Simeon
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Simeon or Shimon (שִׁמְעוֹן) is a Hebrew name meaning "Hearkening; listening", Standard Hebrew Šimʿon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimʿôn)
- Simeon (biblical figure), one of Jacob's sons
- Simeon the Righteous, righteous man in the New Testament, blessed Jesus and his parents in the Jerusalem temple
- Simeon of Jerusalem, 2nd Bishop of Jerusalem
- Tribe of Simeon, one of the 12 tribes of the Jewish people
- Shimon ben Gamliel, nasi of the sanhedrin in 50 CE
- Simeon (abbot), Abbot of Ely Cathedral] from 1082
- Shimon Moore, frontman of Australian rock band Sick Puppies
- Shimon bar Yohai, a famous Rabbi who died on Lag beOmer
- Shimon Shkop, a world-renowned pre-war Jewish Rabbi
- Simon of Trent
- Simeon I of Bulgaria, a medieval Bulgarian tsar
- Simeon II of Bulgaria, the last Bulgarian tsar before Communist government
- Simeon Stylites, a 5th century monk
- Simeon the Proud, a 14th century Grand Prince of Moscow
- Simeon Bekbulatovich, a 16th century Russian ruler
- Saint Simeon of the Serb Orthodox Church; "Stefan Nemanja", serbian medieval ruler
