Syme

Syme (also Symes, Simes, and see Sime) is a surname, and may refer to:

• Sir Colin Syme (1903–1986), Australian medical administrator and innovator
• David Syme (1827–1908), a Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age
• David Syme (pianist) (born 1949), an American pianist.
• Ebenezer Syme(1826–1860), a Scottish-Australian journalist, proprietor and manager of The Age
• George Adlington Syme (1859–1929), an Australian surgeon.
• Hugh Syme, a Canadian musician and a Juno Award-winning graphic artist
• James Syme (1799–1870), a pioneering Scottish surgeon.
• Jennifer Syme (1972–2001) an American actress and production assistan
• Ronald Syme, (1903–1989), a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome

Fiction

• Syme is also a minor character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Gabriel Syme is the main character in G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.

Symes

• Bob Symes, stage name of inventor Robert Alexander Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmansdorff.
• Brad Symes (born 1985), Australian rules football midfielder
• Cyril Symes (born 1943), former Canadian politician
• Devina Symes (born 1943), Poet
• Michael Symes, English footballer

Simes

• Dimitri K. Simes

See also

• Syme, place name: see present-day Symi
• Syme (mythology), a Greek mythological figure
• Battle of Syme
• Syme (1984)
• SymE toxin, regulated by SymR RNA