People

• Adelma Simmons
  Adelma Simmons
  "The First Lady of Herbs"Adelma Grenier Simmons was one of the leading herbal figures in America in the 20th century. A legend for her knowledge of herbal lore and history, she was also a prolific author and sparked an interest in herb gardening across the country...
  
   (1903–1997), American author and herbalist
• Al Simmons
  Al Simmons
  Aloysius Harry Simmons , born Aloisius Szymanski in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was an American baseball player. He played for two decades in the major leagues as an outfielder, and had his best years as a member of Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics during the 1930's...
  
   (1902–1956), American baseball player
• Allan Simmons
  Allan Simmons
  Allan Simmons was one of the founder members of the Association of British Scrabble Players and succeeded Peter Finley as its Chairman. He was the first Chairman of WESPA, the World English-language Scrabble Players Association...
  
   (born 1959), British scrabble player and author
• Andrew Simmons
  Andrew Simmons
  Andrew Simmons , better known by his ring name Andy Boy Simmonz, is a British professional wrestler. He is currently working in the independent circuit in the United Kingdom for several promotions. Simmons' most high profile work in the UK came in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance under the face...
  
   (born 1984), British wrestler
• Anthony Simmons (writer)
  Anthony Simmons (writer)
  Anthony "Tony" Simmons is a British writer/film producer. He was associated with, though separate from, the Free Cinema movement; he said he was greatly influenced by Humphrey Jennings and by Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie Il Grido.-Career:Simmons claimed: "I wasn’t aiming to be a film director. I...
  
   (born 1922), British writer and director
• Anthony Simmons (football) (born 1976), American NFL player
• Ashley Simmons (born 1986), American professional wrestler better known as Madison Rayne
• Barbara Lett-Simmons
  Barbara Lett-Simmons
  Barbara Lett-Simmons is an American politician.A Democratic elector from the District of Columbia in the 2000 U.S. Election, she abstained from voting in the Electoral College rather than vote for Al Gore as was expected, in protest of the District's lack of a voting representative in Congress....
  
   (born 1927), American politician
• Barry Simmons
  Barry Simmons
  Barry Simmons was the winner of the BBC Two show Are You an Egghead? and as a result became the sixth Egghead, joining Kevin Ashman, C. J...
  
  , British quiz show player
• Beth Simmons
  Beth Simmons
  Beth A. Simmons is an American academic and notable international relations scholar. She is currently Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at the Department of Government...
  
  , American academic
• Bill Simmons
  Bill Simmons
  William J. "Bill" Simmons III is a sports columnist, author, and podcaster. He currently writes columns and hosts podcasts for Grantland.com, which is affiliated with ESPN.com. He is a former writer for ESPN The Magazine and Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
  
   (born 1969), journalist & author
• Bob Simmons (football coach)
  Bob Simmons (football coach)
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  , American football coach
• Bob Simmons (stunt man)
  Bob Simmons (stunt man)
  Bob Simmons was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.-Biography:...
  
  , (1933–1988) English stunt man
• Bobby Simmons
  Bobby Simmons
  Bobby Simmons is an American professional basketball player.-College career:Simmons played three years of college basketball for DePaul University...
  
   (born 1980), American basketball player
• Brian Simmons
  Brian Simmons
  Brian Eugene Simmons is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals 17th overall in the 1998 NFL Draft...
  
    (born 1975), American NFL player
• Brian Simmons (baseball player)
  Brian Simmons (baseball player)
  Brian Simmons was a Major League Baseball outfielder.-Career:Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2nd round of the 1995 MLB amateur draft, Simmons would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Chicago White Sox on September 21, 1998, and appeared in his final game on October 7, 2001...
  
   (born 1973), American baseball player
• Cedric Simmons
  Cedric Simmons
  Cedric Simmons is an American professional basketball player for the Asefa Estudiantes of the Liga ACB. A 6'10",...
  
   (born 1976), American NBA player
• Charles Simmons (gymnast)
  Charles Simmons (gymnast)
  Charles Simmons was a British gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was born on December 24, 1885 in London. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912...
  
   (1885–1945), British gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Charles Simmons (author)
  Charles Simmons (author)
  Charles Simmons is an American editor and novelist. He is the author of Powdered Eggs , Salt Water , The Belles Lettres Papers, and Wrinkles and co-author together with Alexander Coleman of All There Is To Know - Readings From The Illustrious Eleventh Edition Of The Encyclopaedia BritannicaHe was...
  
  , author
• Charles Simmons (politician)
  Charles Simmons (politician)
  Charles James "Jim" Simmons was a British lecturer, journalist and politician.Simmons was born in Moseley, Birmingham. Following elementary education, he became a Primitive Methodist lay preacher at the age of 16. In World War I he served in the Worcestershire Regiment, seeing action in France,...
  
  , British Lord of the Treasury and later Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions
• Chelan Simmons
  Chelan Simmons
  Chelan Simmons is a Canadian actress, professional model and performer.-Early life:Simmons was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the middle child of three .-Career:...
  
   (born 1982), Canadian actress
• Chippy Simmons
  Chippy Simmons
  Charles "Chippy" Simmons was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward.- Biography :Simmons was born in West Bromwich and turned professional with West Bromwich Albion in April 1898...
  
  , born Charles Simmons, early 1900s English professional footballer
• Christopher Simmons
  Christopher Simmons
  Christopher Simmons is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based graphic designer, writer and educator.He served on the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA from 1996–1999, and again as president . Among his enduring accomplishments in that position was the creation of...
  
  , American designer, Author
• Coralie Simmons
  Coralie Simmons
  Coralie Denise Simmons is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001, she won the Peter J. Cutino Award, presented annually to the top American collegiate water polo player...
  
   (born 1977), American water-polo player
• Curt Simmons
  Curt Simmons
  Curtis Thomas "Curt" Simmons is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1947–50 and 1952-67. With right-hander Robin Roberts, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Simmons was one of the twin anchors of the starting rotation of the "Whiz Kids", the Philadelphia Phillies' ...
  
   (born 1929), American baseball player
• Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
   (born 1948), American writer
• David Simmons
  David Simmons
  David Simmons is an Australian rugby league player for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is at fullback, wing, or centre...
  
  
  • David Simmons (Australian politician)
    David Simmons (Australian politician)
    David William Simmons, OAM , a former Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1983 to 1996, representing the seat of Calare for the Australian Labor Party...
    
    , Australian politician
  • David Simmons (rugby), Australian rugby league player
• Don Simmons (artist), Canadian experimental artist and writer
• Don Simmons (ice hockey)
  Don Simmons (ice hockey)
  Donald William "Dippy" Simmons was a National Hockey League goaltender. He was called up by the Boston Bruins fom the Springfield Indians of the AHL in order to replace an ailing Terry Sawchuck who had left the Bruins in mid season of 1957...
  
  , Canadian National Hockey League player
• Donald C. Simmons, Jr.
  Donald C. Simmons, Jr.
  Donald C. Simmons, Jr. author and filmmaker, serves as Professor and Dean of the College of Public Service, Leadership and Graduate Studies at Dakota Wesleyan University, as well as executive director of their George McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service. He has held numerous elected...
  
  , American educator, author, historian and public servant
• Edward Simmons (painter)
  Edward Simmons (painter)
  Edward Emerson Simmons was an American Impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, the son of a Unitarian minister....
  
  , American Impressionist painter
• Edward E. Simmons
  Edward E. Simmons
  Edward E. Simmons Jr. was an electrical engineer and the inventor of the bonded wire resistance strain gauge....
  
  , American electrical engineer and inventor
• Frank Simmons (Stargate), American actor
• Furnifold McLendel Simmons
  Furnifold McLendel Simmons
  Furnifold McLendel Simmons was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1887 to 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1901 and 1931. He served as chairman of the powerful Committee on Finance from 1913 - 1919...
  
  , American politician
• Gene Simmons
  Gene Simmons
  Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1949), American musician
• Gustavus Simmons
  Gustavus Simmons
  Gustavus J. Simmons is a retired cryptographer and former manager of the applied mathematics Department and Senior Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories...
  
  , American cryptographer
• Harold Simmons, American businessman
• Henry Simmons
  Henry Simmons
  Henry Oswald Simmons, Jr. is an American actor.-Life and career:Simmons was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Aurelia, a school teacher, and Henry Simmons, Sr., an IRS agent. He is one of three children, including his twin sister, and another sister...
  
  , African-American actor
• Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
  Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
  Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. was an American chemist who discovered the Simmons-Smith reaction.In 1976, Dr. Simmons served as Chair of the Organic division of the American Chemical Society.-References:...
  
   (1929–1997) American chemist discoverer of Simmons-Smith reaction
  Simmons-Smith reaction
  The Simmons–Smith reaction is an organic cheletropic reaction in which a carbenoid reacts with an alkene to form a cyclopropane. It is named after Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. and R. D. Smith...
  
  
• J. K. Simmons
  J. K. Simmons
  Jonathan Kimble "J. K." Simmons is an American actor. He is best known for his roles on television as Dr. Emil Skoda in NBC's Law & Order , Assistant Police Chief Will Pope in TNT's The Closer, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger in the HBO prison drama Oz, on film as J...
  
  , American actor
• Jaason Simmons
  Jaason Simmons
  Jaason Simmons is an Australian actor best known for the role of Logan Fowler on the TV series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Australian actor
• James Simmons
  James Simmons
  James Simmons was a poet, literary critic and songwriter from Derry, Northern Ireland.-Biography:He was born into a middle-class Protestant family in Derry in 1933 and attended Campbell College in Belfast before moving to the University of Leeds to read for a degree in English...
  
  
  • James Simmons (poet), Irish poet, literary critic and songwriter
  • James Aubrey Simmons
    James Aubrey Simmons
    James Aubrey Simmons was a Canadian politician and notary.Born in Revelstoke, Saskatchewan, Simmons would go on to sit many times in the Canadian House of Commons representing the Yukon Territory....
    
    , Canadian politician and notary
  • James B. Simmons (clergyman)
    James B. Simmons (clergyman)
    James B. Simmons, D.D. , Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society from 1867 to 1874, was born in the township of Northeast, Dutchess County, New York. His father was a thrifty farmer of German extraction; his mother was of Scotch descent...
    
    , recording secretary American Baptist Home Mission Society
  • James F. Simmons
    James F. Simmons
    James Fowler Simmons was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born on a farm near Little Compton, he attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812. He was employed in various manufacturing concerns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and engaged in the manufacture of...
    
    , United States Senator from Rhode Island
  • James S. Simmons
    James S. Simmons
    James Samuel Simmons was a U.S. Representative from New York and nephew of fellow congressman Milton George Urner....
    
    , United States Representative from New York
  • James Simmons (baseball), professional baseball player
• Jason Simmons
  Jason Simmons
  Jason Lawrence Simmons is an American football strong safety who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 1998 NFL Draft...
  
  , American football player
• Jason and Kristopher Simmons
  Jason and Kristopher Simmons
  Jason Patrick Simmons and Kristopher Robert Simmons are American identical twins. Their parents are Maria and Robert Simmons. They were born in Los Angeles, California. From 2003 to 2006 , they played the character Wyatt Matthew Halliwell on the TV series Charmed. Kristopher and Jason started on...
  
  , American identical twins
• Jean Simmons
  Jean Simmons
  Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J...
  
   (1929–2010), English American actress
• Jeff Simmons (musician)
  Jeff Simmons (musician)
  Jeff Simmons, born May 1949 in Seattle, Washington, is a rock musician and former member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Simmons provided bass, guitar, and backing vocals for the group between 1970 and 1971. He left The Mothers just prior to the filming of 200 Motels in mid 1971...
  
  , American rock musician
• Joseph Simmons
  Joseph Simmons
  Joseph Ward Simmons , known by the stage name Rev. Run or DJ Run, is one of the founding members of the influential hip hop group Run–D.M.C., and a practicing minister, known as Reverend Run. Simmons was born in Hollis, Queens, New York. He is the younger brother of Daniel "Danny" Simmons, Jr...
  
  , American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
• Julian Simmons
  Julian Simmons
  Julian Lynus Simmons is a Northern Irish television presenter, best known as a continuity announcer on UTV, mainly covering weekend evenings.-Present role:...
  
  , Northern Irish television presenter
• Kimora Lee Simmons
  Kimora Lee Simmons
  Kimora Lee Simmons is an American fashion model, and former president and Creative Director for Phat Fashions.-Early life:...
  
  , American model and designer
• Lendl Simmons
  Lendl Simmons
  Lendl Mark Platter Simmons is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman, an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler and a part-time wicket-keeper....
  
  , West Indian cricketer
• Lindsay Simmons
  Lindsay Simmons
  Lindsay Anne Simmons is a former Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Morialta for the Australian Labor Party from her election in 2006 until the 2010 election.-Early life:...
  
  , Australian politician
• Lionel Simmons, American basketball player
• Louie Simmons
  Louie Simmons
  Louie Simmons is a Powerlifter, Writer,Inventor and a Pioneer in Strength and Speed development in order to better athletic performance.Louie's current objective is to bring the highest standard of theoretical and practical training methodologies to the current strength and conditioning, coaching...
  
  , American powerlifter, strength training writer, and trainer
• Lydia Simmons
  Lydia Simmons
  Lydia Emelda Simmons is a Labour Party local politician in Slough, who had the distinction of being the first black, woman Mayor in England.She served as a Councillor on Slough Borough Council 1979-1994 and from 1999 until 2007. She was the longest-serving member of the Council, by the end of her...
  
  , British politician
• Mabel "Madea" Simmons, fictional character
• Mark Simmons
  Mark Simmons
  Mark Simmons is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Kansas....
  
  , American NFL player
• Matthew Simmons
  Matthew Simmons
  Matthew Roy Simmons was founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Company International, and was a prominent advocate of peak oil. Simmons was motivated by the 1973 energy crisis to create an investment banking firm catering to oil companies. In his previous capacity, he served as energy...
  
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  Floruit
  Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
  
   2000s), American economist
• Matty Simmons
  Matty Simmons
  Matty Simmons is a former newspaper reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and Executive Vice President of Diner's Club, the first credit card company...
  
  , American newspaper reporter
• Michael Simmons
  Michael Simmons
  Michael Simmons is the author of the bestselling book,The Student Success Manifesto: How to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity, which has received testimonials from Mark Victor Hansen, Stephen Covey, Russell Simmons, and Paul Orfalea .Simmons, along with wife Sheena Lindahl, founded...
  
  , 19th century American pioneer
• Norman Simmons
  Norman Simmons
  Norman Simmons was a Nobel Prize nominee and DNA research pioneer. Simmons was nominated in 1972 for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Dr. Elkan Bout on proteins and polypeptides and was also recognized for isolating a structurally pure form of DNA...
  
   (1915–2004), Nobel Prize winner
• Norman Simmons
  Norman Simmons (musician)
  Norman Simmons is an American arranger, composer, educator, and most prominently a pianist who has worked extensively with Helen Humes, Carmen McRae, and Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day, and Joe Williams among others.-Biography:...
  
  , American jazz musician
• Paris Simmons
  Paris Simmons
  Paris Simmons is an English footballer currently playing for New Orleans Jesters in the USL Premier Development League.-England:...
  
   (born 1990), English football (soccer) player
• Paul Simmons
  Paul Simmons
  Paul Simmons is an American drummer. Currently, he is the drummer for the Reverend Horton HeatHe is previously most well known as the drummer for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers from 2003 to 2005. He was also the drummer in Christian rock band Petra from 2003 until their retirement in 2005...
  
  , American drummer
• Phil Simmons
  Phil Simmons
  Philip Veraint Simmons is a former skilled all-round cricketer who played as an opening batsman a useful bowler and a talented slip fielder.-Career:...
  
   (born 1963), West Indian cricketer
• Philip Simmons
  Philip Simmons
  Philip Simmons was an American artisan and blacksmith specializing in the craft of ironwork. Simmons spent 77 years as a blacksmith, focusing on decorative iron work. When he began his career, blacksmiths in Charleston made practical, everyday household objects, such as horseshoes...
  
  , American artisan
• Rachel Simmons
  Rachel Simmons
  Rachel Simmons, born August 10, 1974, is an American author of the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls published in 2002. -Background:...
  
   (born 1974), American author
• Richard Simmons
  Richard Simmons
  Milton Teagle Simmons , known professionally as Richard Simmons, is an American fitness personality who promotes weight-loss programs, most famously through his Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos and DVDs and is known for his eccentric, outgoing and frequently flamboyant personality...
  
   (born 1948), American fitness trainer
• Richard Simmons (actor)
  Richard Simmons (actor)
  Richard Simmons , also known as Dick Simmons, was an American actor.-Early life and career:Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Simmons started his film acting career in 1937...
  
   (1913–2003), American actor
• Rob Simmons
  Rob Simmons
  Robert Ruhl "Rob" Simmons is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former U.S. Congressman from Connecticut. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's Second Congressional District as a Republican.Simmons ran as a candidate for the...
  
   (born 1943), American politician
• Robert G. Simmons
  Robert G. Simmons
  Robert Glenmore Simmons was a Nebraska Republican politician.Simmons was born on December 25, 1891 near Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He attended Hastings College from 1909 to 1911 and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1915. He was admitted to the bar in 1915 and set up practice in Gering, Nebraska...
  
  , (1891–1969), American politician
• Robert Wilson Simmons
  Robert Wilson Simmons
  Robert Wilson Simmons , better known as Bob Simmons, was an early surfing pioneer, and considered to be the father of the modern surfboard....
  
   (1919–1954), American surfer
• Ron Simmons
  Ron Simmons
  Ronald "Ron" Simmons is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and retired American football player. He is recognised as being the first Black world heavyweight champion in professional wrestling and the first of only two African Americans to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship,...
  
   (born 1958), African American wrestler & football player
• Ronald Gene Simmons
  Ronald Gene Simmons
  Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr. was a retired United States Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people over a weeklong period in 1987. Fourteen of the victims were members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her...
  
   (1940–1990), American mass murderer
• Roy Simmons
  Roy Simmons
  Roy Franklin Simmons is a former American football player who played for the National Football League. He played offensive lineman for the New York Giants and then with the Washington Redskins during Super Bowl XVIII in 1984. In 1992, he came out of the closet as gay on the Phil Donahue Show...
  
  , American football player
• Royce Simmons
  Royce Simmons
  Royce Simmons is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player, currently the head coach of St Helens RLFC in the European Super League...
  
  , Australian rugby league player
• Russell Simmons
  Russell Simmons
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  , American entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Ruth J. Simmons
  Ruth J. Simmons
  Ruth Jean Simmons is the 18th and current president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000. Simmons assumed office in fall of 2001....
  
  , 18th president of Brown University
  Brown University
  Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
  
  
• Shadia Simmons
  Shadia Simmons
  Shadia Simmons is a Canadian actress.-Career:Her first movie was Moonlight and Valentino, where she played the part of "Jenny Morrow", the daughter of a character played by Whoopi Goldberg. She played in the Disney production A Saintly Switch and was cast in a number of Disney Channel Original...
  
   (born 1986), Canadian actress
• Shraga Simmons
  Shraga Simmons
  Shraga Simmons is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi involved in Orthodox Jewish outreach. He is the senior editor of Aish.com and the director of JewishPathways.com, both Jewish learning websites. He has produced a number of short, online films about media bias in coverage of the Arab–Israeli...
  
  , American rabbi
• Sonny Simmons
  Sonny Simmons
  Huey "Sonny" Simmons is an American jazz musician.He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the english horn. At age 16 he took up the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument...
  
  , American jazz musician
• Stephen Simmons
  Stephen Simmons
  Stephen Simmons is a Scottish professional footballer who is currently signed with Scottish First Division club Queen of the South.-Heart of Midlothian:...
  
  , Scottish footballer player
• Sue Simmons
  Sue Simmons
  Susan "Sue" Simmons has been the lead female news anchor at WNBC television in New York City since 1980.-Background:Simmons grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem; her father was John Simmons, a renowned jazz bassist whose compatriots included Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, John...
  
  , American news anchor
• Ted Simmons
  Ted Simmons
  Ted Lyle Simmons is an American former professional baseball player and coach. A switch-hitter, Simmons was a catcher for most of his Major League Baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals , the Milwaukee Brewers and the Atlanta Braves...
  
   (born 1949), American baseball player
• Tony Simmons (football) (born 1974), American football player
• Tony Simmons (writer)
  Tony simmons (writer)
  Tony Simmons is a writer and journalist based in Panama City, Florida. Simmons is the online editor at The News Herald Tony Simmons is a writer and journalist based in Panama City, Florida. Simmons is the online editor at The News Herald Tony Simmons is a writer and journalist based in Panama City,...
  
  , writer and journalist
• Tony Simmons (athlete) (born 1948), British athlete
• Vanessa Simmons, American model
• William Simmons (politician), Canadian politician
• William Joseph Simmons (1880–1945), founded 2nd Ku Klux Klan in United States
• William J. Simmons (teacher)
• Wm Mark Simmons
  Wm Mark Simmons
  Wm. Mark Simmons in Independence, Missouri, is a writer best known for his humorous fantasy and horror novels.Simmons has worked a journalist, educator, entertainer, and broadcaster, spending over 30 years in the latter category working in classical music formats and NPR affiliates.Although he...
  
  , American author
• Zalmon G. Simmons
  Zalmon G. Simmons
  Zalmon Gilbert Simmons was a businessman, manufacturer, Wisconsin legislator, and Mayor of Kenosha, Wisconsin....
  
   (1828–1910), American businessman, manufacturer, and politician

Fictional characters

• Simmons (Red vs. Blue), a character in the machinima production Red vs. Blue
• Chanel Simmons, fictional character in The Cheetah Girls
• Diane Simmons, fictional character in Family Guy
• Mindy Simmons, character played by Michelle Pfeiffer
  Michelle Pfeiffer
  Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's Scarface . Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work...
  
   in an episode of The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  
• Thag Simmons
  Thagomizer
  Thagomizer is an informal name for the distinctive arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.-Paleobiology:...
  
  , fictional caveman from Gary Larson's comic The Far Side
• Mabel Simmons, fictional character played by Tyler Perry
  Tyler Perry
  Tyler Perry is an American actor, director, playwright, entrepreneur, screenwriter, producer, author, and songwriter. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2005, he released his first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman...
  
  

Education

• Simmons College of Kentucky
  Simmons College of Kentucky
  Simmons College of Kentucky, also referred to as Simmons College and Simmons Bible College, is a private, co-educational college located in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1879, Simmons College is a historically black college...
  
  , a historically black college in Louisville, Kentucky
• Simmons College (Massachusetts)
  Simmons College (Massachusetts)
  Simmons College, established in 1899, is a private women's undergraduate college and private co-educational graduate school in Boston, Massachusetts.-History:Simmons was founded in 1899 with a bequest by John Simmons a wealthy clothing manufacturer in Boston...
  
  , a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts

Businesses

• Simmons (electronic drum company)
  Simmons (electronic drum company)
  Simmons was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums that supplied electronic kits from 1980 to 1994. The drums' distinctive, electronic sound can be found on countless albums from the 1980s....
  
  , a manufacturer of electronic drum kits that went out of business in 1994, and the Simmons name/trademark acquired by Guitar Center in 2005
• Simmons & Company International
  Simmons & Company International
  Simmons & Company International is a private investment bank based in Houston, Texas, that specializes in energy research, trading, and capital structuring. It was founded in 1974 by Matthew Simmons who was motivated by the 1973 energy crisis to create an investment banking firm catering to oil...
  
  , a private investment bank based in Houston, Texas
• Simmons Bedding Company
  Simmons Bedding Company
  Simmons Bedding Company is a major manufacturer of mattresses and related bedding products. The company is founded in 1870. Simmons' flagship brand is Beautyrest, and it is one of the oldest companies of this type in the USA. According to a Simmons press release, net sales for 2005 were $855...
  
  , a bedding manufacturer
• Simmons & Simmons
  Simmons & Simmons
  Simmons & Simmons is an international legal practice with over 1,500 people and 19 offices located throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Its largest office is located in London, where almost half its legal staff are based....
  
  , an international law firm based in London
• Simmons Optics, a product line of rifle scopes, binoculars, and other optical products now owned by Bushnell