorasan. For decades she has done extensive research on Persian folk songs, collecting, recording, writing and re-interpreting popular regional music. Her works cover the whole spectrum of Iranian folk music including Mazandarani music, Kurdish music, Turkmen music, Baloch music, Lor music.