Leadership

• Simone Veil

  French stateswoman and diplomat. A survivor of Auschwitz.

  • First pfresident of the European Parliament (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Sports

• Simone Mathieu
  • 1938-39 French Open tennis champion (see list of French Open Tennis Champions)

Stage and Screen

• Simone Hardy

  Fictional character.

  • Character on the soap opera ''''General Hospital'''' (see list of Characters on ''General Hospital'')
• Simone Signoret (born 1921, died 1985)

  German actress.

  • 1959 Academy Award winner for her performance in Room at the Top (see list of Oscar Winners for Best Actress)
  • Winner of the 1959 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Room at the Top (see list of Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winners)

The Literary World

• Simone de Beauvoir (born 1908, died 1986)

  French novelist and essayist.

  • Wrote Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
• Simone Castonguay

  Fictional character.

  • Lois''s friend in Stephen King''s novel Insomnia (see list of Characters in Insomnia)