List of Famous people with last name Simmonds
Millicent Simmonds
Millicent "Millie" Simmonds is a deaf American teen actress who starred in the 2017 drama film Wonderstruck and the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place. For both films, she was nominated for several awards for best youth performance. In television, she appeared in Andi Mack in 2018 and in This Close in 2019. She appeared in A Quiet Place Part II, which had a world premiere in March 2020 and is scheduled to be commercially released in September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ellie Simmonds
Eleanor May Simmonds, OBE is a British Paralympian swimmer competing in S6 events. She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Great Britain, despite being the youngest member of the team, at the age of 13. In 2012, she was again selected for the Great Britain squad, this time swimming at a home games in London. She won another two golds in London, including setting a World Record in the 400m freestyle, and a further gold medal at the Rio Paralympics in 2016, this time setting a world record for the 200m medley.
Wayne Simmonds
Wayne Simmonds is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Simmonds has previously played for the Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres. He is known to his teammates and fans by the nickname "Wayne Train".
Sam Simmonds
Samuel David Simmonds is an English rugby union player for Premiership Rugby side Exeter Chiefs. His position of choice is back row forward. Sam grew up in Teignmouth, Devon and played for Teignmouth RFC for most of his youth. After graduating through their academy, Simmonds made his Exeter Chiefs debut in November 2012.
Megan Tapper
Megan Tapper is a Jamaican athlete competing in the sprint hurdles. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics reaching the semifinals. She also represented her country in the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London where she made it to the semi-finals. In 2018, she competed at the Commonwealth games finishing 7th in the final. In 2019, she was a member of the Jamaican shuttle hurdles relay in Yokohama, Japan as well as the team in Doha, Qatar at the world championships where she made the final in the 100m hurdles.
Posy Simmonds
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.