Famous People with Name Simon

Simon Pontdemé            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simon Pontdemé: is a French goalkeeper currently playing for Niort.

Simon Marmion            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simon Marmion: was a French, or Burgundian, painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy.

Simon Vouet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simon Vouet: was a French painter and draftsman, who helped introduce the Italian Baroque style to France.A French contemporary, lacking the term "Baroque", said, "In his time the art of painting began to be practiced here in a nobler and more beautiful way than ever before," and the allegory of "Riches" (illustration, right) demonstrates a new heroic sense of volumes, a breadth and confidence without decorative mannerisms.

Simon Maupin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simon Maupin: was a French architect. He became famous when he drew up the plans of the City hall of Lyon, built between 1646 and 1651. It was presumed that he only executed a project made by Girard Desargues, but it seems he took his orders from the consular advice.

Simon Njami            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simon Njami: is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots.[1] He is also a consultant in visual arts for the Association Française d'Action Artistique and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine "Revue Noire". His publications include essays in the catalogue for the Sydney Biennale and other exhibition catalogues. Njami has been the artistic director of the Bamako photography biennale since 2001, and was co-curator with Fernando Alvim of the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography, including Africa Remix and the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg in 2008.

Claude Simon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Claude Simon: French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and died in Paris, France.

Simone Simon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simone Simon: was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931.Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was born in Béthune, France. She was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin, a French engineer, and Erma Maria Domenica Giorcelli, an Italian housewife. She grew up in Marseille. She went to Paris in 1931 and worked briefly as a singer, model and fashion designer.

Théodore Simon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Théodore Simon: a French psychologist and psychometrician. He co-created the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale tests with Alfred Binet.

Eugène Simon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Eugène Simon: was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius.

Émilie Simon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Émilie Simon: a singer and composer of electronic music.In May 2003, she released her debut album Émilie Simon. The electronic album was critically acclaimed and went on to become a commercial success. To promote her album, she did numerous live performances and TV app