Saint-Simon

Saint-Simon (or Saint Simon) can refer to various things:

Places

Saint-Simon is part of the name of several communities around the world.

Canada

• Saint-Simon, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, a parish municipality in the Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec
• Saint-Simon, Montérégie, Quebec, a municipality in southwestern Quebec on the Yamaska River in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality
• Saint-Simon, New Brunswick, a settlement in Gloucester County, New Brunswick
• Saint-Simon-les-Mines, Quebec, a municipality in the Municipalité régionale de comté de Beauce-Sartigan in Quebec, Canada

France

• Saint-Simon, Aisne, in the Aisne département
• Saint-Simon, Cantal, in the Cantal département
• Saint-Simon, Charente, in the Charente département
• Saint-Simon, Lot, in the Lot département
• Saint-Simon-de-Bordes, in the Charente-Maritime département
• Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille, in the Charente-Maritime département

United States of America

• St. Simons, Georgia

Organizations

• Saint-Simon Foundation, a defunct French think tank

People

• Simon the Zealot, one of the apostles of Jesus, canonized
• Simon the Athonite aka Simon the Myrrhbearer, founder of Simonopetra, the monastery of Mount Athos, canonized
• Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, courtier in the court of Louis XIV and writer of memoirs thereof
• Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, utopian socialist and originator of Saint-Simonism
• San Simón, a Latin American folk saint
• Simon the Tanner, after whom the cave church in Egypt is named

See also

• St. Simon, a famous racehorse
• Saint-Simonism, an early socialist philosophy
• Saint Simeon (disambiguation)
• Simon of Trent, canonized 1575 (approximate)
• The Shins' album Chutes Too Narrow, which contains the song "Saint Simon"