Famous People with Name Simen

Simen Agdestein            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Simen Agdestein: is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and ex-football star. He has won seven Norwegian chess championships, including the 2005 title.The young Agdestein developed a prodigious chess talent, culminating in his becoming Norway's national champion at the age of 15, an International Master at 16 and a Grandmaster at 18.

Simen Hestnæs            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Simen Hestnæs: also known as I.C.S. Vortex, or just simply Vortex, was the vocalist of the avant-garde metal band Arcturus, the former vocalist and bassist to the progressive black metal band Borknagar, and is the bass player and clean vocalist for the Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir.

Simen Brenne            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Simen Brenne: is a Norwegian footballer who currently plays for Odd Grenland.

Simen Østensen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Simen Østensen: is a Norwegian cross-country skier. He skies with the club Fossum IF. He finished third in the 2006-07 Tour de Ski. Before that, Østensen had started in a World Cup race only once (the 50 km in Holmenkollen in 2005, where he did not finish) before. Østens

Simen Berntsen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Simen Berntsen: is a retired Norwegian ski jumper. In the World Cup he finished once among the top 10, with a tenth place from Oslo in March 1997.

Dubravko Šimenc            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Dubravko Šimenc: is a former Croatian water polo player who competed for both Yugoslavia and Croatia.

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon: was a Belgian writer who wrote in French. He is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Maigret.Georges Simenon was born at 26 rue Léopold (now number 24) in Liège to Désiré Simenon and his wife Henriette. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902. Although Georges Simenon was born on February 13, 1903 superstition resulted in his birth being registered as having been on the 12th. This story of his birth is recounted at the beginning of his novel Pedigree.

Marc Jean Chrétien Simenon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marc Jean Chrétien Simenon: was a Belgian born[1] French director and screenwriter. He was the son of writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) and the husband of Mylène Demongeot from September 16, 1968. He died in a train accident in Paris.

Karen Simensen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Karen Simensen: was a Norwegian figure skater. She won a bronze medal at the 1927 World Figure Skating Championships, and competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics where she placed sixteenth.[

Kåre Simensen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Kåre Simensen: is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Alta and finished secondary school here in 1978. Between lower secondary school and upper secondary school he worked in the shale industry. He then worked with IT. He took education as an IT engineer at Gjøvik Engineer's College from 1979 to 1982 and has a degree in economics from Finnmark University College in 1990. He was a member of Alta municipal council from 1995 to 2007, serving the last term as deputy mayor. From 2007 to 2009 he was a member of the executive in Finnmark county council, and was also a board member of the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 2009 as the party's second candidate from Finnmark.