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Academics

* Szymon Askenazy – a historian and diplomat who served as the first Polish representative at the League of Nations * Szymon Datner – a Polish-Jewish historian and anti-Nazi partisan fighter

Artists

* Szymon Bobrowski – an actor * Szymon Buchbinder – a 19th and early 20th century Polish painter *

Szymon Czechowicz Szymon Czechowicz (July 1689 – 21 July 1775) was a prominent Polish painter of the Baroque, considered one of the most accomplished painters of 18th century sacral painting in Poland. He specialized in sublime effigies of painted figures. ...

– an 18th-century Polish painter *

Szymon Goldberg Szymon Goldberg (1 June 190919 July 1993) was a Polish-born Jewish classical violinist and conductor, latterly an American. Born in Włocławek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw. His first teacher was He ...

– a Polish-American violinist and conductor * Szymon Szymonowic – a Polish Renaissance poet * Szymon Josiah Borzestowski - an Australian musician

Athletes

* Szymon Matuszek – a Polish footballer (midfielder) * Szymon Pawlak – a Polish footballer (defender) * Szymon Szewczyk – a Polish professional basketball player * Szymon Ziółkowski – an Olympic gold medal-winning

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Nobility

Szymon Marcin Kossakowski Szymon Marcin Kossakowski ( lt, Simonas Martynas Kosakovskis; 1741 in Šilai, Jonava – 1794) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman ( szlachcic), and one of the leaders of the Targowica Confederation. In 1793, he became the last Grand Hetman of Li ...

– an 18th-century Polish Lithuanian nobleman and a leader of the

Targowica Confederation The Targowica Confederation ( pl, konfederacja targowicka, , lt, Targovicos konfederacija) was a confederation established by Polish and Lithuanian magnates on 27 April 1792, in Saint Petersburg, with the backing of the Russian Empress Cather ...

* Szymon Samuel Sanguszko – a 17th-century nobleman of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

Szymon Starowolski Szymon Starowolski (1588 – 1656; Simon Starovolscius) was a writer, scholar and historian in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was probably born near Pruzhany, and died near Kraków. He was a very prolific writer, and left behind over 70 ...

– a 17th-century Lithuanian writer and scholar * Szymon Bogumił Zug – an 18th-century Polish nobleman and architect

Politicians

* Szymon Konarski – a 19th-century Polish democrat and revolutionary * Szymon Stanisław Giżyński – a member of Poland's lower house of parliament (the

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...

) from Law and Justice * Szymon Pawłowski (politician) – a member of Poland's lower house of parliament (the Sejm) from League of Polish Families *

Szymon Perske Shimon Peres (; he, שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the ninth president of ...

– the birth name of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres *

Szymon Niemiec Szymon Niemiec (born 5 October 1977, in Warsaw) is a Polish priest, gay rights activist, journalist, photographer, and politician. He is the founder of the first Polish Gay Pride parade, '' Parada Równości'' held in 2001. From 2000 to 2006, Ni ...

– a vice president of Polish party Union of the Left, gay activist and founder of first Polish

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Others

Szymon Winawer Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish-Jewish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. Tournament and match results At the Paris 1867 tournament held at the Café de la Régence, his first ...

– a chess player {{given name Polish masculine given names