Famous People with Name Symon

Symon Budny            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Symon Budny: (c.1530 – 1593) was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian. Published in polish language the Old Testament and New Testament with commentaries and notes (1570,1574,1589), which was the first approach of the world literature to the radical rationalist critique of the Gospels.

Symon Vasilyevich Petlura            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Symon Vasilyevich Petlura: was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the Russian Civil War, he was briefly Head of the Ukrainian State. In 1926 Petlura was assassinated in Paris. Petlura was born on May 10th, 1879, in Poltava, Ukraine, the son of Vasyl Petlura and Olha Marchenko, urban dwellers of Cossack extraction. Cossack, as opposed to peasant, heritage allowed certain privileges regarding land ownership, taxes and access to education in the Russian Empire, of which Ukraine was then part.

Don Symon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Don Symon: is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Along with Kevin Lawton, Barrie Mabbott, Ross Tong and Brett Hollister (cox) Symon won the Bronze medal in the coxed four.

Hon Sir Josiah Henry Symon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Hon Sir Josiah Henry Symon: Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, was a member of the Australian Senate in the First Australian Parliament, and an Attorney-General of Australia. He was elected as the member for Sturt in the South Australian House of Assembly several weeks later

Michael Stuart "Mike" Symon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Michael Stuart "Mike" Symon: was elected as the new Australian Labor Party member for the federal seat of Deakin in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2007 federal election. He was previously an electrician and Occupational Health and Safety Officer of the Electrical Trad

Peter Dudley Symon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Peter Dudley Symon: was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia between 1972 to 2008.Mr Symon was a member of the Central Committee of the original Communist Party of Australia (formed in 1920, disbanded in 1991), and was one of the hundreds who either resi