SIMS

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SIMS or sims may refer to:

Contents 1 Last name 2 Computer related 3 Geography 4 Other

[edit] Last name

• Sims, a British surname
• Charles Sims (painter), British painter
• Christopher A. Sims, American economist
• Derrick Sims, American filmmaker
• George Robert Sims, British journalist and author
• Howard Sims ("Sandman" Sims), American vaudeville dancer
• J. Marion Sims, American gynaecological surgeon
• John Sims, botanist
• Michael Sims, an American non-fiction writer
• Thomas Sims, subject of a notorious American fugitive slave case
• Tom Sims, American snowboarding pioneer
• Zoot Sims, American jazz tenor saxophonist

[edit] Computer related

• The Sims, a life simulation computer and video game series by designer Will Wright (see List of The Sims games)
  • The Sims, the first game in The Sims series
  • The Sims 2, the second game in The Sims series
  • The Sims 3,the forthcoming third game in The Sims series
• Sim (Maxis Sim games), the name of the humanoid characters that populate Maxis Sim games
• Student information system, computer software for managing student records
• SIMS.net, a School Information Management System developed by Capita
• SIMS (video game company), a Japanese video game publisher and developer

[edit] Geography

• Sims, Illinois, a village in the United States
• Sims Township, Grant County, Indiana, a township in the United States
  • Sims, Indiana, an unincorporated community in that township

[edit] Other

• Secondary ion mass spectrometry, an elemental surface analysis technique
• Sims, a rapper with the Doomtree label
• Sims (novel), a book by F. Paul Wilson about genetically enhanced chimpanzees used as a labor force
• Services Institute of Medical Sciences, a medical school attached to Services Hospital in Lahore
• Subscriber Identity Module, removable smart card ICC
• Sims Group, a scrap metal collector which recently acquired Metal Management.