Sims (surname)
Sims is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Art and entertainment
Music and Dance
- Ezra Sims, American composer
- Howard "Sandman" Sims, American vaudeville dancer
- Hylda Sims, English folk musician
- Jamal Sims, American choreographer and director
- Kym Sims, American singer
- Matthew Simms, English guitarist
- Natalie Sims, American recording artist and songwriter
- Ray Sims, American trombonist
- Simmie Sims III, American rapper, singer, dancer, and actor
- Zoot Sims, American saxophonist
Television and Film
- Chloe Sims, English television personality
- David Sims (director), New Zealander film director
- Elliot L. Sims, Canadian film and television screenwriter
- Jeremy Sims, Australian actor
- Joan Sims, British actress
- Molly Sims, American actress and swimsuit model
- Tim Sims, Canadian actor
Writing
- Bennett Sims (author), American novelist
- George Frederick Sims, English bookseller and writer
- George Robert Sims, British journalist and author
- Gill Sims, British author and blogger
- Guy A. Sims, American author
- Judith Sims, American journalist, music critic, and magazine editor
- Marian McCamy Sims, American writer
Visual Arts
- Art Sims, American graphic designer and art director
- Charles Sims (painter), British painter
- Sheryl Sims, American quilter
Other
- Howard Sims, African American architect, businessman, and philanthropist
- Jonathan Sims, British horror writer, voice actor, musician, and game designer
- Kayla Sims, American YouTuber
- Monica Sims, British radio producer
- Ronald Hubert Sims, British architect and artist
Business and economics
- Christopher A. Sims, American economist
- Cliff Sims, American entrepreneur and author
- Ed Sims, New Zealander businessman
- William Dillwyn Sims, English industrialist and artist
- Zach Sims, American entrepreneur
Military
- Amor L. Sims, American US Marine Corps officer
- Charles Sims (RAF officer), English military pilot
- Douglas Sims II, US Army general
- John Joseph Sims, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Sims, American admiral after whom several ships were named
Politics
- Alexander D. Sims, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Barbara Sims, American politician
- Betty Sims, American politician
- Brian Sims, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Carl Sims, American politician
- Chuck Sims, American politician
- Edgar A. Sims, American politician
- Freddie Sims, American politician
- Francis Sims, British trade unionist.
- Jinny Sims, Indo-Canadian politician and former union activist
- Katherine Sims, American politician
- Kathleen Sims, American politician
- Littlepage Sims, American politician
- Lonnie Sims, American politician
- Thetus W. Sims, American politician
- William H. Sims (American politician), American politician
- William P. Sims, American politician
Scholars and academics
- Alexandra Sims, New Zealander professor of law
- Elisabeth Hoemberg, Canadian historian, born as Elisabeth Sims
- Kelly Sims, now Kelly Sims Gallagher, American international affairs scholar
- Michael Sims, American non-fiction writer
- Robert Page Sims, American academic, civil rights leader, scientist, and college president
Science and medicine
- Brailey Sims, Australian mathematician
- Charles Sims (mathematician), American mathematician
- J. Marion Sims, American surgeon
- John Sims (taxonomist), English physician and botanist
- Kenneth Sims (geologist), American geology professor
- Oliver Sims, British computer scientist
- Stacy Sims, exercise physiologist, author, and women's health and fitness advocate
- Stella James Sims, American science professor
Sport
American football
- Barry Sims, American football player
- Ben Sims, American football player
- Billy Sims, American football player
- Blake Sims, American football player
- Bud Sims, American football coach
- Cam Sims, American football player
- Ernie Sims, American football player
- Jeff Sims, American football player
- Jimmy Sims, American football player
- Johnny Sims, American football player
- LeShaun Sims, American football player
- Marvin Sims, American former football player
- Phillip Sims (American football), American football player
- Quentin Sims, American football player
- Rudy Sims is a Canadian football player
- Terry Sims, American football coach
- Tom Sims (American football), American football player
- Tommy Sims (American football), American football player
Basketball
- Jaylen Sims, American basketball player
- Jericho Sims, American basketball player
- LaTonya Sims, American basketball player
- Lazarus Sims, American former basketball player
- Willie Sims, American-Israeli basketball player
Cricket
- Albert Sims, Australian cricketer
- Gareth Sims, Zimbabwean former cricketer
- Ilenia Sims, English cricketer
- Jim Sims, English cricketer
Other
- Alexander Sims (racing driver), British racing driver
- Anthony Sims Jr., American boxer
- Ashton Sims, Australian rugby league footballer
- Bella Sims, American swimmer
- Dave Sims, Seattle-based sportscaster
- Jack Sims, English footballer
- Jess Sims, Welsh bowls player
- John Sims (footballer), English former professional footballer
- Josh Sims (footballer), English professional footballer
- Josh Sims (lacrosse), American professional lacrosse player
- Korbin Sims, Australian rugby league footballer
- Landon Sims, American baseball player
- Leo Sims, American baseball player
- Lucas Sims, American baseball player
- Lyndon Sims, Welsh rally driver
- Natalie Sims (swimmer), American Paralympic swimmer
- Odyssey Sims, American basketball player
- Ruan Sims, Australian rugby footballer
- Sanders Sims, American field hockey player
- Shane Sims, American ice hockey defenseman
- Toby Sims, English footballer
- Tom Sims, American snowboarding pioneer
- Tony Sims, American mixed martial artist
Other
- Dorothy Sims (disambiguation), multiple people
- Henry Sims (disambiguation), multiple people
- James Sims (disambiguation), multiple people
- P. Hal Sims, American contract bridge player
- Ray Dell Sims, American serial killer
- Steve Sims (disambiguation), multiple people
- Terry Melvin Sims, American convicted murderer
- Thomas Sims, subject of a notorious American fugitive slave case
- Vickie Sims, priest
- William Edward Sims, American lawyer