Famous People with Name Simpson

Simpson Newland            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Simpson Newland: pastoralist, author and politician, was a pioneer in Australia who made significant contributions to development around the Murray River. He was also an author of practical works and novels. Ridgway Newland also became a magistrate and was for many years

Simpson (Sammy) Clairmonte Guillen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Simpson (Sammy) Clairmonte Guillen: in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is one of the few men to have played Test cricket for two countries. He played five Tests for the West Indies and three for New Zealand in the 1950s, one of which was the New Zealand team's first victory, over the West Indies.

Hon. Justice Carolyn Chalmers Simpson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Hon. Justice Carolyn Chalmers Simpson: is an Australian lawyer and judge.[1] Since 1994 she has served as a judge on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest civil court in the State of New South Wales, Australia.Simpson was a member of the University of Sydney Law Extension Committee from 1972 to 1976, an Officer of the Department of Youth and Community Services from 1974 to 1976, President of the Society of Labor Lawyers, and President of the Council for Civil Liberties from 1976 to 1979

Heli Simpson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Heli Simpson: an Australian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Veronica diAngelo on The Saddle Club. She's English on her father's side of the family and she's Estonian on her mother's side of the family. Unlike her character Veronica, Heli Simpson has two brothers. During her VCE studies, Simpson managed to achieve the maximum percentile ranking of 99.95. Heli graduated from Lauriston Girls School in 2005. In 2005, Simpson was selected for the Australian team for the International Biology Olympiad in Beijing, winning a bronze medal. Simpson currently taking a break from her university studies in medicine and living in France. Heli and Kia Luby are featured on the original sound tracks for "The Saddle Club

Ronald Albert Simpson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ronald Albert Simpson: was an Australian poet and poetry editor, artist and art lecturer. He was one of the Melbourne poets, and had a long tenure as poetry editor of The Age.Simpson was one of a group of Melbourne poets, including Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Vincent Buckley, Noel Macainsh, and Alexander Craig, who came together in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Gorton writes that this was "a combative time in Australian poetry" with different "cliques" operating, including the Jindyworobaks, the New Poets and the Melbourne poets[1] The Melbourne poets were "deliberately prosaic ... finding their poetry in suburbs and ordinary days". [1] Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe reiterated this in his obituary of Simpson in The Age on 10 October 2002. He wrote that Simpson "was a poet who put the Australian suburbs on the map. Verse had long been under the thumb of the landed gentry and Sydney quasi-bohemians, but he stuck resolutely, quietly, diurnally to the way most of us live".

Helen De Guerry Simpson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Helen De Guerry Simpson: was an Australian novelist.Helen was born in Sydney into a family that had been settled in New South Wales for over a 100 years. Her great-grandfather, Piers Simpson, R.N., was associated with Sir Thomas Mitchell and her maternal grandfather, the Marquis de Lauret, settled at Goulburn some 50 years before her birth. Her father, Edward Percy Simpson, was a well-known solicitor at Sydney who married Anne de Lauret. Helen Simpson was educated at the Rose Bay convent (now called Kincoppal-Rose Bay, School of the Sacred Heart) and at Abbotsleigh, Wahroonga and, in 1914, she went to France for further study. When war broke out she crossed to England and was employed by the admiralty in decoding messages in foreign languages. She then went to Oxford, studied music and, failing in her examination for the music bachelors degree, took up writing.

Jane Simpson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Jane Simpson: is a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.Simpson made her Football Ferns as a substitute in a 0-2 loss to Australia on 19 November 1997,and finished her international career with 17 caps and one goal to her credit.[